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Originally Posted by Red Baron
For god sakes you are wrong on so many levels I'm not sure where to start.
First, my comment about Nagin winning the white vote was in regards to the post that stated he had won because of the displaced residents getting to vote. Tha's not true.
The state and local government DOES NOT control the levee funds. The Fed along with the Army Corp of Engineers does, so you are wrong.
And while I would NEVER want to discount a family's struggle with cancer, you are fully discounting the reality of the situation family's face that have lost everything. Our willingness and need to help is far outweighed by the resources it would take to restore someones entire life earnings. This a helluva a lot bigger than rides to and from chemo.
So are you saying although they were responsible in every way, paid taxes and paid for flood insurance, that WE (meaning family) should be the one's responsible for fixing their lives?
Where's the Government's accountability?
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So you are saying Byron is wrong because he thinks you should be looking out for your grandparents or he is wrong because facing a terminal disease is as bad(worse if you ask me) as a house flooding?
If my grandmother were alive, and she had flood insurance on her flooded house, I would be making some things happen if she were still waiting on a check two years later, over and above going and getting her and taking her to where ever she was going to be living in the interim. At 90, she does not have a lot of years to waste, she needs to be set up somewhere, if she has nothing in New Orleans, why go back?
A lot of the houses flooded, if not most, should not have been built where they were in the first place. They have been doing the same thing in California for some time, building where they should not, and there will be a ton of homeless people when it floods.
Just because someone pays the fee, and you are going to increase the tax base, does not mean a building permit should be issued. Whom do you think they paid their property taxes to? I never made out a property tax payment to the feds, but they have that Napoleonic Code and Parishes instead of Counties, so what do I know about it.
You don't really have to be surprised about crime going up along I-10 between the Crescent and Bayou Cities.
So Byron, the 911 the tree fell on was hot or something?