Thus if you answer in Insurance you like Bush have no answer or help. This was the worst natural Disaster we EVER had in America. 500,000 homes were destroyed and the vast majority are owned by low income people that simply do not have the resources or credit to rebuild without help. WHERE IS THE HELP? For $100 Billion we could build 500,000 homes at $200,000 per home. We will spend $170 Billion in Iraq this year on a failed war!

Again this is NOT the governments problem. If they didn't have insurance that's on them. Get a clue. If your too poor to afford fire insurance and your house burns, do you honestly think the government will help you rebuild it?

Mmkay, Col. The fact is homeowner's insurance is not as expensive as you're making it out to be, unless of course you live in an area where your property is prone to wash off into the ocean or flood. There, again, is a good case TO FIND SOMEWHERE ELSE TO LIVE.

You're actually saying that if a person can't insure their home that the government should insure its value for them? Without any contract, or government program, or terms set before the destruction of the home? The government, using our tax dollars, basically says "Oh, yeah, we can spot you if anything happens."

Bullshit, frankly. They are saying a LARGE part the money paid in $2000 checks to people for 'survival' money ended up going to non-essentials. Some people they caught were spending it in the "champagne room" of strip bars. If the government worked the way you described there'd be a mysterious fire going in every neighborhood, 24/7.

The fact is that many or most of the people who were camped out in the convention center didn't own their own home at all. Should we give new homes to people who rented? How do you determine whether a person who DID own a home was negligent or just too "poor" to pay for insurance for their SHELTER in life.

You can't argue this Col, unless you are a communist or something. The idea that every time someone forgets to pay their homeowner's insurance and their house burns down WE have to pay for a new one? Bullshit. If Habitat for Humanity wants to do that with donated funds, God bless them, but you don't force charity at gunpoint unless you're a friggin fascist.

Col

The money to help those displaced home owners in the state of Louisiana has been here since the summer. 7.5 billion to be exact. There are 125,000 eligible applicants for the money. 90 or so thousand have applied. The last count of people who received a settlement is 120.

Six months have passed and the organization hired by Louisiana Governor Blanco continues to promise a faster process.

I know you ignore results that do not conform to your ideals but the feds gave the state the money for uninsured homeowners to rebuild months ago. Governor Blanco paid IFC $759 million to distribute the money to the people and they have only been successful in that effort for just a few more than 100 people.

I know that is Bush's fault too. He should have never trusted a dime to the joke of a governor we have in this state.

Just John:

First the decision as to if the levies are to be built to protect the low areas from a cat 5 storm has not been made. If the levies are not built to Cat 5, no building should begin in the below sea level areas. That will require replacement land in areas that are high enough. That could cost more then the $7.5 Billion.

Second, at $150,000 per home, which today is a very modest home, it would take $75 Billion or about 10 times what you claim is available to build 500,000 homes.

Col, I dunno where you get your numbers. I read that the red cross estimated that around 350,000 homes were destroyed by Katrina AND Rita. Over HALF of those were rental properties that the people living therein wouldn't have a claim for the property anyway.

Re: your dollar amount, I already posted that $122 BILLION was allocated for Katrina relief. That's almost twice the $70 billion you cite, even if your claim wasn't totally bogus. There's absolutely, positively no federal responsibility to rebuild homes for people. Period. None. Zip.

Re: The levees, talk to your liberal friends. Had Dems and hippies not prevented them from being built 20+ years earlier, you might not have this bogus argument at all.

no building should begin in the below sea level areas.

Once again you have absolutely no clue what you are talking about. Each day Louisiana looses a football field size of land to the Gulf of Mexico. They can build levees that could withstand a category 5 storm and the problem will not be solved. A storm surge will most likely push a lot of water into the city which is moved out of the city by pumps that failed during Katrina. The problem is much larger than a levee can solve.

Second, at $150,000 per home, which today is a very modest home, it would take $75 Billion or about 10 times what you claim is available to build 500,000 homes

In the Governor's plan only 125,000 homeowners qualify for a piece of the $7.5 billion. The grants go up to $150,000. They are based on the home's pre-storm value minus any insurance/FEMA/SBA loans monies already provided to the homeowner. This is not a federal plan this money was turned over to the state and this is the result.

The current statistics on the Road Home Program are: 101,000 applicants - 34,000 of those applications have been processed - 258 homeowners have been paid.

Why is this still the problem of the federal government?

BTW - I lived in Hendersonville, TN for eight years. I am quite familiar with Lake Cumberland.

Army Corps of Engineers Colonel Steve Roemhildt said, “We are not seeing conditions at the dam that eminent failure is possible, however there are things happening at the dam that we just don't know about.” WWW Link

You must be living in a dream world. Many of these people could not afford insurance. Living in Florida I can understand WHY. For those that did have homeowners insurance the companies have refused to pay claiming the damage was done by water. That is curious since it was the WIND that caused the water to destroy their homes.

Fake col of low repute:

I was here for Andrew and all the ones after. I moved to central Florida 2 years before we were hit by three or four in a row. I was a property manager for that time and as I told you many times before most of the people in New Orleans are renters. The landlords are responsible for repairs. They choose not to do so it is their land and their business. The City of New Orleans has 650 million dollars sitting in Washington D.C. for about 2 years waiting to be claimed. More if they use what has already been given them but they are fighting at the local level on how to steal I mean use the money. Three other states were hit by katrina and they are up and running. It is not the Governments responsibility to handhold every person with a knee scrape. The Democrats and liberals in that nasty state choose to drag their feet and are losing people because of it. People moved out of the state are choosing not to go back because they are seeing what happens when you live in states run by Republicans. Things get done. Of the four states hit by Katrina only one was run by Democrats and only one has done nothing to fix the problems for their people.

You are a political hack and every time you evade the facts and spout political garbage to bash the president or the nation I will call you on it. Translation for liberals. If there is a fact that proves you wrong I will tell you. If you ignore the fact I will call you a hack. I am not trying to change your opinion on any subject but the truth needs to see the light of day someting liberals are not happy to do.

BTW all my properties were fixed in under 30 days. No government assistance, no handouts, and the insurance companies paid quickly with no complaints or foot dragging. All of my landlords are middle class people who bought a second home and rented it out to pay the mortgage so they would have a home in Florida when they retired. It is called planning.

The people in New Orleans knew the city was prone to flood for over 100 years, the government to help out the city build the levies with the best knowlege there was back then. The governemnt provids money yearly for upgrades and repairs so what happened to the money for the last 40 years of a Democrat controlled Congress? Why is it the current administrations fault that the money was wasted the last 40 years? I lived in New Orleans for a few months. Seeing how things were run there I moved out because everyone knew that if they had another hurricane like Cameale the city would be under 26 to 30 feet of water. It was part of the tour you can take where they point this fact out along with the water marks on building from that hurricane. That tour I took was in 1974, the last time I lived there was after Andrew and nothing had changed.

Your stupid idea of providing land for people to replace the land lost in the flood. Get real. Are you suggesting that the people that bought the land did not know they were in a flood zone? This was somehow a surprise? They are adults with money and the ability to pay their bills. They choose to buy the land where it was. The government does have a program for people who buy land in stupid areas and lose their homes. The government will buy the land and help them move out of the area. It seems you were wrong again O'insightful one of deep reserarch.

It seems you like to piss and moan and whine about a particular topic and then when your baseless information is proven false you run away with your tail between your legs. Later you spout off more crap and pretend like you never shouted fire in the theater at all.

You're a waste of bandwidth.

I believe I already answered this blog, months before it was posted:

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I believe I already answered this blog, months before it was posted:

Yes sir, you did, so did a lot of other people which is why he had to re-post his sillyness rather than answer the statements you and others posted.