What Anderson fails to realize is that most of the money allocated to Louisiana is control ed by his party, The Democrats.

Anyone with a half ounce of common sense knows when money is piled on anyone or anywhere, There will be someone their to steal it.

A Friend who grew up in a poor neighborhood in New Orleans retired from a recent trip reporting that things in poor areas are very bad, and a lot of folks are getting little or no help.

More incompetence (and expensive incompetence at that!)
from Bush & co. Is anyone surprised?

So much for the CEO President. Guess what, the company is going broke.

But lets not talk about this fiasco! No we need to talk about how Iran is going to end our way of life any moment, and how the GOP is suddenly going to secure our borders.

People who don’t want their tax money to help rebuild after Katrina have a wide selection of nations to which they can move. Perhaps libertarians should vote with their feet?

And this Anderson is why I don't like Democrats either. See a problem, they too fling cash at it.

How about the fact that democrats realize that people might need to be taxed to pay for some of these projects?

That's fine, but cut out all the other useless shit (this goes for you too Anderson). We have such a ginormous government that it can't even do what it is supposed to do under the Constitution.

How about the fact that democrats realize that people might need to be taxed to pay for some of these projects?

Mars, bitches!

Okay, my mistake--you *did* mean to be callous. I stand corrected.

People who don't want their tax money to help rebuild after Katrina have a wide selection of nations to which they can move. Perhaps libertarians should vote with their feet?

What do you do if you live in an earthquake zone, fire zone, and an avalanche prone area (think Malibu)? Do we add or muliply the quintupling so that taxes are 15x or 125x higher?

Howzza about we quintuple both the income and real estate taxes of all people who live within three miles of a hurricane-susceptible coastline? Call it a "user fee".

Then we can impose similar fees on those who live in earthquate zones, forest/brush fire zones, flood zones, avalance zones, etc.

The appeal of really messing up the anthill I find, somehow, attractive!

As for the misieries of the Katrina victims, a large brunt of the blame lies with the government, not me.

Steve, that sounds terribly callous (which I'm sure you didn't intend). I was lucky enough to live 100 miles inland from the Miss. Gulf Coast, but I just spoke yesterday to another person who lost his home down there.

You're too smart to imagine for a moment that most victims will see even 1% of $400,000. The money will surely go where it usually goes--which itself sufficiently fits your critique, without your having to seem so indifferent to the miseries suffered by Katrina's victims.