Champagne and strippers, Louis Vatton bags and Hawaiian vacations... The feds gave money to a state that is completely undeserving. They did that knowing that much of that money would go to waste. Ten billion dollars sits waiting on a bunch of red tape to reimburse people who really don't have a neighborhood to go back to.
I know people living in FEMA trailers. I have family still in FEMA trailers. Blue tarps designed for short term use laid down at a higher cost than repairing the roof all together. $175.00 a square foot to put down blue tarps? I knew it would happen but the fact that I was right offers no conciliation. I knew that the people of Louisiana would not see much of the billions funneled into this state for repair. That's just not how it works here.
No bid contracts were offered under the guise that there was no time to wait; just millions of dollars to be wasted. I sit in disgust over the idea that all of this was predictable but nothing was done to make sure that it didn't happen. We all heard of outside oversight committees. They probably had their hand out too.
Truth is, Louisiana sucks. Social services are ultimately at fault for the people stranded after Katrina. Years of handouts instead of handups are to blame.
This state created victims not survivors. Unfortunately we dumped our victims on other states and most victims have decided that the grass is greener in other pastures as long as sticking out your hand still works. Houston faces an 18% increase in crime after Katrina. One in five murders involves an evacuee as a suspect. Over 60% of the people who migrated to Texas are still not working.
Our governor boasts of the lowest unemployment rates in LA history, 2.9%. That's largely being affected by our burdens being passed on to other kind hearted states.
I'm tired of following all of this. Spike Lee did his little biased documentary blaming the feds but the feds didn't make the victims of Katrina. Lack of ambition and a state that continued to pay them made them who they are. The saddest part is we are still allowing people to steal from the American public. We've moved from handing money out to people who refuse to have a plan to giving millions and billions to people who do have a plan ... gouging America.