I'm steaming... (literally and figuratively...fever coming on right now) 3 salient points (hopefully) 1) An administrator should have his/her house in order. Sure, the levee boards and NO city government are corrupt. Japs bomb Pearl Harbor... However, whose fault is that? Years of ewe (bleat, bleat) and Murphy J. have lulled this state into a decadent laziness. It is an administrator's job, upon taking office, to clean up the crap. Look at Tom Coughlin up in New York and the cleanup job he had to do after Fassel left the organization. Basically, the finger has to point right back in the direction whence it came. She shouldn't be giving us a bunch of hooey about something it was her job to fix. The devastaion of that bitch wouldn't have been nearly as bad had the levee boards and the city government had their collective asses in gear. 2) The citizens of New Orleans mostly affected by Hurricane Katrina are MOST LIKELY NOT, by and large, hardworking Americans. The 9th Ward was devastated, and I'm sorry as hell about people losing their homes, but someone please give me a percentage of homes devastated by the hurricane that were being paid for entirely by someone's own money that they worked for. If you can do that, I'll STFU. 3) Who is SHE to be taking the federal government on? What's to stop them from pulling federal road, medical and education funding? This state is far too dependent upon handouts from the government to play hardball at this late date. Kathleen is shooting herself in the foot if she wants to go to war on this crap. Rant off!
The more she talks, the more Congress rips her a new one, the more she makes herself look bad, the more likely she'll get her ass handed to her in the next election. It's a vicious cycle, but a damn good one!
She's right about one thing, the state has to get in lock-step quickly on this. Petty local political fights will play right into the perception that you have to pay to play in Louisiana. Blanco does not control the legislature or the New Orleans City government. All she can do is try to influence them. But The Governor, the Louisiana Congressmen, the State Legislature, and local governments have to present a united front to get what we need from the federal government. The administration just presented the largest budget deficit in history and every available dollar will have to be fought for.
The citizens of Lakeview wold surely disagree. Lakeview was destroyed by Katrina, and I would bet the overwhelming majority of those citizens are hardworking and taxpaying. The Lower 9th and NOE do have a large amount of citizens on wellfare, but there are also alot of mechanics, plumbers, and tradesmen in the Lower 9th.
$1 billion for "affordable housing". That should bring N.O. back to it's feet?:dis: If you want to cripple a city and turn it's citizens into voting Zombies, all you have to do is build "affordable housing".
