Government should cut spending to offset Katrina costs
Fox News
by Radley Balko
09/21/05
President Bush recently announced a massive spending project to rebuild New Orleans, including a down payment of more than $50 billion. One of his key proposals is a modern homesteading law, in which the federal government will give state-owned land to anyone from the region who promises to build on it. The end price could well be several hundred billion dollars. Pundits and editorial boards on the left are calling for even more spending -- to rebuild the city, to compensate those who lost property in the flooding, and to address the class and race issues they say the storm exposed. I find this all very hard to swallow. In its sluggish and inept response to Katrina, government at the local, state, and federal level failed on a massive, catastrophic scale. And the response is ... we need more government?
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,170069,00.html
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
by Radley Balko
09/21/05
President Bush recently announced a massive spending project to rebuild New Orleans, including a down payment of more than $50 billion. One of his key proposals is a modern homesteading law, in which the federal government will give state-owned land to anyone from the region who promises to build on it. The end price could well be several hundred billion dollars. Pundits and editorial boards on the left are calling for even more spending -- to rebuild the city, to compensate those who lost property in the flooding, and to address the class and race issues they say the storm exposed. I find this all very hard to swallow. In its sluggish and inept response to Katrina, government at the local, state, and federal level failed on a massive, catastrophic scale. And the response is ... we need more government?
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,170069,00.html
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
Starmail - 23. Sep, 13:37
