$200,000 per person????

[KaGee]

Somebody has put the math to the amount of $$ Bush has pledged to NO and surrounding area and it comes out to about $200,000 per displaced person. I just heard this on the radio and will look for the source.<br /><br />Am I missing something here??

 

[WillyBWright]

Re: $200,000 per person????

$2,000 debit cards for each person, $198,000/person to the bureaucracy. Paperwork is expensive! Then it all gets recycled into toilet paper.

 

[Limited-Time]

Re: $200,000 per person????

Originally posted by WillyBWright:<br /> $2,000 debit cards for each person, $198,000/person to the bureaucracy. Paperwork is expensive! Then it all gets recycled into toilet paper.

Yah, sounds about right.........

 

[deputydawg]

Re: $200,000 per person????

2,000 per person. Not quite enough to start over but close.

 

[jtexas]

Re: $200,000 per person????

Somebody's gonna have some real unpleasant work to do in two-three months time. But couldn't they save some money and use labor from Angola?<br /><br />anybody remember that line from...what movie was it...Patton, maybe...about "shovelling **** in Louisiana"?

 

[KaGee]

Re: $200,000 per person????

Originally posted by deputydawg:<br /> 2,000 per person. Not quite enough to start over but close.

Got no problem with that DD... except for the local scumbags in Houston trying to welch in on the deal themselves. <br /><br />But, $200,000.00??? For what??<br /><br />Quick send a Hurricane to Ohio... I know how to use $200,000.00!

 

[Boomyal]

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Originally posted by jtexas:<br /> anybody remember that line from...what movie was it...Patton, maybe...about "shovelling **** in Louisiana"?

"......then you can tell your grandkids that you didn't spend the war shoveling **** in Louisiana"<br /><br />OR<br /><br />"......then you won't have to tell your grandkids that you spent the war shoveling **** in Louisiana"<br /><br />Something along those lines, anyway!

 

[KaGee]

Re: $200,000 per person????

Originally posted by jtexas:<br /> But couldn't they save some money and use labor from Angola?

How about some of them illegals from Mexico???<br /><br />Opppps....! Is that racist???

 

[jtexas]

Re: $200,000 per person????

kagee, $200,000/person for shoveling **** in Louisiana...which is just my clever way of saying, pump out the sewage, clean up, disinfect, clear out the gangbangers, rebuild, meanwhile you got to protect, feed, clothe, house and move people around (airlines ain't donating all that fuel). yada yada yada.

 

[tommays]

Re: $200,000 per person????

my wife just had to set up and aparment for a coworker who is comeing in from out of state for 6 months<br /><br />the short term rent is the normal insane 2000 some odd dollars per month for a 1 bedroom<br /><br />a furnished was a 3000 a month<br /><br />so buying knock down stuff at k-mart,wallmart ect really just the bare min and some startup supplys was a nother 2000 dollars<br /><br />so thats about 14000 dollars with out food and utilties for 6 months for 1 person<br /><br />so its really not to hard to see when you figure out how much its going to cost just to clean it up<br /><br />tommays

 

[Limited-Time]

Re: $200,000 per person????

Depends where ya live. Around here you can get a 3 bed room house for less than $500 a month. If your willing to settel on a trailer home it's more like $250 to $300 a month. Big differance between Long Island and Upstate South Carolina.

 

[txswinner]

Re: $200,000 per person????

Well supposedly it was like $1,600,000.00 per family effected in WTC. Bottom line most of the money goes to big operations like building owners and the contractors doing the work with a little here and there for paybacks.

 

[rodbolt]

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thats what I would like to see, all the flooded areas to be decontaminated and razed and allowed to return to swamp. in return each verifiable head of household gets a check for 150K and a new car, domestically built of course. would save the taxpayers a mint, would clean up the environment, and would prevent a repeat of this event.

 

[Kenneth Brown]

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Pat them if you want to, but please take them from Texas and move them to NC.

 

[Kenneth Brown]

Re: $200,000 per person????

Pay them if you want to, but please take them from Texas and move them to NC.

 

[SoulWinner]

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Hey wait a minute. If I get this job next week, I WILL be shoveling sh*t in Louisiana. And you know what? I'd rather be shoveling crap in LA than in a war zone..........uuuhhhhhhh....oh well..never mind.

 

[rodbolt]

Re: $200,000 per person????

hahahah nah we leave them in texas. yall need the extra taxpayers. actually with 150K they may be able to buy a 2 bedroom town house in my area. <br /> I just wonder how many would burn through it with colt 45 and kools and be on welfaare in a year again. some would buy a house and relocate some would relocate and be broke in a year. but from a strictly economic stand point it will be cheaper to buy out the residents of the flooded area and allow it to return to marsh land.

 

[treedancer]

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anyboy ever think that they like living in NO?

 

[dakk1]

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but from a strictly economic stand point it will be cheaper to buy out the residents of the flooded area and allow it to return to marsh land.<br /><br />Of course that makes way too much sense therefore not even an option. This will happen again. Only question is when.<br /><br />Dave..

 

[txswinner]

Re: $200,000 per person????

Rodbolt and dakk1, you guys know better than to expect something that makes scents. Part of NO is not below sea level. Rebuild it and move on.