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Offline Gunslinger

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« on: March 01, 2007, 03:33:46 PM »
Ok so I'm scanning the tube and I stop briefly at CNN and at the end of a report the guy says "of the $110 Billion in relief approved for hurricane Katrine about half has allready been spent"

Now I understand it allways costs the govt more to do something than a private firm but still.

We've spen 65 BILLION and from what I hear there's not much improvment.

How many houses can you build for a Billion dollars.

You could build 10K  $100000 priced homes. for a Billion.  TEN THOUSAND HOMES!  and that's brand new from scratch type homes.

I know homes sell for alot more than that now adays but if you got a builder to do it on contract and they knew they were making X profit where's the hitch?  and that's just 1 of 110 Billion alotted.  

Not to mention all that construction has to be a kick start for the local economy.  It requires alot of workers.  Those workers need food and places to stay and so on.

There really needs to be some more oversight in this that all this money isn't being pissed into the gulf.

Lastly I havn't calculated nore know if some of that cost is being put into rebuilding the levies.
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« Reply #1 on: March 01, 2007, 04:04:17 PM »
You can buff up a **** all you want, but...
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« Reply #2 on: March 01, 2007, 05:27:47 PM »
Reason 150 bajillion why you don't want the government to have your money.
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Offline RAIDER14

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« Reply #3 on: March 01, 2007, 05:58:51 PM »
The insurance companies are screwing over the people hit by Katrina
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« Reply #4 on: March 01, 2007, 06:03:54 PM »
Yeah, damn those insurance companies for not giving out money they are not contractually bound to.

DAMN THEM TO HELL.
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« Reply #5 on: March 01, 2007, 06:04:57 PM »
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The insurance companies are screwing over the people hit by Katrina


Who needs insurance companies when the federal govt is forking over enough cash to rebuild everything from scratch it seems.

Other than that those who don't have the coverage arent covered.  I havn't heard anything otherwise how people are getting screwed by them.
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« Reply #6 on: March 01, 2007, 07:08:18 PM »
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Yeah, damn those insurance companies for not giving out money they are not contractually bound to.

DAMN THEM TO HELL.


Oh but they are contractually bound, State Farm lost the first one in Mississippi.

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« Reply #7 on: March 01, 2007, 08:01:16 PM »
One billion dollars??

Guess we know who is in charge of that operation

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« Reply #8 on: March 01, 2007, 09:28:43 PM »
I blame Bush for "re-routing the Hurricane".
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« Reply #9 on: March 01, 2007, 09:50:47 PM »
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Ok so I'm scanning the tube and I stop briefly at CNN and at the end of a report the guy says "of the $110 Billion in relief approved for hurricane Katrine about half has allready been spent"

Now I understand it allways costs the govt more to do something than a private firm but still.

We've spen 65 BILLION and from what I hear there's not much improvment.

How many houses can you build for a Billion dollars.

You could build 10K  $100000 priced homes. for a Billion.  TEN THOUSAND HOMES!  and that's brand new from scratch type homes.

I know homes sell for alot more than that now adays but if you got a builder to do it on contract and they knew they were making X profit where's the hitch?  and that's just 1 of 110 Billion alotted.  

Not to mention all that construction has to be a kick start for the local economy.  It requires alot of workers.  Those workers need food and places to stay and so on.

There really needs to be some more oversight in this that all this money isn't being pissed into the gulf.

Lastly I havn't calculated nore know if some of that cost is being put into rebuilding the levies.


They claim Louisiana is the most corrupt state in the nation for a reason.

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« Reply #10 on: March 02, 2007, 04:28:07 AM »
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Yeah, damn those insurance companies for not giving out money they are not contractually bound to.

DAMN THEM TO HELL.


State Farm was fined several billion dollars for Katrina insurance fraud.
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« Reply #11 on: March 02, 2007, 07:52:53 AM »
a billion dollars is nothing, the cowboys new football field costs one billion dollars.
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« Reply #12 on: March 02, 2007, 08:22:21 AM »
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a billion dollars is nothing, the cowboys new football field costs one billion dollars.


A shame their team sucks.
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« Reply #13 on: March 02, 2007, 09:12:01 AM »
The insurance companies should live up to their contracts.. the government should stay out of the whole mess except to make sure the insurance companies live up to their legal contracts.

This is what happens when government gets involvec..  billions are spent in feel good do nothing cluster f....s  and in the end..  all the little baby birds are still cheep cheep cheeping for more.


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« Reply #14 on: March 02, 2007, 09:46:40 AM »
Well, if you can't beat em......join em!

Anybody want to start a construction company with me?
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