[jmdickens]

http://news.theage.com.au/katrina-claim ... -1kya.html

The figure - $US3,014,170,389,176,410 ($A3.44 thousand trillion) - represents a fraction of the roughly 489,000 claims that residents and business owners filed against the federal government over damage from the failure of levees and flood walls following the devastating hurricane that hit the US Gulf Coast on August 29, 2005

[Sly Fox]

If you find yourself moving to Houston it will beco0me even more evident.

[ATrain]

Seriously, people need to stop expecting the government (and my money) to do everything for them and take matters into their own hands. Instead of waiting for the government to come and clean up, why not just do it yourself? Besides, doing it yourself means you'd probably do a better job than the government anyway...

[El Scorcho]

Meanwhile, while people are standing around waiting on the government, the church steps up...

N.C. Baptists Complete Project in Gulfport, Mississippi

Posted: Today at 2:03 p.m.
Updated: Today at 4:10 p.m.

Raleigh — Christmas trees twinkled through the windows of the homes in Gulfport, Mississippi, this year - a welcome sight two years after the state's worst natural disaster.

There were more homes to house those trees too, thanks to the work of North Carolina Baptists who descended on this port city in September 2005, and stayed to complete the most ambitious redevelopment project in the organization's history.

The "yellow hats," as they've been called in Mississippi, can look back at the past two years with considerable satisfaction. In the wake of Hurricane Katrina, the North Carolina disaster recovery operation morphed into a housing rehabilitation organization that put more than 700 Mississippi families back into homes.

They did so on the strength of volunteers - about 30,000 - mostly North Carolina men and women who drove 12 hours to help rebuild in the aftermath of the hurricane. This army of volunteers - some with construction experience, others with the gift of compassion - did what no other federal or state agency was able to: rip up damaged homes and rehabilitate them from the studs.

"There's no organization that's received more respect and appreciation than North Carolina Baptist Men," said the Rev. Chuck Register, pastor of First Baptist Church of Gulfport. "They've not only built 700 homes, they've put 700 families back together."

Source: http://www.wral.com/news/state/story/2296199/

[01LUGrad]

Seriously, people need to stop expecting the government (and my money) to do everything for them and take matters into their own hands. Instead of waiting for the government to come and clean up, why not just do it yourself? Besides, doing it yourself means you'd probably do a better job than the government anyway...

Not gunna happen. This would put the Democrats out of business.