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the G-man said:
But how much money the federal goverment gives the area is a function of decisions made by the elected represenatives of the U.S., a majority of whose constituents, if you believe that poll, don't want it rebuilt.



Do you think any elections outside of Louisiana and Mississippi are going to turn on this question? It's not even a large majority and subject to all kinds of error. By Nov. 2006, the public will be on to other nonsense to worry about. Katrina will arouse cries of 'Who?'.

What do you think the proper course is?

"Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives." John Stuart Mill America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between. Oscar Wilde He who dies with the most toys is nonetheless dead.