Comments on: How’s That Recovery Going?

By: Bryan

Bryan — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 18:42:32 +0000

When Congresscritters have to give up their “principles” and hire personal injury lawyers to get what they paid for, you know the system is broken.

By: hipparchia

hipparchia — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 05:26:22 +0000

having lots of money really helps, whether you’re a person or a corporation.

not that very many individual people have the kind of money that’s needed to meet the countless obstacles to rebuilding that come in the wake of such widespread destruction, which is why we developed instruments like insurance,,, and emergency management…

By: Bryan

Bryan — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 04:48:57 +0000

The casinos had the cash to start rebuilding immediately and the lawyers to insure they were paid by the insurance companies. Corporations don’t have the problems that individuals have when dealing with other corporations, and I assume that casinos have other resources to speed things up.

Nagin wants to talk about helping a 1000 people, when that leaves ten times as many on the street. You can’t recover without workers, and workers need someplace to live.

By: hipparchia

hipparchia — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 04:11:17 +0000

let them eat poker chips! i hear the casinos in mississippi are back in full swing. as for the homeless leaving the shelters to set up camp on the mayor's doorstep: more power to them, i say, but with 12,000 homeless people and room in the shelters for what? 1000 or so? that first sentence is a bit disingenuous. "market value" i'll buy, but since when is $764 for an efficiency apartment fair?