Stupid, Just Stupid
Mike Stuckey, Senior news editor for MSNBC, reports that Feds OK Mississippi’s Katrina grant diversion
While thousands of Mississippians who lost their homes to Hurricane Katrina remain in FEMA trailers, the state intends to spend $600 million in federal grants originally earmarked for housing on a major expansion of the state-owned port — a project that could eventually include casino and resort facilities.
Despite strong objections from housing activists and two powerful congressional Democrats, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development Secretary Alphonso Jackson on Friday sent Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour a letter approving the diversion.
Mississippi is making home owners jump through even more hoops after they have jumped through all of the hoops set up by the insurance companies trying to get houses and businesses rebuilt, and now they are diverting $600 million from a program for low cost housing to “expand” an artificial peninsula stretching out into the Gulf of Mexico, begging some hurricane to destroy it.
Look at the map, it makes no sense to have a port there. The money was to rebuild, not to build anew, not to create things for hurricanes to destroy.
What a waste of money, given all of the needs of the Gulf Coast, this wasn’t even on the list.
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ho hum, another bush travesty and corrupt practice
too many bush mistakes
too little time
Haley Barbour might be among the most corrupt of them all..
and Mississippi, which is getting screwed on this, will continue to vote for the GOP
Coastal Mississippi votes Democratic, which is one of the reasons they are getting screwed. The local Congresscritters in the affected areas are Democrats, while the rest of the state is dominated by Republicans shilling for the “good ol’ boys” who have money and don’t intend to part with it.
Part of what is going on is ethnic cleansing, the whitening of the coast and the general elimination of the “lower classes” and Catholics who live there.
And… you all are surprised about this because…??
That was rhetorical BTW.
I’ve been watching this happening through “community redevelopment authorities” since I came back to the Gulf Coast in the early ’90s. This is just the same process writ large.