Chimp "opposes a bill to allow government buyout of some destroyed homes"

[rainbow4321]

http://customwire.ap.org/dynamic/stories/K/KATRINA_FRUSTRATION_AND_FEAR?SITE=TXSAE&SECTION=US&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2006-02-12-12-31-17


Residents sense the nation's attention has turned from their Katrina-sodden lives, back to the battlefields of Iraq, the newest Supreme Court justice, the Super Bowl.

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The news out of Washington has compounded residents' frustration:
-President Bush opposes a bill to allow government buyout of some destroyed homes, a plan designed to help residents recover equity from their houses and avoid foreclosure on their mortgaged ruins. Many of the early rebuilding proposals were predicated on buyouts.

-The federal government has not committed to the costly demand that levees, which protect the low-lying city, be rebuilt to withstand a Category 5 hurricane - the most brutal kind. The existing system was largely expected to hold against a Category 3 storm, but Katrina, a strong Category 3 with winds at 125 mph, sent water through the flood walls and into neighborhoods.


-Bush's State of the Union address, which some local residents hoped would include plans for rebuilding their beleaguered city, focused heavily on Iraq. Only about 160 words of the 5,300 words the president uttered on Jan. 31 were about the Gulf Coast.

[slor]

1. If it helps anyone, other than the super rich...

he opposes it, so what else is new?

[Road Scholar]

2. Really, so what's new? nt