Monday, December 08, 2014

What We've Done for Louisiana

Next time you are in Louisiana, you should ask the locals to pick up your hotel, food, and bar-tabs.

They owe it to you...

...Many municipalities in Louisiana still had outstanding Federal Emergency Management Agency loans dating back to Hurricane Katrina. As Landrieu saw a tough re-election race approaching, she worked loan forgiveness into a Homeland Security bill. And then she crowed about debts being forgiven all around the state, courtesy of Louisiana's senior senator....

...Take, for example, St. Tammany Parish, an electorally crucial Republican suburb of New Orleans. The parish school system received forgiveness for nearly $68 million in Katrina loans last December. Then came $10 million in forgiveness for the Parish Sheriff's Office, and $14.5 million in forgiveness for the parish government....

Hundreds of millions more at the link.

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