Originally posted by sigma:
One thing I don't get is why the federal government gives $55+ Billion to help Louisana with Katrina but only gave $300 million to help with Hurricane Andrew.

I'm not trying to say that Katrina victims don't deserve it but that's, uh, quite a difference there. They're predicting approximately 4 times the economic (so we're not talking insured vs uninusred) damages that Andrew caused but they get 4 hundred times the federal aid.

Seems a little lop-sided to me.



Your point is well taken and it seems much higher than something like inflation would cause.
I'm going to suggest it is because of the political impact based on the recent Tsunami aid problem and then our very own people follow suit and complain about the federal government as well as bring race into the picture. It's like it is the new fad or something. This causes a huge reaction as the government trys to spend even more money to make people think they are doing more. They are doing the same thing in Iraq.



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