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...plus one for every state taking in evacuees. For months and perhaps years to come, those codes will be used by the Federal Government to pay for, and keep track of, the billions of dollars required to rebuild. The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) will end up reimbursing the Coast Guard for fuel used to power helicopters in rescue missions, the city of New Orleans for the overtime of its police and fire departments, and Houston for the costs of housing evacuees in the Astrodome...
...billion on trailers and temporary homes. And that is just the beginning. Shortly after Labor Day, the Bush Administration asked Congress to sign off on an additional $51.8 billion--roughly what the U.S. spends in Iraq each year. Unlike the Persian Gulf, though, the funds earmarked for the Gulf Coast were expected to last a month or two. House Republicans were so spooked by the size of the request that the White House dispatched Budget Director Joshua Bolten to Capitol Hill on Sept. 7, where he made an unusual, late-evening appeal to nearly 200 skeptical Representatives...
...priority. Neither side of the aisle has seemed capable of demonstrating fiscal prudence and compassion simultaneously, while the President, hobbled by a $331 billion budget deficit, an unpopular and expensive war in Iraq, and an official admission that he mishandled the initial crisis, could neither afford his Gulf Coast largesse--nor afford not to extend...
...these people [in the Gulf Coast] didn’t have money to get out of town, and that, in itself, is an issue related to poverty,” Beasley said. “The charities we plan on donating to are helping hurricane victims, although they have track records of helping other people...
...Before Katrina this area was hardly forgotten. The Mississippi Coast had experienced an economic boom in the past several years. Real estate values were skyrocketing and major casino chains from Las Vegas were building resorts along the water. All of that is gone. The rich white vacationers from New Orleans have left. What remains is a desperate population of working class folk trying to piece their lives back together...