[StBernard] Point of View

[Westley Annis]

Well, when you compound that with all the welfare we've paid for in taxes
for the last century combined, I can live with that.

MsMudpie


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> Westley,

>  

> Many people do not realize that the administrative costs for the 

> housing assistance will eat up at least 2 BILLION of the 9.2 BILLION 

> allocated for housing assistance.  Here is the really ridiculous part- 

> had the LRA even considered allowing our local mitigation plan to move 

> forward or the plan to move people out of the lowest areas of the 

> parish we would be much further ahead.  At 27000 homes (overestimate) 

> each homeowner would have gotten 74,000.00 each- couple that with the 

> wasted funds for gutting and other programs that could have been done 

> much more effectively if assistance was to be given directly to 

> homeowners and the solution to the bottleneck for assistance would have

been completely clear.

>  

> This is the kind of stuff we have been battling for our residents for 

> the last year.

>  

> Thanks for the point of view.

>  

> God Bless,

> Craig

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