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To: Jay who wrote (41002)	9/8/2005 12:44:25 PM
From: BWAC	Respond to of 306849

Halliburton doesn't work cheap. <How could $10B be used up so quickly? There is barely any progress so far..>

To: Jay who wrote (41002)	9/8/2005 12:53:17 PM
From: Lizzie Tudor	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 306849

Is this the money chargedback for the National Guard services? Like those amphibious vehicles, those had to be expensive? If there are no payments for guard personnel, then I agree with you, the 10 billion should still be available.

To: Jay who wrote (41002)	9/8/2005 11:08:37 PM
From: Tradelite	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 306849

re:<<How could $10B be used up so quickly? There is barely any progress so far..>> Where are you getting your information about what this relief effort is costing and how many public resources are being put into it? I don't have time to quote the entire September 8 Washington Post edition to you, but there are long stories in there about survivor rescues (some successful, some thwarted by stubborn Gulf Coast residents who keep wanting air-drops of water and food--and are being catered to, up to a point--but who absolutely refuse to leave their homes). These rescues are being conducted by Air Force para-rescue teams who are lowering themselves by helicopter cables into flooded homes to get living people out. Then there is the story about the U.S. Navy ship up pulled up next to the levee that broke near the poorest and most flooded Ninth Ward neighborhood in New Orleans and meeting up with resistance from "distrustful" residents who still won't leave. What could really make some taxpayers upset was the statement by an Air Force guy who said "in incredible amount" of drug paraphernalia is being found in flooded New Orleans homes. He dropped down to try to rescue people in a flooded house and was met with a guy armed with a knife. Seems the knife-guy was running a meth lab. Reportedly, these "dangerous" victims are plentiful.