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Politics : President Barack Obama -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Wharf Rat who wrote (76175)	5/26/2010 8:28:59 PM
From: tejek	Respond to of 149317

Why didn't Obama go to LA to help? He never showed his face.

To: Wharf Rat who wrote (76175)	5/26/2010 9:11:04 PM
From: one_less	Respond to of 149317

Organize some of those gator chasers in the Bayou and declare your selves a foreign nation... Could be worth 950million from the US alone. Ok maybe not. ================= The $950 million tsunami supplemental will include estimated allocations for the following activities: •$339 million for reconstruction of infrastructure, such as the construction of roads, schools, and water distribution systems; •$168 million to help victims transition back to their communities, including food aid, shelter, housing reconstruction, education, and programs that help victims recover and get back to work; •A total of $35 million for early warning and disaster mitigation efforts -- $23 million to improve the international and U.S. tsunami early warning system, and $12 million to enhance tsunami early warning and disaster mitigation in the affected countries; •$62 million for good governance and technical assistance for planning reconstruction activities and the costs of U.S. government agency operations in the region; and •$346 million to replenish costs incurred by the United States Agencies for International Development (USAID) and the Defense Department for provision of immediate relief. •The supplemental may fund debt deferment for tsunami affected countries, if necessary. georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov