Since Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal and Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour are such big believers in keeping Federal government money out of state affairs, I’m sure they’ll soon be announcing they’re sending back the nearly $100 Billon their states have received or will receive in Federal assistance in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. Because, if we just let the free market and the private sector do its magic, unfettered by that bastard Washington D.C., Haley and Bobby are certain the levies would have magically reappeared and all the lost homes and business would have sprung right back to life. (Not to mention all the people rescued thanks to Federal help).
Those of us unlike Bobby and Haley and their minions, those of us who believe government should do (and obviously does) much more than just build bombs and hand out tax cuts, would like all that money back so it could be put to better use. Bobby and Haley can explain to their constitutents why the Free Market Fairy left all the roads unbuilt, the hospitals unrepaired, the business shuttered, and the levies left wide open for the next hurricane.