Where’s the money? More broken promises.

Well, we thought construction for the Gulf Coast was going to happen. The outrage was palpable, the politicians heard it; the funding would follow the outrage. The allocations were made, it was just a matter of getting the funding. On Saturday I read that grants that were supposed to be available for people to make their rebuilt homes storm-proof (forgetting the question of whether that’s even possible) are no longer available (Times-Picayune, May 19, 2007). In the same paper, I read that in order for Bush to not veto a war-funding bill that had a time-table for troop withdrawal from Iraq, Democrats sacrificed $1.3 billion item for Gulf Restoration from the bill. So the Dems sacrificed Louisiana in order to give Bush all the money he wants for more war—so troops would start to come home by July.