I’m talking at ya’ll as a proud woman from Louisiana working hard to do my part in my state’s recovery and I’m feeling like a crack whore that’s been kicked to the curb.
Louisiana gotta $3.75 billion dollar tab by FEMA and Big Pimp Sugar Daddy wants his ducets now. Or else. Or else he will jerk our ass up off the curb and withhold my federal funding for health and hospitals, education and transportation funds. Big Pimp Daddy don’t care that
all twelve of the hospitals in the charity system are broke as of December 1st, or that 7,000 DHH employees have been laid off, or that hundreds of schools remain closed all across south Louisiana. Big Pimp Daddy don’t care if he holds back the match to rebuild our sunken roads and screwed-ass bridges.
It don’t matter to Big Pimp Daddy that there are nearly 100,000 businesses outta business across the state, 310,000 unemployment claims filed in Louisiana as of November 1st with another 12,000 per week since then.
Big Pimp Daddy thinks it’s wise to kick 150,000 evacuees in hotels to the curb on two weeks notice and to short-sheet another 200,000 renters in his worthless voucher program. That is how Big Pimp Daddy rolls holiday stylee.
Big Pimp Daddy don’t care that my state is already in the hole to the tune of $1.5 billion. Or that my lame-ass insurance don’t cover $3.5 billion in damage to state buildings. That ain’t of no concern to Big Pimp Daddy. He just wanna get paid. It don’t matter to Big Pimp Daddy that I can’t get a loan cause my bond rating got jacked. It don’t mean shit to Big Pimp Daddy that the SBA’s computers are whacked and they can’t get out a loan. It sure as hell don’t mean a thing to Big Pimp Daddy that it only took a month to wipe out our private stash…you know the one that was supposed to tide us over until Big Pimp Daddy and the SBA made good on their word.
Big Pimp Daddy got problems of his own. Like how fine he looking, or how he don’t have no money or answers, about how all dat flood water got him in trouble with the bank and they won’t lend him no more.
Well, shit. Big Pimp Daddy don’t even know how he spent all dat money. Big Pimp Daddy’s
spending like a drunken sailor on port call, but a drunken sailor got something to show for it in the morning, even if it’s just lipstick on his collar. Big Pimp Daddy don’t want us to know how dat moneys being spent either.
Big Pimp Daddy, He just want to get paid. And iffin’ we don’t come up with the scratch, $2.8 billion come 60 days, we’ll owe him another $225 million in penalties plus some sort of variable interest. Every month, 6% penalty plus interest.
Fuck you, Big Pimp Daddy. You ain’t no Pimp Sugar Daddy. You is a slope shoulder, knuckle-dragging, loan shark, cheap ass mother. Why you want to kick us when we’re down? Back in the day, this cat who used to be President called Thomas Jefferson thought enough about the city of New Orleans that he paid $15 million to a French guy for it. Hell, half this country came with New Orleans as gravy. You sucked on my big ass titties for two hundred years and you liked it. Your big oil and gas money flows between my legs and you like it. Now cut your bitch some slack…give me a fair chance to pay back what I owe or you’ll have to come on down here and take it from me. You don’t want that. You ’bout drowned the bitch and she’s pissed.
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Seriously, I don’t know anyone from Louisiana that doesn’t feel like the state should pay it’s fair share over time. But sixty days or sixty months just isn’t going to cut it. The tax base here has been decimated and we are trying very hard just to take care of our own…to put housing where the jobs are, and create jobs where the houses are. If we have to make deeper cuts into education, we will lose two more generations of Louisiana’s brightest and our hope for the future.
There are things you can do to help, there are things the President can do to help, but that is not going to happen without pressure from Congress. Get out the word, if you think that these are reasonable propositions:
–Waive all penalties and interest for the Mississippi, Louisiana and Texas FEMA payments. There is no logic in this immoral co-pay scheme when you consider this is the greatest natural disaster to hit the US
–Establish a reasonable time frame and payment schedule
–Extend the coastal boundary of Louisiana to 12 miles…equal to that of Texas and Florida. This will provide Louisiana with an additional $500 million annually in oil and gas revenues.
–Support coastal restoration of the Louisiana coast…the White House’s neglect of this attributed greatly to the damage wrought by Katrina and Rita
–Support a unified, enhanced levee system for all of south Louisiana…a collaborative effort between state and federal governments to undo the ravages of oil and gas development, take away the provincial in-fighting among parish interests and build the New Orleans system up to a Category 5 protection.
All of this will take time, money and most importantly a commitment from all of the citizens of the United States. You can do your part by communicating your commitment to this rebuilding to your congress-people. They can’t keep it on the front-burner, if they don’t know it is important to us all.
Originally Posted at New International Times
