Does anyone know if this is true?

Question

Louisiana Senator, Mary Landrieu (D), is presently asking the
>> Congress
>> for $250 BILLION to rebuild New Orleans. Interesting number,
>> what does it
>> mean?
>>
>> a. Well, if you are one of 484,674 residents of New Orleans
>> (every man,
>> woman, child), you each get $516,528.
>>
>> b. Or, if you have one of the 188,251 homes in New Orleans, your
>> home
>> gets $1,329,787.
>>
>> c. Or, if you are a family of four, your family gets $2,066,012.
>>
>> Washington, D.C. ... HELLO!!! ... Are all your calculators
>> broken??
>>
>> This is too true to be very funny

Answer 1

I had no idea that hurricane survival paid so well. Maybe, I should make some friends in New Orleans. How much of that $ will the senator get?

Answer 2

The biggest money goes for infrastructure. It often costs millions of dollars just to build one mile of road. Then you have sewers, electrical, public works buildings, gas lines, etc.

But I've got a much cheaper way to rebuild New Orleans. Since Mayor Ray Nagin announced that God wants the city to be rebuilt as a "chocolate city", why don't we buy 969,348,000 pounds of Hersey's chocolate. That's 2,000 pounds for every man, woman and child. You could build a fine chocolate city with that amount of chocolate.

Since you can get a pound of chocolate for about $1, that's less than $1 Billion, giving us taxpayers a savings of $249 Billion.

Answer 3

I don't know much about what Louisiana politicians are doing on the national scale.. but I'd say the $250B is because Bush wants that much for Iraq over the next 2 years.. so it's a do you want to give it to our people or to the Iraqi war