Has America paid more money for Iraq than for rebuilding New Orleans? If so, how much difference?

Answer 1

New Orleans has gotten plenty of money to rebuild. Maybe if they would get off their lazy asses and put some effort in it would be finished by now. Every other city devasted by Katrina has rebuilt and moved on.

Answer 2

Well if you count all the money the Federal Government gave to New Orleans to fix their levees for the past fifty or so years, that they used for other things (like Promoting Tourism) then it is probably close to the same dollar amount...we will get more good out of helping Iraq than giving all the criminals that lived in New Orleans a place to rob, sell drugs, and kill each other...New Orlean is and was the "Murder Capital" of the South...and should be given back to the swamp from wince it came...the only part of New Orleans to survive was the French QTR and the Garden District...because when they were built they knew not to build 10 feet below sea level...

Answer 3

It's a hard question to answer because the funds are not disaggregated to show how the money was spent.

That said, given the magnitude of the endeavor, Iraq is surely costing the American people a whole lot more than New Orleans.

In fact, I would say just the future costs of the war in terms of medical and survivor benefits will cost more than New Orleans.

Answer 4

You know what, the war in Iraq is protecting New Orleans from terrorists as well as the rest of the nation, so quit saying the the aftermath of Katrina is because of the War on Terror. The aftermath of Katrina is because their idiot mayor ignored the reports of the levees not being up to standards. It is not a racial thing either. It was not Bushes fault for what happened there. Democrats and Liberals need to stop trying to blame everything that happens on Bush. People need to step up and be held accountable.

Answer 5

According to my August 20 2007 issue of Fortune, The feds have allocated $26.6 billion but have only spent $6.0 billion through HUD , Army Corps of Engineers, And FEMA. According to reports we have spent $1 billion a month in Iraq The War has cost around $40 billion or more so as you can see, Iraq is the rat hole that is killing our finest citizen soldiers and wasting many billions of dollars that will never be replaced.

Answer 6

Yes, thank goodness.
It would seem counter productive to spend less on building a nation then on repairing a city.
New Orleans got more than it needed and more than it even asked for. The waste there under it's corrupt administration is incredible. They had a chance to end that culture of gangsterism but, they reinstalled the same mayor that failed them last time.
They don't deserve the help they got because it will go right back into preserving the cycle of poverty.

Answer 7

Of course it has, but the comparison is one akin to apples and oranges. Not that I believe that the US should be throwing millions of dollars per HOUR at the war effort in Iraq, but it cannot be compared to the rebuilding of New Orleans - very different priorities.

Answer 8

Before I answer...a couple differences. First, we bombed Iraq and do war there every day.

A hurricane wrecked New Orleans.

Second...there is still a war in Iraq.

New Orleans is a city without any hurricanes for two years now...they have resources;human, monetary, and materially. What they hell is New Orleans waiting for, a special invitation to rebuild on a flood plane below sea level?

Now to answer your question, we'll spend more on Iraq because of the differences listed above. I don't know how much more, but more.

Answer 9

I would have to say Iraq, especially if you include approx. $20 billion of Iraq's own money from the UN "Oil for Food" program. "Iraq's Missing Billions" is an eye-opening documentary that follows Ali Fadhil, an Iraqi doctor, in his efforts to track down money that was supposed to be spent on reconstruction:

"What happened to the billions of dollars of Iraqi reconstruction money entrusted to the American Coalition? In just fourteen months, the CPA burned its way through nearly $20 billion."
-- "Iraq's Missing Billions" (48 mins):
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3904382605215032226
- Also on YouTube, in six parts:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tzWk4G9NwVQ
-- If you can't view the video, but have satellite TV, you can see it starting this Sunday night on LINK TV (Direct TV, channel 375). It's airing as an episode of the "Spotlight" program. Here's the schedule:
http://www.linktv.org/programs/billions

Answer 10

Yes. What we should do is fire every Bureaucrat in D.C. Limit Congressional spending to their salaries, our National Defense, the president, his secretary, and 9 judges. That's it. Dismantle the entire mess and give all the available housing to the residents of New Orleans. We would then have 2.5 trillion a year back into Americans pockets. Where it belongs!

Answer 11

I just want to know what happened to those millions and millions of dollars Bill Clinton gave to New Orleans in the 90s for repairing the levies went.

Obviously, that money wasn't used to fix the levies.