SO THAT'S THE WAY IT IS HUH?

New Orleans - the forgotten city.

Most Americans are tired of hearing about New Orleans. Politicians, both Republican and Democrat, either make blatant humiliating comments about the rebuilding of NOLA - or they say nothing, and refuse to give up any of their pork barrel programs to pay for rebuilding this city.

Okay America, let me tell you something. How 'bout you let US KEEP the oil revenues from the rigs right off our shoreline and let US rebuild ourselves? Right now, YOU only allow us to have 0.5 percent of the oil revenues from offshore oil. The rest - YOU take for yourselves.

Meanwhile, New Mexico and other states get 50, some even 100% of the revenues from oil and other natural resources harvested on their federal lands. And the same Senators who benefit from those revenues routinely REFUSE to support giving Louisiana it's due. Put simply, they won't allow us to have the same deal that their own state has with reference to it's natural resources. This is the height of hypocracy and it ought to disgust anyone who discovers it.

SIX BILLION in oil revenues - thats what you get on a yearly basis AMERICA -- from our oil. You give us a pittance - and you shovel the rest into pork headed for California - a state that won't even allow offshore drilling -- nosiree.

American apathy and ignorance never ceases to amaze me. We bitch about gas prices and then turn right around and bitch about paying out dollars to repair the port where 33% of our gas transits through. How dumb is this.

This article from the Times-Picayune says it all ...

It's time for a Nation to repay the favor ...

New York was attacked by terrorists, and the US government moved heaven and hell to fix their problems. New Orleans get whacked by a hurricane - and all anyone wants to do is laugh at us for living below sea level. Well then, maybe we should seceed from the union and allow you all to "pump" green California for it's natural resources huh?

Good Luck with that!