Katrina Victims Seek Justice [$12 Trillion]

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Katrina victims swamp corps with trillions in claims

By Brad Heath, USA TODAY
WASHINGTON — Tens of thousands of people whose property was destroyed when Hurricane Katrina overwhelmed New Orleans' protective levees have filed claims demanding the government pay astronomical sums that would be enough money to make multimillionaires of everyone in Louisiana.

The Army Corps of Engineers received 247 claims from residents, businesses and government agencies seeking $1 billion or more, according to the agency. That's the tip of a very large iceberg: The corps, which designed and built the city's storm protections, faces more than 489,000 claims for the damage and deaths in the post-Katrina flooding.

The claims are so massive the government could never hope to pay them. Rather, they are the hopeful — and at times inflated — requests of people reeling from losses.

Just the top filings add up to so much money that the entire annual output of the nation's economy — $12 trillion — couldn't pay them off, according to the corps' listing. It is the first public accounting of the scale of damage demands the corps faces.

"That's totally off-the-wall," says Ashton O'Dwyer, a New Orleans lawyer handling some of the claims. He says everyone making a claim ultimately must provide evidence to back it up, "and we won't know the real total until that happens."

By comparison, the Louisiana Recovery Authority estimates that Hurricanes Katrina and Rita in 2005 together caused about $100 billion in physical damage statewide. The federal government already dedicated more than $130 billion on recovery from the hurricanes.

Most of the claims allege that the corps is to blame for the levee failures that inundated huge sections of New Orleans. A claim form is the first step in seeking compensation.

One claim alone seeks $3 quadrillion in damages, almost all of it for personal injury. That's a 3 followed by 15 zeros — about 250 times the nation's gross domestic product. ( ) A resident of a section of New Orleans that includes the hard-hit Lower 9th Ward filed another claim for $6 trillion, double the annual federal budget.

"We sort of take it all in stride," says Angela Drinkwitz, the corps' claims administrator. "We don't say there's no way this could be true."

Most claims should be filed within two years, but Drinkwitz says new claims are still trickling in.

Neither the corps nor the Justice Department would say whether they intend to pay any of the damage claims, how they will be processed or when a decision could be made. Already, at least 300 people also have sued the government over levee failures, Justice Department spokesman Andrew Ames says.

"If they'd built the levees right, they wouldn't have this problem," says Daniel Becnel, a Reserve, La., lawyer representing some of those suing the government.

The corps would not identify the people filing large claims. Officials still must sift through more than 2 tons of paperwork to weed out duplicates.

Katrina victims swamp corps with trillions in claims - USATODAY.com

Maybe they'll settle for some swimming lessons, and a shovel to start putting their lives back together.

Oh, I forgot N.O. is a Chocolate city, nuff said!

[ncmalko1]

What you said completely discredits your existence. You are complete racist and should be banned from this board. You are a sick human being. There is not an educated person in this world who doesn't know that racism is a by product of self hate. You are a sick and disgusting human being.

[ncmalko1]

I am dumbfounded by your hate and ignorance. We may disagree with our political views but you crossed the line. Some of my best friends are conservative republicans but I would never associate with a racist such as yourself.

What happened in NO was an American trajedy. For you to say, "Give em a shovel" shows how blatantly ignorant you are. But to top it off with, "Oh, I forgot N.O. is a Chocolate city, nuff said!", show you are beyond filth. True Americans hate racists like you.

I've been in heated arguements with UNGN about politics. He probably is a great guy. Though I disagree with him he has never crossed the line you crossed. If this board is OK with racist hate speech, then I want NO part of this once great board. You are simply trash

[IEATV8S]

Originally Posted by ncmalko1

What you said completely discredits your existence. You are complete racist and should be banned from this board. You are a sick human being. There is not an educated person in this world who doesn't know that racism is a by product of self hate. You are a sick and disgusting human being.

Why thank you. I take that as a compliment coming from you, someone who uses his brain as a place to put his cap!

Posting what the Mayor of N.O. has been quoted as saying certainly IS a racist statement, but since he's black, he gets a pass!

Jeeesus, I guess blacks such as Colin Powell, Thomas Sowell, B. Hussein O., Al and Jesse, and THOUSANDS of other blacks who have made it in this country have SELF HATE!

Seems only the ones that get a GOVERNMENT HANDOUT and are trying to file FALSE CLAIMS that you, I, and the rest of the American people are expected to pay for are not racists, they are jus' poo' folk trying to get along with that HDTV they LOOTED from the local Wallmart in the aftermath of Katrina!

I just love it when liberals make such blatant statements of OUTRAGE, just to show their peers that they care, have such indignation about a FACTUAL event and opinion, and forget their most precious amendment "Freedom of Speech"!

You sir, are a FAKE, PHONEY and FRAUD!

Please respond, as apparently Qwirk, qwirker and 86 no longer have any interest in spewing their liberal tripe!

Gosh Boys, it's lonely here without you guys fighting me! Hell, even Red has little interest anymore!

[ncmalko1]

I may be stupid. I may be a fraud. But you are a racist. Not an ounce of remorse in you. RACIST AND PROUD. Mods please ban this person. Argueing politics is reasonable. Racist hate speech can not be accepted on a public board that children have access to.

[ncmalko1]

So you say the factual event is that because people are black they steal TV's. Ban this racist please!

[IEATV8S]

Originally Posted by ncmalko1

So you say the factual event is that because people are black they steal TV's. Ban this racist please!

Seems I hit a nerve on you! Can't fault a black for doing anything wrong! Why not? I can fault a white for doing something wrong!

The problem is blacks have taken up their own identity as AFRICAN AMERICAN. What about the black from the Caribbean. I know many Dominican's here in NY that take great umbridge when someone calls them AFRICAN.

MLK, didn't want his people to be SEPARATED, he made it a point to have blacks called Americans, NOT black Americans, but Americans.

Even B. Hussein at the Democratic Convention made the same point, to paraphrase "There should be no BLACK Americans, no Latino Americans, no Chinese American's, there should only be American's!"

BTW, this speech by B. Hussein was the BEGINNING of his being considered PRESIDENTIAL!!! Why not check it out, or don't you know how to use Google?

Seems most everyone has forgotten this.

I see you have made a complaint against me. I have been asked to calm it down, and being I LIKE the Mods here, I will TRY to do that, but you sir, are a CRYBABY, and a poor specimen of a man!

You can't argue a HOT TOPIC without your liberal bias and BS fogging your mind!

As I said, you forget about the FREEDOM OF SPEECH amsndment. Try debating the point instead of running off with your tail between your legs! Show me FACTS that disput what I have said!

Why not argue THIS video? Be very interested to see what your take on it is! Funny, I didn't see any WHITE police doing this, perhaps they did! Can you show me at least a LINK to such things?

YouTube - Cops loot Wal*Mart after Katrina in New Orleans

[ncmalko1]

Freedom of speech? You are able to say ignorant racist things in our country. It's just 90% of the country thinks you are a dirt bag racist when you say what you say. Your rant made no sense. What was it that Obama did wrong?

A few black people did steal TV's. But the way you said it was that ALL black people steal TV's and sue people. I know there are several black people that post on this board and I apologize to them for your ignorance. I could only imagine what it would be like to live in a country that in times of trajedy (Katrina) people make racist jokes.

All I want you to do is be prepaired to explain to God why you are filled with such anger and racism.

[IEATV8S]

Originally Posted by ncmalko1

Freedom of speech? You are able to say ignorant racist things in our country. It's just 90% of the country thinks you are a dirt bag racist when you say what you say. Your rant made no sense. What was it that Obama did wrong?

A few black people did steal TV's. But the way you said it was that ALL black people steal TV's and sue people. I know there are several black people that post on this board and I apologize to them for your ignorance. I could only imagine what it would be like to live in a country that in times of trajedy (Katrina) people make racist jokes.

All I want you to do is be prepaired to explain to God why you are filled with such anger and racism.

That's what FREEDOM OF SPEECH is all about! You think I'm a racist, I think I tell the TRUTH about our racial problems. Guess, just like anything in this world it comes down to one's PERCEPTION!

Imus gets fired for making a joke about nappy headed ho's, Al gets a pass on calling a Jew in Harlem an interloper. No one died over Imus's remark, but someone DID die over Sharpton's remark!

Did you look at that KATRINA tape I posted? Count the white people looting (YES, there are white people looting) and count, BESIDES the 2 female black police officers, and tell me what the different numbers are!

You're delusional if you think that blacks should get a free pass because they are black! Crime sees no color, IT'S CRIME!

Put your hurt feelings and phoney indignation back in your pocket, you aren't impressing the liberals here, and you look more like a jerk then anything else!

Obama's FAULTS were posted, I disagree with 90+ % of his positions, You apparently don't! I see he LOST tonight to the Hilderbeast! My God man, a white Liberal WOMAN, beat the black man! How can that be???

Is that racist? Did her campaign spread the rumors about Obama's race and religion? They claim they didn't, but seems that has been part and parcel of Bill's campaigns ( hell, that traitor Dick Morris has written about it many times in his books!), so one with ANY brain would wonder!

What's the presidency WORTH in $$$$$ to the Hilderbeast?

Let's see, while Bill was in office, and had his BJ affair, he requested PEOPLE donate to his LEGAL DEFENSE FUND, because he had NO MONEY.

Seems currently Bill and Hill are worth collectively 50 million dollars, give or take 10%!

Not a bad take for 8 years of smoke and mirrors, scandals every other month, and an impeachment.

He get's a min. of $100,000.00 to speak for an hour or two. If he wasn't president, how much could he get? Probably GAS money to get there and back!

I always heard that God believes in the TRUTH, If there is a God, I'm not worried, he might send me to hell, but I'll see all my old friends from the Turbo Buick Forum there! Maybe, even YOU!

[NM Tom]

Originally Posted by ncmalko1

I may be stupid. I may be a fraud. But you are a racist. Not an ounce of remorse in you. RACIST AND PROUD. Mods please ban this person. Argueing politics is reasonable. Racist hate speech can not be accepted on a public board that children have access to.

Where was the racist outrage when the Mayor of N.O. said the quote himself! And by the way, MILLONS of children could have been watching TV when he said it on national TV.

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I could have sworn I heard a herd of CRICKETS running across this thread!

[salvageV6]

I ain't going near this one until you "apologize" to Jesse Jackson and of course Al Sharpie Sharpton.

[DragulaGN]

Two if the most racist persons alive today.