Laurie: There are some States that just seem to keep needing help.  Take poor Louisiana.  As I writes thousands of gallons of smarmy oil are oozing their way to the coasts of this still-not-recuperated-from-Hurricane-Katrina land.  Of course States in the Gulf of Mexico will be affected but Louisiana is expected to get the brunt of the oil mishap as it enters the bayous.  And forget about the 25% of the seafood industry that comes from the coast of Louisiana – that business is over.  Maybe they can start a new one where baby ducks are washed in Dawn dish detergent.

elizabeth: You mix indifference, greed, and Mother Nature and you wonder why these disasters continue to happen.  As an animal lover, I feel for the animals that will have to die because a certain company didn’t react fast enough. And for the 11 families whose loved ones never made it home again when the oil rig blew up. After a while money is just a band-aid.  A is for apathy.

Laurie: I may be prejudiced but New York City is also worthy of a few extra bucks.  We all know about the devastation of September 11, 2001, and efforts to keep the city safe continue.  Recently some unsmart person parked a SUV in the middle of the Theatre District packed with explosives that failed to detonate.  The fool put on his hazard lights and left the keys in the ignition.  Yes, it’s almost asking for trouble to have the biggest New Year’s Eve celebration in Times Square or the largest Thanksgiving Day Parade or the most elaborate subway system in the world but that’s what makes New York City the greatest city in the universe – Attitude.  Yeah, try to stop us.  So ferget about Albany, no one is interested in bombing anything there.  Send the money to New York City.

elizabeth: New York is like the beautiful woman everyone wants a piece of. They either want to kiss her fully on her lips or suck the life out of her because they can’t really have her. As a proud native, you can’t kill New York. You can’t kill our chutzpah.  You can’t put a price on our spirit.  Now, I wouldn’t mind an apartment with high ceilings, a doorman and a rooftop pool.

Laurie: And Arizona what can we say.  You need money to drag your sorry ass into the 21^st Century.  Why are you the last one to follow the lead?  The birthday of Martin Luther King, Jr. became a national holiday without you.  Daylight savings time takes place without your participation (you really are screwing up all the time zones with that one).  And the rest of the United States will not be stopping “foreigners” to see if they are of legal status.  So let’s send a little of the funds to Arizona; we can call it the Undumb Fund.

elizabeth: I know the universe was looking out for me when I decided not to move to Arizona.  For all the spiritual and beautiful landscapes it possesses within its borders, it forgot to ask for a soul to go with it all.  I am boycotting my turquoise jewelry until that state remembers that this country was built by foreigners and that most of us just that – foreigners who call the U.S. their home.

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