This is going to help us a lot. (Well, not really)

Companies outside the three states most affected by Hurricane Katrina have received more than 90 percent of the money from prime federal contracts for recovery and reconstruction of the Gulf Coast, according to an analysis of available government data.

If there's going to be waste, fraud and inefficiency, we want it to be OUR waste, fraud and inefficiency, dammit.

Seriously, we need those jobs, and they're being contracted out-of-state, and that doesn't help us.