Haley Barbour
Haley Barbour
Haley Reeves Barbouris an American Republican politician who served as the 63rd Governor of Mississippi, from 2004 to 2012. He was given a national spotlight in August 2005 when Mississippi was hit by Hurricane Katrina. He served as Chairman of the Republican National Committee from 1993 to 1997. Prior to holding elective office, Barbour was a lobbyist and co-founder of the Washington lobbying firm BGR Group. which he again joined after his service as governor. Barbour also co-chairs the Bipartisan...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth22 October 1947
CountryUnited States of America
We believe the damage in Mississippi the federal government should help pay for is less than $50 billion, ... It may even be in the 30s.
We know some people got trapped and we pray they are OK.
There's no recovery on Main Street, I can tell you that for sure. And in a re - in an economy like this, we don't need to be raising anybody's taxes.
The decision is 'trust fund' versus 'no more Medicaid' - and that shouldn't be a tough decision.
When I became governor, spending actually increased 28 percent my first term. Revenue increased 42 percent my first term without raising anybody's taxes. We did it because we had more taxpayers with more taxable income. That's how you get the revenue up. We did that without raising anybody's taxes.
We don't know how many fatalities there are. The official count is really meaningless.
There is incredible evidence that the casualties are more than 50, maybe 80, ... and it seems likely that that's not the end of it. It may be higher, maybe substantially.
We've actually got utility crews in from Canada.
We've turned a corner. We're well into the cleanup phase now. We're focusing on the future for the state of Mississippi.
I don't think you've seen anything like this, ... We're talking nuclear devastation.
For those people, we are working very hard that if they don't have insurance or if they don't have coverage, that we can come up with a way to help them financially, help to make them whole,
Today, I saw reporters cry, ... And mayors. And deputy sheriffs.
We're preparing for the worst and praying for the best,
I hate to say it, but my term as governor lasts for 2 1/2 more years, and for 2 1/2 more years I'm going to be standing in front of you saying: Be patient, ... Life as usual in Mississippi is not something we're going to recover for a long time?. That's just a fact.