Slow Pace Of Housing Repairs

I may go shopping for a table and chairs tomorrow. The former one was ruined by the leaking in my ceiling in that room during the hurricane. It's hard to believe that more than 7 months after the storm I am still in the process of replacing furnishings and having work done to make repairs on the house. But with over 1 million people suffering damage, and too few stores open (for the furniture) or with furniture, and with so few contractors for all the work, it really isn't so unusual after all.
My home still need gutters and the siding beneath them that was blown off in the storm. I also have work to be done in my great room ceiling, screens to be redone, locks on new fence gates installed, and a shed door fixed. That's it. Everything else (I will spare you the list) has been fixed. It's about $25, 000 of work.
When I look in my neighborhood I still see much damage and in other areas that had more severe damage some homes look just as they did after the storm. The federal and local government made huge mistakes in recovery, in that they did not solicit thousands of contractors and workers to come here. I think instead of wasting hundreds of millions of dollars on giving people trailers to live in or in paying for hotels for months (months after the storm some people are still living in hotels paid for by the government), the government should have done the following to speed recovery and to get people back into their homes (where they prefer to be).
Uh...you may call this the Jim Recovery Plan, as I have not heard anyone else suggest it.
1) Send military construction crews to the city to fix public buildings. This would get those up and running and prevent private contractors who are needed for home construction, from being used for public building rehabilitation.
2) Actively recruit private contractors and construction workers to do work on homes here. I suggest that the government use the money it has wasted so far to pay contractors a $5000 a month bonus to come and workers an extra $1000 per month. This would have flooded the market with construction crews (the government would certify each eligible contractor and worker as competent based on state licenses and work history records) who would have finished repairing most or all homes by now.
These workers could stay in some of the verify expensive trailers the government has been giving private citizens. The cost to the government- far less than the current one. Anyway..no one asked me for any ideas. I'll be amazed if the people living in flimsy trailers (that can be easily blown over and apart by another hurricane) are out of the trailers before the start of the next, imminent, hurricane season.
Get ready to tune that radio of yours. News from Brazil is that the local prostitutes there are getting their own radio station. According to project coordinator Sandro Correia, The Association of Prostitutes of Bahai state, the hookers have won government permission for the station. "We are not going to apologize for prostitution but are going to struggle for the dignity of the profession," said Sandro. The idea is to feature programs about hookers and to discuss issues such as human rights, social questions, and sexual abuse. "Working girls" and professional broadcasters will staff the station.
Hmmmmmmm I wonder if the ladies will give out their numbers and free coupons....just a thought....not a request...