@ faithfull, the rioters caused the damage to local businesses, no one else. The local community/business owners etc should be working closely with law enforcement to bring those responsible to justice - I would if it was my business.
Surely if you're livelihood had been destroyed by local assholes its the first thing you would do. THATS where it has to start. These are, as the article says, zero % loans. Most property insurance policies wont cover your home for rioting or offer any sort of loan, far less a private business, so they are lucky any funds are being made available (and I appreciate the nightmare they must be going through) but why should the tax payer cover the cost? What about next time, next place? Again, everybody needs to play their part in that particular town, shoulder the blame and make sure it never happens again - and stop screaming about false persecution. Its getting boring....
I read the article. The fact is that the governor's ineptitude let the rioting happen by not providing the National Guard when the mayor asked for it, so in my book the governor has a great deal of responsibility in this. The loans are just too little too late. Footreads's idea of tax breaks is a step in the right direction, but more needs to be done or forget business in Ferguson and the city loses its tax base altogether. If that's the case then PB's idea makes more sense.
