Deploying the National Guard isn't a decision that anyone could find easy, theres huge implications and precedents set after the fact if thats done, its not just a case of asking and getting. You must understand that.

Loans and tax breaks? I appreciate you cant just leave a community, but I feel more needs to be done BY the community, rather than just throwing money at it. Id much rather see money spent investing in genuine projects, helping local voluntary agencies who know the score. Its a bottomless pit if you just throw cash at businesses, they, at the end of the day, are obliged to make money, not help the community