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Leythos wrote:
> In article <ezDhcvKsFHA.1032@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
> dontemailme@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx says...
>> Leythos wrote:
>>> In article <eDRr1#IsFHA.3096@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
>>> dontemailme@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx says...
>>>> Leythos wrote:
>>>>> In article <#SkYUqGsFHA.4072@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
>>>>> dontemailme@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx says...
>>>>>> http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1001051313
>>>>>
>>>>> The Fed's didn't build N/O, didn't ask peoples to move there.....
>>>>> It is the sole responsibility of the state to ensure that it's
>>>>> people are safe from internal issues.
>>>>
>>>> LOL! You didn't even read the link. If you had, you would have
>>>> seen that the Feds have been responsible for the levies. And
>>>> Bush's Admin has cut funding.
>>>
>>> I did read the link and it clearly stated that the local state
>>> provided funding and the feds provided funding - the Fed's didn't
>>> provide as much funding as the state wanted, but both the state and
>>> fed's provided funding.
>>>
>>> So, here you go again - the state understood it needed work done,
>>> cheapen out on it, and blames the Feds for not providing all the
>>> funding they needed....
>>
>> "Yet after 2003, the flow of federal dollars toward SELA dropped to a
>> trickle. The Corps never tried to hide the fact that the spending
>> pressures of the war in Iraq, as well as homeland security -- coming
>> at the same time as federal tax cuts -- was the reason for the
>> strain. At least nine articles in the Times-Picayune from 2004 and
>> 2005 specifically cite the cost of Iraq as a reason for the lack of
>> hurricane- and flood-control dollars."
>>
>> "In early 2004, as the cost of the conflict in Iraq soared, President
>> Bush proposed spending less than 20 percent of what the Corps said
>> was needed for Lake Pontchartrain, according to a Feb. 16, 2004,
>> article, in New Orleans CityBusiness."
>>
>> "On June 8, 2004, Walter Maestri, emergency management chief for
>> Jefferson Parish, Louisiana; told the Times-Picayune: 'It appears
>> that the money has been moved in the president's budget to handle
>> homeland security and the war in Iraq, and I suppose that's the
>> price we pay. Nobody locally is happy that the levees can't be
>> finished, and we are doing everything we can to make the case that
>> this is a security issue for us.'"
>
> And even knowing the above, well in advance of the latest storm, the
> state did nothing to protect it's resources or people from a known
> disaster waiting to happen.
>
> Rather than question the above, how about telling me where it's
> written, in the laws, that the FED's must provide funding for state
> level projects?


"Our Mission - The New Orleans District, through partnering, provides
for navigation, flood and hurricane protection, environmental
stewardship, and other water resource needs to benefit the people of
southern Louisiana and the nation." - http://www.mvn.usace.army.mil/

The Army Corp of Engineers have been involved for nearly 204 years. The
Port of New Orleans, the redirecting of the Mississippi River and has
been done for the nation. Shipping fuel, grain, meat. It is part of
the infrastructure of the nation, not just Louisiana.

You want to ignore 204 years of history of Federal involvement. Part of
the reason New Orleans is below sea level today is the decisions of the
Army Corp of Engineers and Federal politicians.

And here is the line you keep ignoring:

And that we didn't get troops in to secure NO after the floods hit is
criminal.

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