Re: {{{{[[[[Kelly & Family]]]]}}}} (was Re: messages on server not available)

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

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