Klarinet Archive - Posting 000012.txt from 2005/09

From: Ed Wojtowicz <ewoj@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] OT: Re: evacuations from New Orleans
Date: Fri, 02 Sep 2005 08:49:44 -0400


On Sep 2, 2005, at 8:17 AM, R. Williams wrote:

> Then the finale; how much will it cost. Even if the state and
> local governments are determined, they must compete with people
> such as Kennedy and his billion dollar hole digging project in
> Massachusetts for money! Louisiana is neither rich nor politically
> powerful.

Well......I am sure there are a lot more issues and people to blame
for the money drain. From an article in the Guardian:

A year ago the US army corps of engineers proposed to study how New
Orleans could be protected from a catastrophic hurricane, but the
Bush administration ordered that the research not be undertaken.
After a flood killed six people in 1995, the Congress created the
Southeast Louisiana Urban Flood Control Project. Operated by the
corps of engineers, levees and pumping stations were strengthened and
renovated. In 2001, when George Bush became president, the Federal
Emergency Management Agency issued a report stating that a hurricane
striking New Orleans was one of the three most likely potential
disasters - after a terrorist attack on New York City. But by 2003
the federal funding essentially dried up as it was drained into the
Iraq war. By 2004, the Bush administration cut the corps of
engineers' request for holding back the waters of Lake Pontchartrain
by more than 80%. By the beginning of this year, the administration's
additional cuts, reduced by 44% since 2001, forced the corps to
impose a hiring freeze. The Senate debated adding funds for fixing
levees, but it was too late.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/katrina/story/0,16441,1561356,00.html

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