On 8/31/05, Eli Allen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > While I do agree that living below sea level like that is a bad idea this > was preventable. There was a major levee construction project whose funding > was cut by Bush (~$250 million) If Bush didn't cut the funding the levees > wouldn't have broke so easily like they did.
Ah great. Took all of about 10 seconds for people to start blaming Bush. While we are at it lets blame him for the residents of LA being poor and uneducated in the first place - it's all a racist plot by those awful Republicans. Give me a freaking break. I am sure that with a bit of digging I can find just as many Democratic governors, Congressmen, and Presidents who also cut funding. Don't forget that the Corps of Engineers has been embroiled in several major scandals over the past few years over their use of funds. http://www.taxpayer.net/corpswatch/LearnMore/scandals.htm is one example I quickly Googled. What about this report, released in Nov of last year - http://www.colorado.edu/hazards/o/nov04/nov04c.html It looks pretty darn accurate to me. Now why shouldn't we blame everyone who didn't pay attention to this? I bet we can find a few hundred people who fit that bill. Can you guarantee that the money the evil man Bush cut from the budget would have been used and the magical new levee would have been built before this storm hits? When was this new system supposed to have been completed by? Would it have worked? What about placing the blame on the city forcing the Mississippi to flow into one river channel? This did two things - it prevents the silt flow from building the delta which protects the city from the ocean. It also left NO in a sinking hole where every drop of water which falls on it needs to be pumped out. In fact, let's blame the Corps of Engineers who built the system of levees to prevent the river from changing course and caused NO to become a sinkhole: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0374522596/qid=1125457675/sr=8-1/ref=pd_bbs_1/104-2930600-5361507?v=glance&s=books&n=507846 Leave you damn politics out of this. Everyone and no one is to blame for this tragedy. -- Brian