Remember, until 1997 FY, Louisiana, with an 18 year old drinking age, had been locked out of federal hiway funds, as well as having been locked out of land-based-grant programs until their drinking age became 21. So, until then, the state really had almost no money to do such projects; by congressional rules, no money for anything other then federal projects could be handed to them.
-----Original message----- From: Christopher Fisk [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 1 Sep 2005 12:12:37 -0500 To: The Hardware List hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: RE: [H] It's bad, really bad - Katrina > On Thu, 1 Sep 2005, Analyst wrote: > > > The issue is that the repair, maintenance, and beefing-up of the > > levees, the very levees that broke through, was STOPPED in 2004, for the > > first time in 37 years, because of the Bushies massive budget cuts. > > Why didn't the city of NO pick up where the federal government stopped? > I mean hell, it's thier Levees! > > > Christopher Fisk
