Chris,
> I'm not proclaiming oppossition to that. Yet that is exactly what was stopped by the budget cuts. > > "Federal flood control spending for Southeastern Louisiana has been > > chopped from $69 million in 2001 to $36.5 million in 2005, according > > to budget documents. Federal hurricane protection for the Lake > > Pontchartrain vicinity in the Army Corps of Engineers' budget > > dropped from $14.25 million in 2002 to $5.7 million this year." > > > > "Both the New Orleans Times-Picayune newspaper and a local business > > magazine reported that the effects of the budget cuts at the Army > > Corps of Engineers were severe." > > As I noted, because the ACE submitted their budgets which were mostly > gutted, they didn't plan on dispersement well Look again. That was more than just cuts to the ACE. There were also cuts in (separate) flood control programs and cuts to a federal hurricane protection program for that area. Vince
