When both the Army Corps of Engineers and New Orleans Corps of Engineers were massively short-budgeted by the feds in 03 and 04 to help subsidize Iraq;
Utah,
Maybe we should have had the cojones to ask Teddy Kennedy to give up some of his federal budget money for his Boston "Big Dig" the most expensive 7.5 miles of highway in the world. Some of that could have been allocated to New Orleans. There is always a finger to point somewhere. Did I just hear The Rev. Jesse say that Katrina was a racist plot of Repulicans to rid New Orleans of poor black people who so reliably vote democratic?
Would that liberals especially take a deep breath (you should read the sound bites coming out of DC by liberals already. Stuff happens and people screw up. One could examine the activities of the mayor and govenor in the crisis, for example. I would never want to trust the Feds to do everything right in order to save me, but maybe that's just the way I was raised. Ultimately we are better our own keepers and our brother's than the Feds (or state/local governments) are.
Just my humble $.02
Peace,
David
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