--- In [email protected], gullible fool <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > No, it really isn't. Not when every working person > > in this country > > contributes about 30 cents of *every* dollar earned > > to the feds. > > Those folks are awash in money, and have borrowed > > incredible amounts > > more. Staggering amounts of money flowing to them; > > over 6.6 billion > > per day, every day. > > True, and the federal government seems to like passing > around money to the states in return for the states > having to do everything exactly the way the federal > government wants. The federal government always pays > for projects like this. This is simply the way it's > done in this country. It would have cost billions of > dollars to get the levees up to where they could have > withstood this storm. The entire budget for the state > of Louisiana is only about 16 billion dollars, and > it's likely that health care for state employees and > the poor is at least 4 billion of that. No way would > any state spend that kind of money on a project of > that magnitude.
Why do you think that it would cost billions to protect from a storm of Katrina's size? One proposal that would have cost relatively little that was shelved due to financing was to have a mobile barrier that could be moved to reinforce weakening/shattered levees. I'm sure that the Army Corps of Engineers came up with plenty more reasonably cheap ways of protecting New Orleans. ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page http://us.click.yahoo.com/dpRU5A/wUILAA/yQLSAA/JjtolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
