--- In [email protected], [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > In a message dated 9/1/05 4:36:10 P.M. Central Daylight Time, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > Again: With projects designed to prevent or mitigate > the effects of a natural disaster, it is CHEAPER FOR > THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT to pay for the projects than it > is to PAY FOR THE RELIEF EFFORT AND THE RECONSTRUCTION. > > Not to mention, in this case, having to deal with the > disruption in the oil supply. > > Major natural disasters affect the entire country, > not just the immediate areas where they happen. > > It is VERY MUCH IN THE GOVERNMENT'S INTEREST to fund > such projects. > > This is not real complicated to understand. > > > > Again the federal government did fund the project. It never intended to fund > it 100%. And when federal funding was cut by 44% it was up to the state and > local governments to make up the difference and they could have, they chose > not to. What you are proposing is the city and state refuse to take any > responsibility for their own protection and demand the federal government do it all > and if they don't we'll make you pay for the mess should one occur. That's > called blackmail. It's like a person holding a gun to his head demanding > favors.
so why don't you quote the relevant section of the law that backs up whaty you say? It's called SELA -Southeast Louisiana Urban Flooding Control Act. Surely you can look it up... (hint: i've looked it up already). ------------------------ 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/
