Yep, it's a bottomless pit.
Bush was smart not throwing good money after bad.
Gary VanderMolen
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Here's what was happening: as we kept restructuring the levees, they kept gaining more heft.. and they sunk faster and faster.
From 1995-2001, we spent more then $240M. And I agree that cutting the budget on this item, in retrospect, could have been
reviewed. But let's see what we got.. we spent the most money imaginable after 1995, and the levees sunk -quicker- in that 6
year period then over the 20 years preceeding. Shouldn't that have told us something? It should have told us one of two
things: either this whole thing was idiotic and we should just abandon the city and realize that while it was great military
positioning for the French in 1712, it's stupidity now; or we should have realized that this would be a continuous spending
spree to hold a little dutch boy's finger in the dyke.
