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DollarBill wrote:
FORMER CLINTON ADVISOR

"No One Can Say they Didn't See it Coming"

By Sidney Blumenthal

In 2001, FEMA warned that a hurricane striking New Orleans was one of the three most likely disasters in the U.S. But the Bush administration cut New Orleans flood control funding by 44 percent to pay for the Iraq war

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Seems to me that decades of local Democrat government should have also seen this coming.

What did these locals do, sat on their butt and complained.

It also seems like to me that the local New Orleans government has the responsibility to build dikes and levees.

Why should an above amount of my taxes be siphoned away from my area to do projects for those who should have enough sense to do those things for themselves.

[Arizona Carolyn]

Not EVERYTHING is the responsibility of the Federal Government... if they don't do something about getting these people educated and decent jobs and paying taxes instead of collecting NO and cities like her are doomed for failure.

[DollarBill]

You are exactly right. I agree with you 100%. The ineptness of the N.O. mayor and Governer is unbelievable. They had no plan whatsoever. Sure, they will say they had a plan but, Katrina and the aftermath was so bad they could not implement there contingency plans, but I don't buy it for a minute!! It is obvious they had no plan before and after the fact. That's why I knew it was just a matter of time that they would find a way to blame Bush.

[uncbob]

In 2001, FEMA warned that a hurricane striking New Orleans was one of the three most likely disasters in the U.S. But the Bush administration cut New Orleans flood control funding by 44 percent to pay for the Iraq war

Maybe the 15 or was it 25 BILLION for AIDS in Africa would have been more than enough

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Did the Clinton administration do ANYTHING other than issue warnings about how terrible everything was going to be after they got out of office? I could have told you that in 1993.

[vigilante2]

how much tax dollars were being collected from these casino's that had to be kept open until the last minute