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1 posted on 05/21/2008 5:19:49 PM PDT by Dawnsblood
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It’s W’s fault. He really ought to be down there inspecting those leevees and the repair work going on.


2 posted on 05/21/2008 5:22:22 PM PDT by ReleaseTheHounds ("The demagogue is one who preaches doctrines he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots.")
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To: Dawnsblood

ENOUGH ALREADY!

Move the city to higher ground...

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3 posted on 05/21/2008 5:26:18 PM PDT by kellynla (Freedom of speech makes it easier to spot the idiots! Semper Fi!)
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The agency said it is taking the risk of seepage into account and rebuilding the levees with an adequate margin of safety.

Isn't that what this bureaucrat-laden "agency" said about the levees in the first place?

Once again, politics, bureaucracy, and mismanagement is going cost the American taxpayer billions of dollars - and all of it pi$$ed down the drain to save a sinking cesspool of demoncrap corruption.

4 posted on 05/21/2008 5:29:01 PM PDT by clee1 (We use 43 muscles to frown, 17 to smile, and 2 to pull a trigger. I'm lazy and I'm tired of smiling.)
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To: Dawnsblood

New Orleans sits on a deep layer of mud and river silt. There is no bedrock for a hundred feet down in some places. If the water pressure on the water side of the levee gets high enough, the water will just flow UNDER the levee until it undermines it


6 posted on 05/21/2008 5:32:34 PM PDT by PapaBear3625 ("In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act." -- George Orwell)
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To: Dawnsblood

Bbbbut they have such a nice model of the ribba.


8 posted on 05/21/2008 5:33:08 PM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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The Army Corps of Engineers has spent about $4 billion so far

Just like our education system, all it needs is more money and it will continue to be mushy.

9 posted on 05/21/2008 5:33:43 PM PDT by taxesareforever (We'll never forget Matt Maupin and his service to our country.)
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To: Dawnsblood

New Orleans in my opinion, which no body ask for, in all practical purpose a natural environmental disaster again already in the making. There in that marsh in which the city is built upon, is not much one can do to stop nature. Puting
heavy concrete slabs, or what ever is going to sink in to the muck, and of course you have those that reaped millions, will complain that we, the taxpayers did not spend or send enough money to bail them out. If that ever happens again, I hope the government will declare it a disaster area, and close the city down, and save the billions from the sink hole. Go ahead , line up, and put your hands out to recieve your “just compensation”, Nagin.

Best Regards,
Bullfrog


25 posted on 05/21/2008 7:05:59 PM PDT by Bullfrogg (American by Birth, Irish by heritage, hell raiser by choice)
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27 posted on 05/21/2008 9:40:14 PM PDT by concentric circles
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Galveston Texas raised the entire city 4 to 6 feet and built a seawall 17 feet high to protect the city from Hurricanes. It did it all between 1902 and 1908 without federal aid.


29 posted on 05/21/2008 10:42:33 PM PDT by Swiss
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