Same in Buffalo, and Detroit. One of the things that has always bugged me about “investing in infrastructure” was that governments should be maintainng roads and bridges on a contiuous basis. There are ostensibly plenty of dedicated revenue sources to keep these thing in good repair (fuel taxes, registration fees, tolls, milage fees, etc). Yet the liberals have to raid these revenue streams to fund their welfare state. As Maggie Thatcher once famously said, sooner or later you run out of other people’s money. Socialists raid funds meant for infrastructure maintenance, they tax everything that moves, and some things that don’t, they borrow until the lending window slams shut, and they still need more. THEN they try to tell you that borrowing money to upgrade infrastucture is some wonderful, bold initiative. It is, in my opinion, a damning indication of poor stewardship on the part of government.
That's what sunk New Orleans. There was plenty of money to maintain the levees, but the separate levy boards used the funds as their piggy bank for family and friends (common in all liberal-controlled communities).