Levees, removable walls in plan to protect NYC

Associated Press ^ | Jun 11, 2013 2:29 PM EDT | Jennifer Peltz

[Olog-hai]

Bloomberg has to stop flying in his Creator’s face.

[cripplecreek]

Gee however will THEY pay for it?

[dennisw]

Who is going to fund this boondoggle? Most likely you will via Federal taxes

[hadaclueonce]

Bloomingidiot needs to stay home and worry about it.

[txhurl]

What’s Krispy Kreme gonna build?

[Buckeye McFrog]

He’s really worried about all that flushing as a result of the continued availability of Big Gulps.

[Mouton]

Let it sink, we would all be better off.

[SpaceBar]

These monuments will someday join the heads on Easter Island as a testament to an ignorant and superstitious people.

[laplata]

Gee however will THEY pay for it?

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For one, they’ll triple the tax on 16 oz soft drinks. To make up for the banned larger sizes./s

[Strategerist]

These monuments will someday join the heads on Easter Island as a testament to an ignorant and superstitious people.

Other coastal cities such as London, St. Petersburg, and in the Netherlands already have coastal flood defenses just as elaborate and just as expensive.

There's nothing stupid about building flood barriers for NYC - they will end up being less expensive than the damage from future storms.

The STUPID thing is saying they're needed because of global warming. They're actually needed because NYC is a coastal city in an area that's been exposed to powerful storms for 10,000 years.

[cripplecreek]

I suggest a $100 entry fee for entering the city.

[SpaceBar]

I have no problem with sea walls, just the global warming excuse.

[EQAndyBuzz]

For millennia, storms have hit coastlines, creating new natural structures from the wreckage and destroying others. It is nature and it will be here a lot longer than us.

Billions of tax dollars to protect what? Wealthy people’s beachfront properties? Here is a suggestion, MOVE!

[SpaceBar]

However you can rest assured they will be incredibly expensive and built by companies with political connections, and not like in South America where they are built and maintained with convict labor.

[RetiredTexasVet]

Bloomberg has a lot of money. Maybe he could spot the city for 20 billion or so to get the project “on the ground”....it’s only fair that the 1% should pay for it.

[Carriage Hill]

[Mr. K]

I like that! It can be a great prison afterwards

(didnt anyone see “escape from NY?”)

[Strategerist]

It’s one thing for people to put expensive second houses on barrier islands.

We can’t really move lower Manhattan - it’s already the center of our financial infrastructure, and it’s actually cheaper to just build the barrier than try to move Wall Street to North Dakota.

[Buckeye McFrog]

(didnt anyone see “escape from NY?”)

Yes indeed. Freaked me out because the father of the girl I was dating was a cop who was a dead-ringer for Lee Van Cleef.

[CodeToad]

We could do without those financial systems. They only suck money out of the system, not put money in. Central banking and the fed are the worst that has happened to this nation. The manipulated stock market is third.