[Darnright]

>Dead right. Jim Rogers said that over the last 10 years, the Levee Board has:
1) Bought a casino
2) Bought a private marina
3) Bought a private plane
4) Invested several 100 million with friends<

Well, now we can see why Congress "failed" to appropriate mo' money to these corrupt thieves.

The Feds can only appropriate funds to get things done. When the bozos at state level then pi$$ it all away, the press and the public have no business pointing fingers at the federal level.

[Dems_R_Losers]

Note also that maintenance and improvements of these levees is NOT the responsibility of the Army Corps of Engineeers. The Corps has responsibility for the levees on the Mississippi River and Lake Ponchartrain, and while water brielfy overflowed the Lake levee during Katrina, the rupture of the locally-managed canal levees is what caused the flood.