And here's where the full blame will be...on Bush. Read it an weep.
Over the next 10 years, the Army Corps of Engineers, tasked with carrying out SELA, spent $430 million on shoring up levees and building pumping stations, with $50 million in local aid. But at least $250 million in crucial projects remained, even as hurricane activity in the Atlantic Basin increased dramatically and the levees surrounding New Orleans continued to subside.
Yet after 2003, the flow of federal dollars toward SELA dropped to a trickle. The Corps never tried to hide the fact that the spending pressures of the war in Iraq, as well as homeland security -- coming at the same time as federal tax cuts -- was the reason for the strain. At least nine articles in the Times-Picayune from 2004 and 2005 specifically cite the cost of Iraq as a reason for the lack of hurricane- and flood-control dollars.
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1473789/posts
Were those articles written by Mother Mary Landrieu?? /sarc.
Its not Bush's fault. I swear the fact of blaming everything on the head guy is I know a natural thing to do. But it was an consistent lacking of planning for over two decades by all sorts of people in power. If there had been no Iraq war that money would not have been spent in time to prevent I suspect and would have been a drop in the bucket. By the way coastal funds event though not neaarly enough went up this yeaar in the budget