What a crock! These people continue to ignore WHO is in charge of the city and state....TWO democrats! There has been NO effort on the part of NO or Louisiana to change the levee system for decades!
BINGO! Oh yeah and the press and media have no liberal bias.
$70 million flushed down the rathole of the NO public education system would have paid for a lot of levee protection:
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/education/2002245573_schools19.html
NEW ORLEANS — Dozens of employees indicted or convicted on corruption charges. Tens of millions of dollars unaccounted for. Eight superintendents in seven years. Rock-bottom test scores. Shootings, sirens and police uniforms, often. The threat of bankruptcy and bounced checks, constantly.
In the dismal gallery of failing urban school systems, New Orleans' may be the biggest horror of them all.
In February, the U.S. Education Department said nearly $70 million in federal money for low-income children was either not properly accounted for or misspent.