The size and scope of the levee problem could not have been solved by any governmental agency operating under non-emergency procedures in anything less than 15-20 years.
Unless we want to go back and blame every local administration and federal administration for the forty years preceding 1980 for not adequately planning for Hurricane Katrina, I suppose we should lay off the blame game. Nothing started during Clinton's administration would've changed the outcome of the disaster, unless they were operating with urgency, which they wouldn't have been. The proposed levee projects from President Bush's first term cited a 30 year program and I think over 10 billion dollars. The President cut their proposal down to 2 billion and limited them to only the most promising projects.
My own curiosity is in finding out how far along the projects were along before Katrina hit. If I'm right, none of them were really that far along because such projects take a lot of planning.
The size and scope of the levee problem could not have been solved by any governmental agency operating under non-emergency procedures in anything less than 15-20 years.
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Exactly. From what I have been able to see, the entire region was simply not prepared for the worst impact, which did happen. Now we see the end result.