[DeeOhGee]

Federal money has been given for preparedness.

Kinda hard to make the point in light of the COE New Orleans District budget cuts, and in light of the fact that the plans to strengthen the levee system lost much of its funding.

[Fierce Allegiance]

WOW! You sure are good at listening to and parroting the MSM lies!

The section of levee that failed was recently upgraded. Even if it hadn't, it takes years to move money from the feds and get any USACOE project through design, solicitation and contracting into an actual construction phase.

From this thread:http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1475340/posts

Not until the ninth paragraph does the story imply (but fail to state) that budget cut – even if the intended work could have been done instantaneously, had nothing to do with the flooding. It quotes an expert “at the University of New Orleans, [who] said that was particularly surprising because the break was ‘along a section that was just upgraded.’ ”


The implication, gleefully trumpeted by rabid Democrats, is that George Bush caused the destruction of New Orleans. Not until paragraph 16 does the article note the system was only designed to protect against a Category 3 storm. It neglects to mention that decision was made by local officials, all Democrats.


For the truth, see a Chicago Tribune article the same day. Its lede says: “The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers said Thursday that a lack of funding for hurricane-protection projects around New Orleans did not contribute to the disastrous flooding that followed Hurricane Katrina.”


The Tribune notes the decision to build the levees for a Category 3 storm was “made decades ago.” Next, it says, “ ‘I don't see that the level of funding was really a contributing factor in this case,’ said Lt. Gen. Carl Strock, chief of engineers for the corps. ‘Had this project been fully complete, it is my opinion that based on the intensity of this storm that the flooding of ... [New Orleans] would have still taken place.’ ”


Here’s the source: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1475305/posts

[looney tune]

Well, if that was the case, they still knew it in advance the city would flood. Why did the President have to tell the mayor to effect mandatory evacuation? Try as you may to point the finger at the administration, hurricanes are a way of life in coastal areas. Planning should be done on city and state levels. That said, this storm is of Biblical proportions & no planning can fully compensate for that.

[eyespysomething]

and in light of the fact that the plans to strengthen the levee system lost much of its funding.

Or that the newly (this year) strengthened area of the levee, concrete strengthened, is part of the levee which failed

[been_lurking]

and in light of the fact that the plans to strengthen the levee system lost much of its funding.

Of course, the fact that the actual sections of the levy system that gave way were not under consideration for repair under those original budgets will go without discussion or consideration. The sections that broke were not considered to be the sections that had a problem.

Nope, we can't even consider that little fact because it ruins an otherwise outstanding sound bite as we search for blame and targets to flog.

[Redbob]

"the plans to strengthen the levee system lost much of its funding."

And what of the millions that WERE alloted?
How were THEY spent?
Hmmmm?