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$3 billion New Orleans levee repair plan announced
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| 15 Dec 2005
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Posted on 12/15/2005 10:08:51 AM PST by Ben Mugged
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Spend, spend, spend
To: Ben Mugged
Welcome to FR (relatively speaking)
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posted on
12/15/2005 10:10:03 AM PST
by
Windsong
(Jesus Saves, but Buddha makes incremental backups)
To: Windsong
I'm such a giving person.
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posted on
12/15/2005 10:15:58 AM PST
by
avg_freeper
(Gunga galunga. Gunga, gunga galunga)
To: Ben Mugged
Phew, I am glad Nagin was at the meeting...I am sure he had a lot of great insights to contribute. So $3B seems reasonable assuming the levees really do hold in future storms. Now what are Blanco and Nagin going to do with the other $247B they requested?
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posted on
12/15/2005 10:16:05 AM PST
by
frankjr
To: Ben Mugged
Hmmm.
This is more interesting by who WASN't there then by who was.
No Governor Blanco, no Senator Landreau. I suppose they have cast their fate to the wind. Mayor Nagin, on the other hand, who USED to be a Republican, seems to be right in the thick of it. Nagin could be useful in grooming a new society and culture of New Orleans, one, dare I say it, of a more conservative bent.
Then again Nagin is the Mayor of NO and should be there. Thus my political speculation is for nought.
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posted on
12/15/2005 10:16:21 AM PST
by
Fishtalk
(Pop Culture and Political Pundit-http://patfish.blogspot.com/)
To: Ben Mugged
The Left will say that it's "not enough" and will blame Bush anyway when another Hurricane hits.
To: Ben Mugged
Instead of listening to the "Honorable" Mayor Nagen lie about the Feds doing shoddy work on the Levees and even blowing them up (we call them dikes up North, but dike isn't politically correct) why don't we do a thorough audit of all levee funds? Are the Jails in New Orleans open?
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posted on
12/15/2005 10:20:30 AM PST
by
BarbM
To: Ben Mugged
Wow, the Nawlins criminal politicians are gonna have to work overtime to figure out how to steal that much money.
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posted on
12/15/2005 10:21:28 AM PST
by
GaltMeister
(“All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.”)
To: Fishtalk
I had always though Nagin only switched parties because of the truth that New Orleans was 70% black (meaning, 70% Democratic, at base)
One thing people forget about New Orleans is that, in Orleans Parish itself, Bush won the white vote. While it is true they have a gay community, and it is true they are run by Democrats, I never thought of New Orleans as a liberal city. With a few minor exceptions, New Orleans has always been a certain way, few places in America resist change more than it. One thing that could be done is to bring back the New Orleans of my fathers time, the New Orleans that was the one area of Louisiana that actually stood up to Huey Long, etc.
I met Nagin several times, all on business trips, (before Katrina), he seemed to me to be an intelligent man, a man who gave a damn about the city, and he has impressed me in office, most people not from the coast don't realize that more than any Mayor in recent history, he tried to root out corruption, and he cracked down on the brake-tags (I never understood what one of those was)
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posted on
12/15/2005 10:22:44 AM PST
by
AzaleaCity5691
(The enemy lies in the heart of Gadsden)
To: GaltMeister
$3 billion New Orleans levee repair plan announcedUse the buses to fill the gaps. They didn't use them before.
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posted on
12/15/2005 10:22:48 AM PST
by
beyond the sea
(Murtha: Redeployment - What .......Surrender? // “Victory is not a strategy”)
To: Ben Mugged
When asked if the levees would be built to withstand a Category 5 storm, officials used broader language instead, promising that the city's citizens would be safe and the levees would be "stronger and better." I suppose a Category 5-proof levee would cost $5 billion. But maybe it's just my optimism.
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posted on
12/15/2005 10:22:55 AM PST
by
Smile-n-Win
(Don't let her take things away from you on behalf of the public good!)
To: Ben Mugged
I object. I realize the govt has no interest in my opinion, but as one of the millions of taxpayers who will be forced to pay for levies to protect a city built below sea-level, I object anyway.
I think New Orleans should be rebuilt only if the residents of Louisiana are willing to pay for it.
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posted on
12/15/2005 10:23:19 AM PST
by
American Quilter
(The bureaucracy, once created, has one rule above all: Preserve the Bureaucracy. - Ronald Reagan)
To: Ben Mugged
In other news, ground broken on new casino construction!
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posted on
12/15/2005 10:24:36 AM PST
by
Pookee
To: Ben Mugged
NAGIN: WE WILL HAVE "THE HOLY TRINITY OF RECOVERY"
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posted on
12/15/2005 10:24:44 AM PST
by
LA Woman3
("Don't blame me......I voted for Jindal" www.lagop.com)
To: Ben Mugged
Oh fer cryin' out loud!
It would be better to buy every New Orleans family a brand new house in the state of their choice and bulldoze what's left of the city. You would save money now and in the future too.
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posted on
12/15/2005 10:25:48 AM PST
by
TChris
("Unless you act, you're going to lose your world." - Mark Steyn)
To: CajunConservative
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posted on
12/15/2005 10:25:54 AM PST
by
LA Woman3
("Don't blame me......I voted for Jindal" www.lagop.com)
To: American Quilter
I agree. If the levees are built two criteria:
1)No residential in the flood zones
2) No money given directly to the city or state as they misued it last time!
To: Ben Mugged
Only $3 Billion? Why not $10 Billion? Or $100 Billion?
Someone please remind me which party won the Presidency for the White House in 2004.
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posted on
12/15/2005 10:26:55 AM PST
by
NJ_gent
(Modernman should not have been banned.)
To: Ben Mugged
And naturally there will be cuts to pay for this? NOT!!!!
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posted on
12/15/2005 10:27:03 AM PST
by
TXBSAFH
("I would rather be a free man in my grave then living as a puppet or a slave." - Jimmy Cliff)
To: Ben Mugged
why not just burn it. same result.
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posted on
12/15/2005 10:27:44 AM PST
by
jw777
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