[trumandogz]

The government has no duty to reclaim land from the sea .

Actually, it was the levees that were designed, constructed and maintained by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers that failed and flooded New Orleans.

If the Corps had done their job correctly, the levees would have withstood Katrina.

In the end, Katrina was not a natural disaster but rather a manmade disaster caused by the Federal Government.

[Mila]

“Actually, it was the levees that were designed, constructed and maintained by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers that failed and flooded New Orleans.

If the Corps had done their job correctly, the levees would have withstood Katrina.

In the end, Katrina was not a natural disaster but rather a manmade disaster caused by the Federal Government.”

This can’t be repeated enough.

[FreePaul]

...a manmade disaster caused by the Federal Government.

I remember something about an Orleans Levee Board that was responsible for maintenance of the levees. Didn't they spend a lot of taxpayers' money doing nothing? Weren't they abolished after Katrina for their misconduct? Maybe they had a part, along with the "Federal Government," in the levee failure.