Okay the ACE screwed up. This is cancelled out by the fact that a bunch of people were stupid enough to live below sea lever in a river delta. Case closed.
If I remember correctly, the Corps of Engineers’ recommendations were chellanged and the Corps was sued by the usual gang of enviros and the suit was upheld by the usual bunch of judges.
Again, the liberals cause a problem and complain that we let them have their way.
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I wonder if this so-called “judge” would let the American taxpayers sue those who decided to live in that swamp in the first place and as a result, caused the waste of billions of taxpayer dollars after Katrina. If I’m not mistaken, there are people still choosing to live there. Not very bright. If the ‘canes don’t get ‘em, Algore’s polar ice melt will.
Maybe the Corps of Engineers should destroy all their projects and stand down. Then then they could announce, “Never mind all the many benefits we have provided, we just can not be responsible for what may go wrong in the future.”
This was act of God.
Can we sue Jimmy Carter for f***ing up and ushering in a wave of Islamic Supremacists in the 1970s that still plague us today?
Find the original plans and if it says anything about flood control then this judge gets overrode on appeal.
CA-CHING!
Mayor Ray Nagin, Governor Blanco and Senator Mary Landrieu are exempt of wrong doing however...
This is absolutely true, but this is not New Orleans proper, as it was founded. The Mr. Go Canal was a government boondoggle that we were forced, as a nation, to fund and build. MRGO blew out the 9th Ward area, exactly what was predicted when the plan was proposed to excavate that giant, crazy, channel. MRGO was proposed as a jobs program, a short-cut between the Mississippi and the Gulf, never much-used that I ever saw. Didn’t work. It worked just fine as a water funnel to blowout the 9th ward.
This canal was a Federal project, against local objections, and a complete failure as a jobs program. MRGO isn’t the canal that took out NO, it took out the East side portion that tapers out into the marshes.
When they built this canal, it was a corrupt and inside deal that many objected to, but it was also Federal. Yeah, it’s a U.S. obligation, but don’t get taken; that was absolutely crap land that petered out into the water in all directions and was mostly owned by folks that rented out crap single family and crap multi-family housing. Don’t make those scum-bags rich by now rewarding them for buying and building on the landfills. It is idiocy to build on the East side of NO, next to the River and the Lake, at least as a Nation. If some guy wants to build a place there, more power to him, but I’m not going to pay for it.
That just means the poor taxpayers will get soaked by lawyers yet again.