There were some reports after Katrina indicating that during the Clinton administration, funding to reinforce the levees was given to Louisiana, but somehow the money didn’t get spent as intended.
Then again, does any of this matter, if natural forces will sooner or later overwhelm the site where New Orleans is.
Didn’t some Republican congressman get raked over the coals for suggesting that New Orleans shouldn’t get redeveloped at the current site? of course since he was Republican, it was racist and a slight to the poor of New Orleans as well to say that.
Mayor Nagin wants a chocolate city in New Orleans again. You figure many of the former residents will never return, and again calls into question whether it should be rebuilt. And if not rebuilt, calls into question whether it’s a good expenditure to rebuild the levees.
Planned Parenthood agrees. PP did not get them before they were born, so move 'em all back into the city and drown them when the levees breach again. See Margaret Sanger's "Negro Project".