[Gondring]

President Bush reached into my wallet and said, "I'm taking this money you were saving to own a home, and I'm giving it to people who chose to build in an area where we shouldn't be developing."

That's theft.

We should be forbidding any development in NO, and should manage the situation by looking forward and building facilities in a more geologically sound area--realizing that constant change is the nature of a sinking delta.

[gracesdad]

“We should be forbidding any development in NO, and should manage the situation by looking forward and building facilities in a more geologically sound area—realizing that constant change is the nature of a sinking delta.”

If we follow your idea, we need to forbid construction on virtually any shorefront, in parts of California, in tornado alley, and so on.