So bringing $s into the city is more important than keeping their citizens safe.
Yes, that seems to be the attitude of the city of New Orleans. They chose to spend local, state, and federal tax dollars on those projects instead of fixing the levees to withstand a catagory 5 hurricane or massive flooding. I just don't think it occured to anyone in charge that if the levees were to actually break, no one would be able to come in and spend money. Very sad on the part of local and state officials to let those poor and helpless remain so when they had the means at their disposal to fix the problem several times over.