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Tell them its not the fed's responsibility to fund levees for people who choose to live below sea level. Level 5 levees would cost 250 million I understand. New Orleans could have afforded that (over say five years), and the people of NO are the only people who should have been approached to pay it. Instead of which the dems have been waiting with their hands out FOR DECADES until the water literally rises around their ears.

Level 5 levees would cost 250 million I understand. New Orleans could have afforded that (over say five years), and the people of NO are the only people who should have been approached to pay it.

Given that 15/85 funding, a $250M project for levees would have cost New Orleans about 37.5M.

"Level 5 levees would cost 250 million"

WOW, that is unreal (cheap, relatively speaking) -- can anyone confirm if that price tag is true??? Here I've been assuming that NOLA and the state did not get around to constructing Level 5 levees because it would cost billions and billions of dollars and they just couldn't bite the bullet and do it. But this is obscene -- if they really could have financed the levees that would have saved the city for the price of a bridge or a local expressway, etc. D---, cities and states finance projects in that range all the time, when it's something they want....

Of course, they will try to say the feds should have paid for it.... This really does appear to be a case of "we're going to do absolutely nothing for ourselves, we'll just keep waiting and hope the federal government will use tax money from all over the country to take care of our problems."

btw, if the 'Rats keep going with the blame game, it needs to be pointed out that Kennedy/Kerry and the Mass. delegation got $15 BILLION or so of federal money for the "Big Dig" massive highway project which had none of the essential life-saving characteristics of NOLA levees.... not to mention all the "Robert Byrd Memorial Outhouses" built all over WV with federal monies, etc. etc. etc.

We will have to fight fire with fire, because these 'Rats are trying to use this catastrophe to destroy the Republican party -- it's going to be a fight to the finish, and the FACTS are on our side....!!!