[Saints fan]

Perhaps The city should have allowed the Feds to build those flood gates back in the 70's. Oops.

Nope, the feds built the levee walls in the late 80's, early 90's.They were incredibally misengineered and built by the Army Corps of Engineers.If they were built right , New Orleans would not have flooded.

[Ouderkirk]

If you want to rebuild N.O you are certainly more than welcome to that. The taxpayers in the rest of the country should not have to rebuild that corrupt craphole. Yes, I have been to N.O and 90% of that city was/is a craphole so there is no great loss

[muawiyah]

They weren't actually built by the Corps of Engineers. All they did was supervise the funding of the contracts.

Obviously that wasn't enough supervision given the depth of corruption in that part of the country.

[Jack of all Trades]

The Lake Ponchartrain and Vicinity Hurricane Protection project was authorized in 1965. Local Levee districts shared 30% of the contruction costs, and maintained the infrastructure. The initial plan was to use floodgates. Local preferences, litigation and environmental concerns were cited as reasons for the change. link

Sorry for your troubles, but the Federal government did not destroy New Orleans. There's a lot more justification for that statement than the above referenced information. For example, the fact that it was a natural disaster.

[supercat]

Nope, the feds built the levee walls in the late 80's, early 90's.They were incredibally misengineered and built by the Army Corps of Engineers.If they were built right , New Orleans would not have flooded.

According to other postings, there had been plans to build floodgates between Lake Ponchatrain and the canals; such plans were scuttled by environmental groups. Had such floodgates been built, the breach of a canal wall would have dumped a canalfull of water into the city, but not a lakefull.