"DSK" wrote in message
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Because the Federal gummint takes sucha huge chunk out of
everybody;s income in taxes that they don't have enough left in local
budgets to pay hundreds of millions for levee construction?

Doug,
You are making an excellent argument for less Federal taxes. If the Fed's
were not taxing New Orleans so heavily, New Orleans would have been able to
allocate the taxes in a way that would benefit the locals best. You are not
alone in your viewpoint, there are many people who feel the Federal
Goverment taxes people too heavily and do a poor job of allocating the money
back to state and local goverments.

To be honest, I just didn't think you realized the fallacy of the
...."the Federal gummint takes sucha huge chunk out of
everybody;s income in taxes that they don't have enough left in local
budgets to pay hundreds of millions for levee construction?"



.... you guys have managed to
pick leaders who give you the worst of both worlds - they're scandal
ridden and incompetent in a crisis.

Ahem. What about those buses left unused, less than a mile from the
Superdome?



We failed you? No, oh brilliant creator of Exit to Eden, you failed.
You might not think of it this way, but: Your leaders failed to upgrade
the levees. You elected a bunch of weepers and blame-shifters who lost
their head in a crisis.

Who exactly is playing "the blame game" here?

Is it the ones who cannot stand to have any criticism of Bush, Cheney, or
that matter, Halliburton, aired publicly?


.... I'd
appreciate a little less "you failed us" and a little more "we've
learned our lesson."


So would I.

Maybe President Bush's staff, who literally spent days *after* the
hurricane arguing among themselves to decide who would be the 'bearer of
bad news' and suggest to the President that he end his vacation early,
could answer some of these questions.

DSK