On Wed, 28 Sep 2005 08:52:45 -0400, DSK wrote:



I've heard a great deal of complaint in recent days that the federal
government may not ha! ve allocated enough money to speed up the
upgrades to those levees. This does, however, raise the question of why
city and state residents were waiting around for the federal
government to send enough money to upgrade this, instead of paying for
it themselves.

Because it's under Federal jurisdiction and the Corps of Engineers won't
let them? 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?

From where do you get the idea that the Corps was responsible for the levees
that failed? The ones that failed were not on intracoastal waterways.
--
John H

"All decisions are the result of binary thinking."