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[dwenius]

This post on the socio-economics of the disaster makes many good points, but the line I keep coming back to is this one:

Everyone knew the levees were in trouble. The city had been begging Uncle Sam for money to fix them, but federal money had slowed to a trickle. At least nine articles in the Times-Picayune from 2004 and 2005 specifically cite the cost of Iraq as a reason for the lack of hurricane- and flood-control dollars. There's cash to be followed, if you're interested. Go here and read.

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[eac.livejournal.com]

These questions about the levees and lack of funds to fix them leave me with questions about what else is waiting for the wrong storm to fall down?

I presume that the levees in NOLA are only one of a bunch of things the Army Corp has been doing triage on...