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Originally posted by SlaveNoMore
We're now blaming the New Orleans disaster on Bush.
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Someone (who was in charge of levees, or something -- not like Maureen Dowd) in some article was bitching about budget cuts and how there was not enough money (in I think the Army Corps of Engineers) to do maintenance on the levees last year. I believe $73 million less, or something. I don't remember exactly, and I am not arguing that whatever maintenance was foregone would have averted the disaster, and I'm not arguing that it may have been a decision internal to the Army Corps of Engineers about how to allocate the total pot of money given to them.
I have a question -- how is it that New Orleans grew to be such a big city when it's in such a stupid place (a bowl with (at least partially) artificial sides surrounded by water)? I probably need to look at a map again and see where the port is in relation to the parts of the city that are so far below sea/lake/river levels.
