Army Corps of Engineers budget for levee construction in NO. is slashed!

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Army Corps of Engineers budget for levee construction in NO. is slashed!

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June 2004: The Army Corps of Engineers budget for levee construction in New Orleans is slashed. Jefferson Parish emergency management chiefs Walter Maestri comments: "It appears that the money has been moved in the president's budget to handle homeland security and the war in Iraq, and I suppose that's the price we pay."

June 2005: Funding for the New Orleans district of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is cut by a record $71.2 million. One of the hardest-hit areas is the Southeast Louisiana Urban Flood Control Project, which was created after the May 1995 flood to improve drainage in Jefferson, Orleans and St. Tammany parishes.
http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/archives/individual/2005_09/007023.php

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Thu Sep-01-05 01:28 PM
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1. I've been posting this all morning.

Edited on Thu Sep-01-05 01:32 PM by Wilber_Stool

"Over the past three-and-one-half years, FEMA has gone from being a model agency to being one where funds are being misspent, employee morale has fallen, and our nation's emergency management capability is being eroded," he wrote. "Our professional staff are being systematically replaced by politically connected novices and contractors."

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Thu Sep-01-05 01:31 PM
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2. Kick!! For all those suffering for Fucktard's "policies"........n/t

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