The Lesson of the Storms - A great read by a Moderate

My husband came across this and emailed it to me - I hope its not a dupe - I checked real quick.

http://www.unknowncountry.com/journal/

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"In fact, weather experts have been warning for years that a confluence of a large cyclical pattern in hurricane formation and record high sea water temperatures in the Caribbean, the South Atlantic and the Gulf of Mexico is extremely dangerous. To ignore these warnings even after last year's hurricane season is not simply ignorant, it is willfully, destructively ignorant.

The disaster that has befallen New Orleans could have been ameliorated if the Army Corps of Engineers had been able to examine the levees and if they had been adequately maintained. It did not have the budget to do this properly in recent years and, with the new cuts, has no ability even to repair levees, let alone reinforce them.

New Orleans has been abandoned to its fate by what I have come to believe is the worst administration in American history, even worse than the spectacularly corrupt Harding and Grant administrations. As most of you know, I am a moderate, neither a conservative nor a liberal, a Democrat or a Republican. But I know bad when I see bad, and what we have now is real bad."