08-09-2005 18:25									#1
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And here's the proof!

quote: In Katrina's wake, Louisiana politicians and other critics have complained about paltry funding for the Army Corps in general and Louisiana projects in particular. But over the five years of President Bush's administration, Louisiana has received far more money for Corps civil works projects than any other state, about $1.9 billion; California was a distant second with less than $1.4 billion, even though its population is more than seven times as large. Much of that Louisiana money was spent to try to keep low-lying New Orleans dry. But hundreds of millions of dollars have gone to unrelated water projects demanded by the state's congressional delegation and approved by the Corps, often after economic analyses that turned out to be inaccurate. Despite a series of independent investigations criticizing Army Corps construction projects as wasteful pork-barrel spending, Louisiana's representatives have kept bringing home the bacon. . . . Pam Dashiell, president of the Holy Cross Neighborhood Association, remembers holding a protest against the lock four years ago -- right where the levee broke Aug. 30. Now she's holed up with her family in a St. Louis hotel, and her neighborhood is underwater. "Our politicians never cared half as much about protecting us as they cared about pork," Dashiell said.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dy...5090702462.html

New Orleans could have been saved if only Bush hadn't cut the funding for levees!

	08-09-2005 18:27									#2
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OWN GOAL!

	08-09-2005 18:30									#3
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The best part is, the levees that broke were not even scheduled to be strenghtened when they thought they had the money.

Absolutely all Bush's fault.

	08-09-2005 18:31									#4
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How much money was wasted in the highway bill again?

How about that bridge to nowhere in Alaska?

But yet they couldn't fix a levee to protect over a million people?

	08-09-2005 18:32									#5
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quote: But yet they couldn't fix a levee to protect over a million people?

Not "they" Sava. "Bush"...

	08-09-2005 18:35									#6
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Well he is a master engineer after all, Drake. He could have single handedly fixed it.

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I like that we now have four threads discussing the same thing, even the same sub-topic of the same thing.

quote: But yet they couldn't fix a levee to protect over a million people?

Fix, there was nothing wrong with it. It worked to the exact tolerances it was designed for.

	08-09-2005 18:38									#8
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quote: Originally posted by DinoDoc Well he is a master engineer after all, Drake. He could have single handedly fixed it.

Exactly, but that doesn't make me that angry. What really pisses me off is that Bush is in Washington right now, focusing on some bullshit like Iraq and the Supreme Court when he should be in New Orleans vaporizing the flood waters with his heat vision.

Shame on you, Mr. Bush. Shame on you...

	08-09-2005 18:39									#9
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quote: Originally posted by Patroklos Fix, there was nothing wrong with it. It worked to the exact tolerances it was designed for.

No, it'd didn't. It was supposed to stand up to a fast Cat 3. It didn't. Katie was a 4 where it made landfall but was only a Cat 2 in NOLA, and a Cat 3 in Biloxi. Now there are certain geographical features that may have magnified the impact of the storm in Lake Ponchetrain, but we don't know yet, whether those were in play.

	08-09-2005 18:42									#10
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quote: That doesn't make me that angry, though. What really pisses me off is that Bush is in Washington right now, focusing on some bullshit like Iraq and the Supreme Court when he should be in New Orleans vaporizing the flood waters with his heat vision.

Change the subject when you are wrong?

Bush didn't f'up, the Louisianna state government did. They had plenty of money, they just didn't know what to do with it.

I sooner blame the Army Core of Engineers... I am ashamed to call myself an engineer when there are idiots like them running around building damns, redirecting rivers, and pretty much encouraging floods.

They are your true scapegoat

	08-09-2005 18:43									#11
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Look, can't we just agree they all f'ed up?

	08-09-2005 18:45									#13
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quote: Originally posted by chegitz guevara Look, can't we just agree they all f'ed up?

No. Bush is a great President. You are trying to gain political capital off of dead people!

	08-09-2005 18:45									#14
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quote: They are your true scapegoat

In all seriousness, why do we need a scapegoat? Why can't we just admit that many people on many different levels made mistakes that led to the regrettable events in New Orleans? Why do we have to turn a national tragedy into an exercise in finger-pointing?

quote: Look, can't we just agree they all f'ed up?

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Yeah Sava, why do you HATE America?

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quote: why do we need a scapegoat? Why can't we just admit that many people on many different levels made mistakes that led to the regrettable events in New Orleans? Why do we have to turn a national tragedy into an exercise in finger-pointing?

I wasn't the one who came out of the tragedy pointing fingers! It was the dems!

	08-09-2005 18:47									#17
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Because it would be rational and no one wants that.

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So close to reality it's scary!

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quote: Originally posted by Japher I wasn't the one who came out of the tragedy pointing fingers! It was the dems!

quote: Because it would be rational and no one wants that.

It also doesn't allow anyone to score political points...

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quote: Originally posted by DinoDoc Because it would be rational and no one wants that.

Holding people accountable for MASSIVE FAILURES sounds rational to me.

But then again, I don't support the party of corruption and cronyism.

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quote: Originally posted by Japher disingenuous means that you are not native to your land.

Oh no it doesn't!

I think you and Drake have a little bit of explaining to do...

	08-09-2005 18:54									#22
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He was being disingenuous about the meaning of disingenuous!?!

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Nah, surely that would require him to actually know the definition of the word 'disingenuous' in the first place...

	08-09-2005 18:59									#24
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stop being loquacious... now I want fruit!

	08-09-2005 19:03									#25
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Basic vocabulary is not a trivial matter...

I'm guessing you both mixed it up with 'indigenous' - which is obviously such an easy thing to do considering they mean two utterly different things...

The icing on the cake is the compounding of the error by thinking you can put 'dis' in front of it...

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Mr. Trouble never hangs around
When he hears this mighty sound...
"Here I come to save the day!"
That means that George W. Bush is on the way.
Yessir when there is a wrong to right
George W. Bush will join the fight
On the sea or on the land
He gets the situation well in hand
So though we are in danger
We never despair
Cause we know that where there's danger
He is there!
He is there!
On the land!
On the sea!
In the air!
We're not worryin' at all
We're just listenin' for his call
"Here I come to save the day!"
That means that George W. Bush is on the way!

	08-09-2005 19:06									#27
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I'm surprised that no one here has commented on the fact that the commision, or whatever it will be, will be led by Bush himself, and not someone independent.

	08-09-2005 19:07									#28
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Congress is having their own investigation CO.

	08-09-2005 19:09									#29
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quote: I'm guessing you both mixed it up with 'indigenous' - which is obviously such an easy thing to do considering they mean two utterly different things... The icing on the cake is the compounding of the error by thinking you can put 'dis' in front of it...

Nationaly, it was a great joke. Now admit it!

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I have to admit that I did think it funny, yes...