Hurricane Katrina...

[NikkiD]

i think busy's point was that everybody saw it coming but the republicans deicided to cut resources to spend elsewhere. namely iraq

I was replying to his post about not forseeing the levees breaking.

[RPerry]

Well some people saw it coming, Busyman.

National Geographic, October 2004

Damn, I got chills reading that article. talk about predictions

[Busyman]

i think busy's point was that everybody saw it coming but the republicans deicided to cut resources to spend elsewhere. namely iraq

I was replying to his post about not forseeing the levees breaking.

Post 126 but thanks anyway.

[Rat Faced]

But was the situation mis-underestiamated, or did they just not care?



Or both..

[Everose]

In reality, there many States in the running for Federal monies. Many feel their situations are the most important, and many left uncompleted could end up with disastrous results as this one did.

I don't agree with the war in Iraq. But I can't blame the Federal Funds not being there on the war in Iraq alone. There are only so many Federal Funds for special projects, war or no war. We could also say that if the Federal Government didn't give us the tax refunds they have given us, or if they hadn't given so much foreign aid, or if they hadn't given states and cities so many billions in grants for emergency preparedness since 9/11, the money would be there for the levy in New Orleans.

Any time I read an article like this that doesn't point these other facts out, and instead repeatedly blames the lack of fed funds for this project on only the Iraq war, imo it has been written for a single agenda somehow.

[BigBank_Hank]

Rose don’t forget Clinton and Gore were supposed Mr. environment and didn’t do a damn thing about the levees for 8 years that they were in office.

[GepperRankins]

192 billion, iraq cost. they needed only 60 million to fix the coast but only got 10.

[manker]

Rose don’t forget Clinton and Gore were supposed Mr. environment and didn’t do a damn thing about the levees for 8 years that they were in office.

You can't temper a failing by saying that someone else failed too. You can't justify inaction by saying that someone else did also did nothing.

You're a mechanic, right? If you did a service on a car and the very next day the brakes failed and caused a fatal accident, would you sit back and console yourself that a competitor did likewise.

No, you would condemn yourself for shoddy workmanship.


I have no looks on Bush, but I don't think you'd find him taking that line. Poor show, Hank.

[Everose]

Rose don’t forget Clinton and Gore were supposed Mr. environment and didn’t do a damn thing about the levees for 8 years that they were in office.

Well, that is right. Many things to be taken into consideration, aren't there? It seems like we have had to spend so much money on natural disaster clean up that sometimes the prevention has to be delayed....especially if the project depends on a natural disaster that may or may not occur, and the funds are needed where they have occured first. And then, by golly, think of the federal projects that have been delayed for years at much expense because we needed to protect an endangered species.

You know, Florida had what......4 hurricanes last year? Was it a mistake to spend money there? Should the federal government have left those people to their own defenses and used that money to shore up this levee in case we happened to get this hundred year storm in New Orleans? I could hear the uproar, couldn't you?

Hindsight is hindsight. You always hope to learn from it, but when you are picking your priorities as far as federal funding goes.......you have a lot of very severe need projects to pick from.

Sorry, Manker, imo a bad call on your part. Hank never tried to make this a political thread. His concern was that a disaster happened and people needed help. But it has sure turned into a political thread. Sometimes you just get a belly full of it and have to throw some facts and common sense into the mix.

[BigBank_Hank]

Rose don’t forget Clinton and Gore were supposed Mr. environment and didn’t do a damn thing about the levees for 8 years that they were in office.

You can't temper a failing by saying that someone else failed too. You can't justify inaction by saying that someone else did also did nothing.

You're a mechanic, right? If you did a service on a car and the very next day the brakes failed and caused a fatal accident, would you sit back and console yourself that a competitor did likewise.

No, you would condemn yourself for shoddy workmanship.


I have no looks on Bush, but I don't think you'd find him taking that line. Poor show, Hank.

You missed the point Manker. Clinton touted himself as being this big environmentalist and what did he do to help? You guys are acting like Bush just invented hurricanes and placing the blame square on his shoulders. I’m not blaming Clinton I’m just saying that he didn’t do anything either.