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Politics : Bush Administration's Media Manipulation--MediaGate?

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To: steve harris who wrote (5043)9/17/2005 10:15:14 PM
From: Proud_Infidel  Read Replies (2) of 9838
 
Money that Congress set aside for New Orleans evacuation plan went instead to studying bridge
AP ^ | 9/17/05 | RITA BEAMISH

RITA BEAMISH Associated Press Writer

As far back as eight years ago, Congress ordered the Federal Emergency Management Agency to develop a plan for evacuating New Orleans during a massive hurricane, but the money instead went to studying the causeway bridge that spans the city's Lake Ponchartrain, officials say.

The outcome provides one more example of the government's failure to prepare for a massive but foreseeable catastrophe, said the lawmaker who helped secure the money for FEMA to develop the evacuation plan.

"They never used it for the intended purpose," said former Rep. Billy Tauzin, R-La. "The whole intent was to give them resources so they could plan an evacuation of New Orleans that anticipated that a very large number of people would never leave."

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