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To: xcr600 who wrote (57122)	8/31/2005 8:58:44 AM
From: tsigprofit	Read Replies (5) \| Respond to of 57584

Problem is that Republicans have vetoed infrastructure spending for the last 10 years proposed by Clinton and the Dems. Dems are far from perfect, but we had a balanced budget then, plus we wanted to spend money to help things here. Now, we have a gigantic disaster in New Orleans - see this article below. Much of this could have been stopped - had our Army Corp of Engineers and others done their jobs Tuesday night. See below - too few resources here - as US in Iraq is now half natiional guard units. So if they weren't in frickin Iraq - they could be doing their jobs here in the US protecting us, and the helicopters last night could have done their jobs to stop the breach - which they didn't do. Heads should roll on this one, and I hope people rise up and hold Bush accountable. He plays on vacation in Crawford while New Orleans floods. You are right - it could have been fixed - but we needed MONEY to do it. Money Repubs were not willing to spend - but they spend hundreds of billions in Iraq wasted on a trivial risk compared to this - and NOW WE SEE THE RESULTS. RISE UP AMERICA !!! WAKE UP AND SEE WHAT A DISASTER BUSH HAS BEEN 2001-2005 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Mayor blasts failure to patch levee breaches Wednesday, August 31, 2005; Posted: 7:21 a.m. EDT (11:21 GMT) Floodwaters fill the streets Tuesday near downtown New Orleans. NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana (CNN) -- A day after Hurricane Katrina dealt a devastating blow to the Big Easy, New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin on Tuesday night blasted what he called a lack of coordination in relief efforts for setting behind the city's recovery. "There is way too many fricking ... cooks in the kitchen," Nagin said in a phone interview with WAPT-TV in Jackson, Mississippi, fuming over what he said were scuttled plans to plug a 200-yard breach near the 17th Street Canal, allowing Lake Pontchartrain to spill into the central business district. An earlier breach occurred along the Industrial Canal in the city's Lower 9th Ward. The rising flood waters overwhelmed pumping stations that would normally keep the city dry. About 80 percent of the city was flooded with water up to 20 feet deep after the two levees collapsed. The Army Corps of Engineers is working to repair the levee breaches, the agency said Tuesday, but it gave no timetable for repairs. The Corps has workers assessing damage at the two locations. The National Guard, Coast Guard and state and federal agencies are working with the agency to speed the process, it reported. "These closures are essential so that water can be removed from the city," a statement from the Corps of Engineers' headquarters in Washington said. Walter Baumy, the agency's engineering division chief, said the Corps is trying to line up rock, sandbags, barges, helicopters and cranes to patch the damaged levees. Col. Kevin Wagner, a Corps official in Baton Rouge, said that engineers also were eyeing the prospect of filling shipping containers with sand and lowering them into the breaches to stanch the flooding. The National Weather Service reported a breach along the Industrial Canal levee at Tennessee Street, in southeast New Orleans, on Monday. Local reports later said the levee was overtopped, not breached, but the Corps of Engineers reported it Tuesday afternoon as having been breached. But Nagin said a repair attempt was supposed to have been made Tuesday. According to the mayor, Black Hawk helicopters were scheduled to pick up and drop massive 3,000-pound sandbags in the 17th Street Canal breach, but were diverted on rescue missions. Nagin said neglecting to fix the problem has set the city behind by at least a month. "I had laid out like an eight-week to ten-week timeline where we could get the city back in semblance of order. It's probably been pushed back another four weeks as a result of this," Nagin said. "That four weeks is going to stop all commerce in the city of New Orleans. It also impacts the nation, because no domestic oil production will happen in southeast Louisiana." Nagin said he expects relief efforts in the city to improve as New Orleans, the National Guard and FEMA combine their command centers for better communication, followup and accountability.

To: xcr600 who wrote (57122)	8/31/2005 12:45:08 PM
From: shadowman	Respond to of 57584

At the risk of politicizing a terrible tragedy I give you this link. Message 21655487 It will be interesting to see if the questions raised in this article will have any political repercussion.