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To: LindyBill who wrote (136462)	9/2/2005 11:02:48 AM
From: John Carragher	Respond to of 793845

at least the report showed all the details of what was in the proposed budget. anyone who put a budget together knows it is wish list. you put just about everything in there hoping at least half gets approved. later usually in corp life at year end more money comes loose and you can also get some pet projects approved that normally would never get through because you could never justify them. i expect a lot of filler projects were in the proposal. nice to do but not urgent type stuff.

To: LindyBill who wrote (136462)	9/2/2005 12:13:40 PM
From: Alan Smithee	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793845

Mike Parker, a former Mississippi Congressman and head of the Corps. of Engineers was interviewed on NPR this morning. He resigned in 2001 after a dispute with the Bush Administration over budgeting. He does not fault the current administration for the disaster in NO, commenting that the budgeting decisions at issue were made in the 1960's, 1970's and 1980's. Both Democrat and Republican administrations had a hand in the budgeting issues. The head of the Corps. District in New Orleans questioned whether it would have been prudent to spend billions to prepare for a storm event that, although possible, haad never hit the NO area in its history. npr.org