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To: Constant Reader who wrote (554)	9/8/2005 10:05:03 AM
From: Oeconomicus	Respond to of 1118

Besides, the levee the "flying barge" hit was the very same one Lower Ninth Ward residents went to court to block improvement of - the one along the industrial canal bordering their neighborhood. They were apparently worried about noise. NIMBY strikes again. BTW, regarding neglected infrastructure, big cities are notorious free riders. The city of Atlanta refused for decades to spend anything to improve it's crumbling water and sewer systems - to the point where it was getting fined something like a million bucks a day for discharges of untreated sewage into the Chattahoochee River. At that point, they got serious about figuring out how to fix the problems, but then realized it was going to cost billions. So, what did they do? Asked for state and federal bailouts because they couldn't stomach raising taxes on their own citizens to pay for something they should have been paying for a little at a time over the last 20-30 years. They want the public services, but they don't want to pay for them. Seems they thought statewide or even national taxpayers should foot the bill for them.