Subj : Re: Um...no comment?
To   : Daemon
From : Frank Reid
Date : Mon Sep 05 2005 18:47:00

  Re: Re: Um...no comment?
  By: Daemon to Angus McLeod on Mon Sep 05 2005 17:22:00

 >   *shakes head*  Continuing to cite facts to Frank only seems to rile the gu
 > up, so I won't bother cataloguing the ongoing work that was done nor
 > the drying-up of funding anymore, but there's that spin going on plus the fa
 > that, because of the under-funding, we're now looking at MASSIVE multi-billi
 > dollar funding to correct the inequities that were taken a chance on, a
 > horrible body count, and hundreds of thousands of ruined lives.

Let's talk about the facts.  How did the New Orleans Levee Board use federal
funds it did receive?  (I assume you didn't want people to have the
misimpression that all this "pork" was actually used by the Army Corps of
Engineers for levee-related projects, right?)  Tell us what *fraction* of
federal funds actually went to the ACoE for levee reinforcement or even
tangentially-related work.  While you're digging up that number, tally up how
much went to construction and operation of New Orleans marinas, casinos and
other absolutely unrelated projects.  For example, how many tens of millions
were diverted to build the new Six Flags?  How about the new riverfront French
Quarter Promenade?  Wait... Wouldn't revenue from these ventures increase
available funding for levee work?  Nope, unfortunately not a thin dime went
back to ACoE for levee-related work.  Do you think state and local officials
are second-guessing whether the concrete for their new arenas might have been
better applied to the levees?

Are you really incapable of telling the whole truth?  Or does it interfere with
that fantasy life of yours, in which you're the center of everyone's universe? 
You can feign naivete about pork-barrel politics if you like, but you're not
fooling me one bit!  Just when you think things couldn't get worse, a-holes
like you will come out of the woodwork hoping to loot the political spoils from
the ruins of the city.  Let them finish carting off the bodies first, at least!

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