Subj : Re: Um...no comment?
To   : Frank Reid
From : Finnigann
Date : Mon Sep 05 2005 20:00:00

-=> Frank Reid wrote to Daemon <=-

 FR>   Re: Re: Um...no comment?
 FR>   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.

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

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

Interesting, where can I read more about this?

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