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Originally Posted by bjjb
First he tried getting the Gov of Miss. to say the federal gvt wasnt doing enuff now or before the shit happened. And hes been trying all morning to get officials to say it. Jeeeez he's right the fuck there. He cant see how bad shit is. It didint matter how much the feds did before it happened. No way anyone could have expected all of this.
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"It appears that the money has been moved in the president's budget to handle homeland security and the war in Iraq, and I suppose that's the price we pay. Nobody locally is happy that the levees can't be finished, and we are doing everything we can to make the case that this is a security issue for us."
- Walter Maestri, emergency management chief for Jefferson Parish, Louisiana; New Orleans Times-Picayune, June 8, 2004.
Shit could have been prevented.