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Old 09-03-2005, 01:55 PM  
Heywood Jablome
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Originally Posted by aico
Not only did she ask for help repeatedly. They have been asking for help for the last 10 fucking years, saying that they needed funding to make the levies strong enough, and were denied funding everytime... I bet that would have been a lot cheaper than what it's gonna cost us now.

Memo: Terrorists will fly planes into our buildings
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Memo: We need money to build strong levies to resist cat. 5 hurricanes.
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Memo: Congress WAS helping fund the levees. They already authorized half of the total requested amount.

It's funny you mention the levies. Do you realize that that first breached levy was actually in the process of being upgraded? Maybe if Clinton would have paid for the levies, they would have been done by now.
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