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Originally Posted by websiex
I don't know if you guys know this, but New Orleans got most of its profits from Casinos. I wouldn't expect to see Casinos rushing in after this hurricane showed what can happen to the city.
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You act like Mississippi didnt have casinos.
do any of you actually leave the house?
the reason its levees were not brough up to par is because of funding.
the money WAS THERE, and it would have ONLY BEEN MILLIONS. Guess what, didnt happen. Deny it all you want. Levee funds were directed to IRAQ.
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In early 2004, as the cost of the conflict in Iraq soared, President Bush proposed spending less than 20 percent of what the Corps said was needed for Lake Pontchartrain, according to a Feb. 16, 2004, article, in New Orleans CityBusiness.
On June 8, 2004, Walter Maestri, emergency management chief for Jefferson Parish, Louisiana; told the Times-Picayune: "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."
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http://www.editorandpublisher.com/ea..._id=1001051313
why dont you tell the Dutch that levees cannot save you.