Re: Republicans cut Levee funding


"Learning Richard" <learningrichard@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>
> J Strickland wrote:
>> The levees were only built to stand a Category 3 storm. They should have
>> been built decades ago to withstand Category 5 storms.
>>
>> Everything of this nature that gets built should be engineered to
>> withstand
>> the worst that might ever come at it, then we breathe easy when the worst
>> never comes. This makes much more sense than building it to lower
>> standards,
>> then sweating bullets when the bad shit comes along.
>>
>> The levees were never built for this sort of thing, and no amount of
>> patchwork would have fixed the inherent weakness in the dikes.
>>
>> Blame Bush if you want, but Bush is not at fault here. It is
>> representative
>> of a systemic failure that goes back several decades.
>
> you're stupid.
>

Why? Because I know that the levees were not designed for Katrina? Because I
suggest that we should build shit to withstand the worst that can be
imagined and breathe a sigh of relief with less than the worst comes along,
rather than build half of what we need to protect against the worst then
sweat bullets when the worst blows ashore?

Building a levee is kind of like building a road; if you expect 250,000
trips per day, then you should build for 300,000 and hope traffic never gets
that bad rather than build for 200,000 and have an obsolete road before the
first shovel of dirt is turned over. If you want to protect people that live
in a flood plain, you should build a wall higher than the highest tide and
stronger than the pounding surf.

You are the one that doesn't know this, me thinks you be the stupid one
here.



>>
>> PS
>> Tax cuts have resulted in increased revenues, so this complaint is a
>> strawman.
>
> prove it.
>

Read the current economic reports. They say that Federal Revenues are UP.
Money flowing into the federal government has increased at a rate that
should cut the Federal Deficit in half in less than the 10 years that people
that plan this sort of thing planned on.


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