Re: Response in New Orleans?


"The Shadow Knows..." <i.am.me.as.you.are.he@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:0fk9h19i686f1chhhb0a6tcs3g315ff5bf@xxxxxxxxxx 
 I'm no fan of Bush, but I can't blame
him here.  I believe his folly has put our ability to respond in the
best manner in a very strained place -

I blame him, for a specific reason: he repeatedly cut funding for the coastal programs that would have helped New Orleans avoid this flooding. Some of the pumps (old as hell) needed to be replaced, and have failed. The levy system was old and needed upgrading.

While it's easy to sit back and say "just abandon the city", the problem is that NO is our largest industrial port, serving the entire Mississippi River system. It's a strategic need, as well as humanitarian.

Meanwhile.....I'm wondering why he has to rush back to DC now to "manage" this flood, when it was OK for him to "manage" Iraq from Texas. He's fleeing Hurricane Cindy.

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Louisiana's Coastal Economy at Risk. Much of Louisiana's economy depends on a stable coast line. The oil and gas industry, the fishing industry and the city of New Orleans are all threatened by this environmental crisis. The Washington Post reported, "Most of Louisiana's industrial economy is on the coast, and much of it is at risk. Over the last several years, as satellite imagery and computer projections have driven home the point, the state's bankers, oil executives, engineers and governor have awakened to the possibility of an economic disaster of epic proportions. Louisiana's sinking coast has endangered not only the single greatest source of shrimp, oysters and other seafood outside Alaska but also major supplies of oil and natural gas and the only deep-sea offloading terminal for supertankers in the continental United States. Water supplies are in peril; oil and gas lines are exposed. Entire coastal towns are sinking, and New Orleans is threatened as never before." (Washington Post, 7/13/03)

Bush Refused to Release the Louisiana Coastal Area Study. The Bush Administration has refused to release the results of the Louisiana Coastal Area Comprehensive Study. The report was to outline a comprehensive plan to address the rapidly depleting Louisiana coastline. Instead, the Army Corp of Engineers was ordered to do a short-term plan that is not comprehensive enough to adequately address the problem. (Associated Press, 4/9/04)


Kris 

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