Re: Katrina slide show pix

Proconsul wrote: 
Jer <gdunn@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

| no_name wrote:
|| Jer wrote:
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||| Proconsul wrote:
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|||| You shouldn't - the Corps of Engineers provides levees and flood
|||| control dams all the way up the Mississippi to Illinois, all the
|||| way up the Missouri to Wyoming and all the way up the Ohio River
|||| Complex way past Pittsburgh. You benefit directly from every
|||| dollar the Corps of Engineers spends on flood control, etc., of
|||| the river complexes that drain more than two thirds of the United
|||| States.....
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||| Why would they build all those levees all over the place?
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|| Navigation; keep the river in one place to make it easier & cheaper
|| for barge traffic.
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| That's odd... this Proconsul twit was trying to convince me levees are
| built to protect neighborhoods full of people.  My brother and I both
| know that's bullshit.  Levees were constructed for river barges, not
| people.

That Proconsul twit clearly pointed out to you that the money spent on FLOOD CONTROL benefits you directly - never made any comment about people versus barges. If you don't think that flood control benefits you directly, you're the twit......:)

PC 

This may come as a shock, but I don't care.


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