Bush Administration Cut Flood Control Spending.
Flooding from Hurricane Katrina has virtually destroyed the entire city of New Orleans. Thousands are feared dead and the governor of Louisiana has order the city to be evacuated. Could this have been prevented?
Last June the New Orleans City Business reported that for fiscal year 2006 the New Orleans district of the US Army Corps of Engineers was forced to deal with a record $71.2 million reduction in federal funding. It would be the largest single-year funding loss ever for the New Orleans district, Corps officials said.
The cuts have shelved major hurricane and flood protection projects that would have gone to local engineering firms. Also shelved was a study to determine ways to protect the region from a Category 5 hurricane.
The Southeast Louisiana Urban Flood Control Project, created during the Clinton administration to shore up levees and build pumping stations has seen it’s federal funding largely frozen since 2003.
Last June the New Orleans City Business reported that for fiscal year 2006 the New Orleans district of the US Army Corps of Engineers was forced to deal with a record $71.2 million reduction in federal funding. It would be the largest single-year funding loss ever for the New Orleans district, Corps officials said.
The cuts have shelved major hurricane and flood protection projects that would have gone to local engineering firms. Also shelved was a study to determine ways to protect the region from a Category 5 hurricane.
The Southeast Louisiana Urban Flood Control Project, created during the Clinton administration to shore up levees and build pumping stations has seen it’s federal funding largely frozen since 2003.
posted by Alva Goldbook at 2:21 AM
2 Comments:
Another huge failure by Bush and his gang-of-thieves in Washington. What a tragedy, much of it avoidable. And what a monsterous neglect of the people of the south.
The race and economic class of the suffering masses down there has not gone unnoticed. We all know that Bush is pissed off at the people over his falling poll numbers, and the loss of support for his disasterous "war on terror".
I believe this "compassionate conservative" doesn't care about these people. I believe he doesn't care about anyone who couldn't pay his way into the whitehouse.
At the very least, the deaths that have occured since the initial storm are on his hands, and the hands of all who should have taken care of preparations for this disaster.
Then, when you look at the funding cuts, it could be that ALL of the deaths, and a good part of the destruction, are on those same hands.
-charmaine-
Miami,
At this moment I could care less who is in office. What I care about is learning from our mistakes. Many people saw this disaster coming, (just like 9/11) and we should all figure out how it could have been avoided. Otherwise, we are doomed to repeat our mistakes.
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