Louisiana wasted big bucks on sports stadiums that should have been spent maintaining and strengthening dikes. All the money spent on stadiums did was line the pockets of team owners.
Louisiana misdirected funds
Sep 03, 2005
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Orleans should have never been sited below sea level in the first place. The whole area is subsiding. It would be smart but expensive to forbid anyone to return to this area and to refound the town above seal level and let Lake Ponchetrain go. All the marshes and dry land along this section of the Gulf is fast disappearing because the Mississippi is no longer allowed to dump its load of sediments to replace earth lost to the sea.
Do you recommend abandonning the Netherlands, too?
It wasn't. daveA
The difference being that the Netherlands do not periodically get Cat
3-5 hurricanes.
Yes, but Al Gore has predicted one for 2010.
Thank God that Gore is not President.
No kidding!
He worked with an effective FEMA director and gave a s*it about America's poor, what an idiot!
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