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I'm not sayig anyoe could have stopped the weather, or could stop the earthquakes - I just wonder if there would have been more money spent on the defenses if they'd been rich northern white folks instead of poor southern black folks.
I wouldn't be shocked to hear that more money was spent gardening in N.Y. in the last few years than was spent keeping N.O. defended.
Oil is huge business.
Oil companies make vast profits even in bad years, and yet the localities where that oil is pulled from are left to sink into the ground every year INCREASING their flood risk.
Just lstened to an interview with one of the former officers of the US Army Corps of Engineers who was re-allocated by the pentagon three years ago because he argued that more should be spent on defenses at home and less on blowig up afghan wedding parties.
How much did the federal govrnment spend on investigating the shuttle accident?
How much did the federal government spend on tax cuts for the rich?
How much did the federal government spend on keepig it's citizens safe in N.O.?
I don't know the answers to all the questions here, but I know that I'm glad I live in tax and spend Europe, rather than pay for it yourself America right now.
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