Saturday, September 10, 2005
"It has been explicit national policy not to set priorities, but instead to build any flood control or barge project if the Corps decides the benefits exceed the costs by 1 cent," said Tim Searchinger, a senior attorney at Environmental Defense. "Saving New Orleans gets no more emphasis than draining wetlands to grow corn and soybeans."
And who decides what projects to try to get funding for--our wonderful Legislators.
This article - Money Flowed to Questionable Projects outlines some of the pet projects carried out by the Army Corps of Engineers at the behest of Congressional leaders in Louisiana instead of flood control.
I just have to say I have never been so disgusted by our politicians. I was watching the NewsHour with Jim Lehrer and Joe Lieberman and Nancy Pelosi, both Democrats, were so excited to start their own investigation into what went wrong with the hurricane relief that they couldn't stop grinning. Their rationale for doing the investigation is that they are the heads of the Homeland Security committee, so who better to find out what went wrong. Joe Lieberman, I now have read, wanted FEMA under Homeland Security. That makes about as much sense as Bush doing an investigation. He'd probably put Mike Chertoff as head of that committee.
And who decides what projects to try to get funding for--our wonderful Legislators.
This article - Money Flowed to Questionable Projects outlines some of the pet projects carried out by the Army Corps of Engineers at the behest of Congressional leaders in Louisiana instead of flood control.
I just have to say I have never been so disgusted by our politicians. I was watching the NewsHour with Jim Lehrer and Joe Lieberman and Nancy Pelosi, both Democrats, were so excited to start their own investigation into what went wrong with the hurricane relief that they couldn't stop grinning. Their rationale for doing the investigation is that they are the heads of the Homeland Security committee, so who better to find out what went wrong. Joe Lieberman, I now have read, wanted FEMA under Homeland Security. That makes about as much sense as Bush doing an investigation. He'd probably put Mike Chertoff as head of that committee.
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