[Rhodes22-list] P-NO Water Flooding Back In

[Rik Sandberg]

Bill,

Honest answer:

Yeah, I really can't argue with that.

Self perpetuating jobs is the goal of most gov't employees, is it not??

I never really argued whether the levees were built right or not. I simply said that the budget cuts that were made *this year* would have made very little difference in the outcome. The areas that turned out to be the problem were not the areas that were even planned for renovation or improvement.

Rik

-----Original Message-----
From: Bill Effros <bill at effros.com>
Sent: Sep 23, 2005 10:24 AM
To: R22 List <rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org>
Subject: [Rhodes22-list] P-NO Water Flooding Back In

Rik,

Not to beat a dead horse, but I just saw the water is flooding back into 
New Orleans again. 

Apparently the water never over-topped the levees in the first place.  
The last I saw, the levees were not built properly, and simply broke.

To me, and I think Brad, we can argue the merits of whether the levees 
should be there or not all day; but once that fight has been fought, and 
the levees are in place, it is the responsibility of somebody to ensure 
that the levees are built properly. 

I have long had a lot of trouble with the Army Corps of Engineers.  As 
far as I'm concerned, it's a pork barrel outfit doing a pork barrel job 
with port barrel results. 

Sure, they have done some things well, even admirably.   But you can't 
trust a word they say, because their ultimate goal is to just keep 
building, regardless of the merits of the project.

Pretty fiscally conservative, huh?

Bill Effros
__________________________________________________
Use Rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org, Help? www.rhodes22.org/list