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In June, 2004, the head of New Orleans's emergency management agency said that money to protect New Orleans from hurricanes and flooding had been "moved in the president's budget to handle homeland security and the war in Iraq, and I suppose that's the price we pay. Nobody locally is happy that the levees can't be finished, and we are doing everything we can to make the case that this is a security issue for us."

An Army Corps of Engineers official said in 2004 that the levees were sinking. He begged local governments to provide the money that the feds weren't providing.

"Everything is sinking," he said, "and if we don't get the money fast enough to raise the levees, then we can't stay ahead of the sinking. The problem that we have isn't that the levee is low, but that the federal funds have dried up so that we can't raise them."

The locals kicked in a few million in funds, but it wasn't enough. Bush said he didn't have enough money for SELA, which needed about $36 million. He said he had to spend ever more money fighting wars overseas. He cut Corps of Engineers funding in 2004 and 2005, even refusing to pay for a study that would quantify the risk New Orleans faced from a severe storm like Katrina.

The Louisiana congressional delegation urged Congress earlier this year to dedicate guaranteed amount of federal money for protecting New Orleans and Louisiana's coast, but the White House opposed the funding request.
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Reason # 28405759 that G.W. is an idiot.
Sep 3, 2005

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