money moved in presidents budget to handle homeland security and iraq war

[pauldavid]

http://www.pnionline.com/dnblog/attytood/archives/002331.html

New Orleans had long known it was highly vulnerable to flooding and a direct hit from a hurricane. In fact, the federal government has been working with state and local officials in the region since the late 1960s on major hurricane and flood relief efforts. When flooding from a massive rainstorm in May 1995 killed six people, Congress authorized the Southeast Louisiana Urban Flood Control Project, or SELA.

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Yet after 2003, the flow of federal dollars toward SELA dropped to a trickle. The Corps never tried to hide the fact that the spending pressures of the war in Iraq, as well as homeland security -- coming at the same time as federal tax cuts -- was the reason for the strain. At least nine articles in the Times-Picayune from 2004 and 2005 specifically cite the cost of Iraq as a reason for the lack of hurricane- and flood-control dollars.
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< :mad: Unbelievable. This is what happens where our leaders are incompetent>

[MissMarple]

1. So George calls this "keeping America safe". We are more insecure

than ever before, and on many more fronts than ever before. This administration is incompetent and purposefully negligent.