What would have been different if the Disaster Relief Programs
Maraya1969
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Wed Aug-31-05 02:39 PM
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| What would have been different if the Disaster Relief Programs |
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had not been cut before Katrina? I just read this in another thread and I want to know if there were specific things that money that went to Iraq WOULD have done here to save lives and/or property.
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Wed Aug-31-05 02:41 PM
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| 1. I Understand The Army Corps of Engineers Had a Budgeted Item |
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of something like $100 million to strengthen the 17th St Canal levee. And that that line item was cut back specifically due to the war in Iraq.
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| demo dutch
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Wed Aug-31-05 02:44 PM
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| 2. True but deterioration has been going on for quite a while. Prevention is |
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a dirty word. Officials and politicians have been holding their fingers crossed for years, this has been a distaster waiting to happen for years now.
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