http://levees.org Your source for information on levee and flood protection nationwide. Fri, 10 Feb 2012 19:48:10 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://levees.org/faq/congress-gave-you-110-billion-isnt-that-enough/comment-page-1/#comment-1244 The Greenroom » Forum Archive » Everything you know about Hurricane Katrina is wrong. Fri, 28 Aug 2009 22:20:01 +0000 http://levees.org/2/?page_id=320#comment-1244 [...] As to federal money spent rebuilding New Orleans… aside from the fact that we’ve been pouring money into the federal coffers since the Eisenhower administration, receiving no offshore royalties for drilling while other states got 50%… and that 10,000 miles worth of navigation canals used to support the petroleum industry and benefit the entire country have weakened our natural wetlands protection against storms… and that 62% of the public relies on goods which pass through our port, which is as far upstream as it can be and still be a deep-water port, as well as the busiest and fourth-largest in the world, and the largest in the US…   we’re the second largest fishery in the country… and remember those gasoline price spikes after Katrina when our refineries were shut down?  Aside from those reasons why New Orleans should continue to exist, federal taxpayers have spent a lot less than you might think toward the rebuilding. Second, the $110 billion that New Orleans supposedly got was a total sham. [...] [...] As to federal money spent rebuilding New Orleans… aside from the fact that we’ve been pouring money into the federal coffers since the Eisenhower administration, receiving no offshore royalties for drilling while other states got 50%… and that 10,000 miles worth of navigation canals used to support the petroleum industry and benefit the entire country have weakened our natural wetlands protection against storms… and that 62% of the public relies on goods which pass through our port, which is as far upstream as it can be and still be a deep-water port, as well as the busiest and fourth-largest in the world, and the largest in the US…   we’re the second largest fishery in the country… and remember those gasoline price spikes after Katrina when our refineries were shut down?  Aside from those reasons why New Orleans should continue to exist, federal taxpayers have spent a lot less than you might think toward the rebuilding. Second, the $110 billion that New Orleans supposedly got was a total sham. [...]

]]> http://levees.org/faq/congress-gave-you-110-billion-isnt-that-enough/comment-page-1/#comment-1243 Everything you know about Hurricane Katrina is wrong. : Pursuing Holiness Fri, 28 Aug 2009 22:14:25 +0000 http://levees.org/2/?page_id=320#comment-1243 [...] As to federal money spent rebuilding New Orleans… aside from the fact that we’ve been pouring money into the federal coffers since the Eisenhower administration, receiving no offshore royalties for drilling while other states got 50%… and that 10,000 miles worth of navigation canals used to support the petroleum industry and benefit the entire country have weakened our natural wetlands protection against storms… and that 62% of the public relies on goods which pass through our port, which is as far upstream as it can be and still be a deep-water port, as well as the busiest and fourth-largest in the world, and the largest in the US…   we’re the second largest fishery in the country… and remember those gasoline price spikes after Katrina when our refineries were shut down?  Aside from those reasons why New Orleans should continue to exist, federal taxpayers have spent a lot less than you might think toward the rebuilding. Second, the $110 billion that New Orleans supposedly got was a total sham. [...] [...] As to federal money spent rebuilding New Orleans… aside from the fact that we’ve been pouring money into the federal coffers since the Eisenhower administration, receiving no offshore royalties for drilling while other states got 50%… and that 10,000 miles worth of navigation canals used to support the petroleum industry and benefit the entire country have weakened our natural wetlands protection against storms… and that 62% of the public relies on goods which pass through our port, which is as far upstream as it can be and still be a deep-water port, as well as the busiest and fourth-largest in the world, and the largest in the US…   we’re the second largest fishery in the country… and remember those gasoline price spikes after Katrina when our refineries were shut down?  Aside from those reasons why New Orleans should continue to exist, federal taxpayers have spent a lot less than you might think toward the rebuilding. Second, the $110 billion that New Orleans supposedly got was a total sham. [...]

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