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It was a State's rights issue you Liberal Gull. Feds couldn't come in until the Governor of LA asked for help. Since the President had already declared all the Gulf States a disaster area two days before the Hurricane Struck, aid was immediately available. LA Governor had 6,500 National Guard at her disposal, but had only activated 2,000, but she still could have asked for the Feds to come in immediately. Up in Baton Rouge, she hesitated. So you come in here crying a river of State's rights all the time, but this is one time, where State's rights, combined with a Governors indecision, cost a lot of lives. Plus, as I've said before, I'd never build or live in an area under sea level; even if the levee's had been built to Amsterdam specifications, it would not have stopped a tsunami. Bad news about rebuilding New Orleans, is what will happen if a tsunami, or the next New Madrid Fault earthquake hits and shifts the flow of the Mississippi? I can understand people building below sea level in the days of the French before they knew better; but how many more times will we have to bail them out? I'm not without compbuttion, but its sheer stupidity to keep rebuilding a city that is below sea level and surround by the Gulf on one side, a lake on the other, and the Mississippi River; talk about a triple threat! People saw this threat coming for decades, and no one was willing to say the obvious that no one should be living in mbutt below sea level because it wasn't politically popular. Mallard Fillmore
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