this is something too important to pass over......
So yeah, you have to pay a huge amount of money at the gas station to fill your tank......you think this is a result of the natural disater hurricane katrina right? me too, i mean 35 percent of AMerica's oil comes through the port of New Orleans, but where does most of the of the northeast's oil come from(New York, Vermont, all the way down to delaware, and Maryland)? you guessed it.....New Orleans....if we had been better prepared for the catastrophe we would have been better able to handle this desperate situation. This is a direct quotation from the UB magazine, called the Generation which is the most read student run magazine on the north eastern coast.....
After massive flooding in 1995, Congress created the Southeast Louisiana Urban Flood Control Project, or SELA, an initiative that was basically designed to stop New Orleans from becoming part of the Gulf of Mexico through the systematic construction and repairs on levees and pumps by the Army Corps of Engineers. So why then could the city be, by most accounts, uninhabitable for years, without full recovery for several decades, if ever? Well, my friends, much like his gross negligence of the Al-Qaeda situation in 2001, Bush ignored the problem by cutting more than 44 percent out of the SELA budget since 2001, including an 80 percent cut in 2004, as reported by Sidney Blumenthal in a recent Salon.com article. I’ll give you one guess where that money went. IRAQ. As a result, the unfinished and shabby levees burst quickly, creating a Sea World-like environment out of New Orleans that cannot be drained fast enough with the outdated pipes.
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E. coli and other diseases spread just as fast as flood water, and will kill just as many if help does not get to those peopla. I do not want to come off as a reactionary, but when something so terrible happens, and your government takes 2 days to even RESPOND to the event.............
i dont believe in god. so whatever god you believe in...may he help us all....
After massive flooding in 1995, Congress created the Southeast Louisiana Urban Flood Control Project, or SELA, an initiative that was basically designed to stop New Orleans from becoming part of the Gulf of Mexico through the systematic construction and repairs on levees and pumps by the Army Corps of Engineers. So why then could the city be, by most accounts, uninhabitable for years, without full recovery for several decades, if ever? Well, my friends, much like his gross negligence of the Al-Qaeda situation in 2001, Bush ignored the problem by cutting more than 44 percent out of the SELA budget since 2001, including an 80 percent cut in 2004, as reported by Sidney Blumenthal in a recent Salon.com article. I’ll give you one guess where that money went. IRAQ. As a result, the unfinished and shabby levees burst quickly, creating a Sea World-like environment out of New Orleans that cannot be drained fast enough with the outdated pipes.
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E. coli and other diseases spread just as fast as flood water, and will kill just as many if help does not get to those peopla. I do not want to come off as a reactionary, but when something so terrible happens, and your government takes 2 days to even RESPOND to the event.............
i dont believe in god. so whatever god you believe in...may he help us all....