[Rhodes22-list] P-NO Water Flooding Back In

[Bill Effros]

Rik,

Not to beat a dead horse, but I just saw the water is flooding back into 
New Orleans again. 

Apparently the water never over-topped the levees in the first place.  
The last I saw, the levees were not built properly, and simply broke.

To me, and I think Brad, we can argue the merits of whether the levees 
should be there or not all day; but once that fight has been fought, and 
the levees are in place, it is the responsibility of somebody to ensure 
that the levees are built properly. 

I have long had a lot of trouble with the Army Corps of Engineers.  As 
far as I'm concerned, it's a pork barrel outfit doing a pork barrel job 
with port barrel results. 

Sure, they have done some things well, even admirably.   But you can't 
trust a word they say, because their ultimate goal is to just keep 
building, regardless of the merits of the project.

Pretty fiscally conservative, huh?

Bill Effros