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Re: NOLA From: art fougner, md (evsono@pipeline.com) Sun Sep 11 14:21:55 2005 Messages sorted by: [ date ][ thread ][ subject ][ author ] Next message: art fougner, md: "Never Forget" Previous message: Gerald P. Rodríguez: "Saturday Humor" In reply to: Marilyn Ringstaff: "Re: NOLA" Or maybe LA Congressfolk dipping into the Pork Barrel for their own pet projects ... Snip...From Washington Post..... ...Katrina's wake, Louisiana politicians and other critics have complained about paltry funding for the Army Corps in general and Louisiana projects in particular. But over the five years of President Bush's administration, Louisiana has received far more money for Corps civil works projects than any other state, about $1.9 billion; California was a distant second with less than $1.4 billion, even though its population is more than seven times as large. Much of that Louisiana money was spent to try to keep low-lying New Orleans dry. But hundreds of millions of dollars have gone to unrelated water projects demanded by the state's congressional delegation and approved by the Corps, often after economic analyses that turned out to be inaccurate. Despite a series of independent investigations criticizing Army Corps construction projects as wasteful pork-barrel spending, Louisiana's representatives have kept bringing home the bacon. For example, after a $194 million deepening project for the Port of Iberia flunked a Corps cost-benefit analysis, Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-La.) tucked language into an emergency Iraq spending bill ordering the agency to redo its calculations. The Corps also spends tens of millions of dollars a year dredging little-used waterways such as the Mississippi River Gulf Outlet, the Atchafalaya River and the Red River -- now known as the J. Bennett Johnston Waterway, in honor of the project's congressional godfather -- for barge traffic that is less than forecast. When the dust settles or the water dries, etc, there'll be plenty of blame to go around. This gar-Bage` is inappropriate at this juncture. Of course that's just my opinion ... I could be wrong. art At Fri, 09 Sep 2005, Marilyn Ringstaff wrote: > ><< evsono@pipeline.com writes: > >>Joe, please correct me if I'm wrong but wetlands preservationists and >>environmentalists in 1977 successfully sued to block an Army Corps of >>Engineers flood prevention project that would surely have mitigated this >>disaster. >> >or maybe it was Bush, diverting the funding. . . . >http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1001051313 > >Marilyn -- art fougner, md "If you don't know where you are going, you will wind up somewhere else." Lawrence Peter Berra Next message: art fougner, md: "Never Forget" Previous message: Gerald P. Rodríguez: "Saturday Humor" In reply to: Marilyn Ringstaff: "Re: NOLA"

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