The Army Corps of Engineers has released their budget to show that Louisiana received more federal aid than any other state over the past 5 years and much more than under the Clinton Administration. This announcement seems to undercut Democrat accusations that the Bush administration caused the levee failures by cutting Corps funding. Not True!
In fact, Louisiana receives much more than California with five times the ocean front, five times the ports, and seven times the population. A closer review of the budget by the Washington Post highlights breathtaking abuse of our federal dollars. One project to the tune of almost $800 million is rebuilding virtually unused locks on one of the canals. A $20 million repair to the old locks was turned down by Democrats. So Senator Landreaux then sneaked the $800 million into a Iraq funding bill.
The Washington Post says that the vast majority of the Corps' funding is not used for flood control but rather unrelated pork projects for Louisiana Democrats. Yet it is they and their brethren that are shrill in their personal attacks on the president and every person he's ever met in his lifetime. Even then, the Corps says that the levees that failed were recently overhauled and were the best and strongest money could buy. That fact seems to get lost in minority congresswoman Pelosi's and minority Senator Reid's rants and character assassinations.
These revelations further underscore that some in government care little about facts. These are the same "truthtellers" that are demanding we stop our economic expansion for global warming action. Now how can any reasonable person believe these misguided and often truth challenged people? We can't. Recent efforts to identify the "experts" that found global warming and those who tested their conclusions, are coming up short of answers. For some of us that's not surprising. Climate change is real, but global warming is a political and eco-religious movement.
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