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Originally posted by wittynickname@Aug 31 2005, 09:59 PM
Bush cut funding for FEMA, so that he could spend more on his pet project in Iraq. Don't get me wrong, I do realize that terrorism is a real threat. But frankly, mother nature can kick our asses just as badly, and, in a case like this, far more than terrorism ever has.
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Even worse. I'm listening to Canada AM right now and the engineers asked for money to improve the levees. Louissiana pleaded with the federal government for funding to make the levees higher and wider. The engineer that they are interviewing said that the funding proposal was to make the levees strong enough to withstand a category 5 because the current ones were only strong enough to withstand a weak category 3.
However, that money was denied and given to Homeland Security.