that's called "bad economics." what do you think it's going to cost to repair the levees now? what do you think it's going to cost to drain the city? to rebuild it? to jump-start industry? to pay families to help replace their losses?
Well, that's an interesting question, but I think it's a lot easier to get money through Congress to fix a problem than prevent it.
Additionally, I wonder who would have had to pay for upgrades to teh levee system if the nola wanted it? Would it have come out of their coffers?
Then there's this question -- is it even possible to design a levee system that'll protect nola from a Cat5? It may be one of those situations where a Cat3 protection is 250million, cat4 is 1.3billion, cat5 is 2.8 trillion. I'm TOTALLY making up those numbers, but you understand where I'm going with this.
I live in Los Angeles. We COULD protect every building in the city from a 10.0 earthquake, but what would it cost to do that?
Prevention may not be the answer, however, it's ridiculous that we didn't have people on the ground faster, that we didn't have everyone out of Nola because they didn't have cars.
And, Bush was on VACATION! Bush has been president for 5 years. How many goddamn vacations does he need? He takes a month off twice a year?!?! The last vacation I got was the summer before he was elected, and that was my damn honeymoon.
I'm sorry, but if you want that job, you don't get to take months off. Especially when you KNOW a disaster is headed right at the south cost.
I bet it comes out later there was an intelligence briefing that was ignored: "Katrina determined to strike the US"
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