tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9551285.post112601096427727657..comments2023-10-24T04:32:02.393+09:00Comments on I'm Still in Japan: fourteen secondsaggregation-isthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06989729390824403684noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9551285.post-1126043248802338932005-09-07T06:47:00.000+09:002005-09-07T06:47:00.000+09:00Actually the Administration wanted to cut funding,...Actually the Administration wanted to cut funding, but Congress restored all the cuts, so the money was there. New Orleans has famously ignored its infrastructure for years; furthermore the nation's most imperiled city, did not have an evacuation plan. This time "the Big Easy" took it too easy and got creamed. The federal government was slow to react, but a big share of the blame is at the state Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9551285.post-1126011385741667662005-09-06T21:56:00.000+09:002005-09-06T21:56:00.000+09:00Although it only got posted today, I wrote the ent...Although it only got posted today, I wrote the entry above before I'd heard any of the reports that the government had specifically nixed requests for federal funding to reinforce New Orleans levees because too much money was tied up in Iraq and Homeland Security. (http://www.counterpunch.org/cockburn08312005.html). If I'd read them before the article probably wouldn't have had the fatalist tone aggregation-isthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06989729390824403684noreply@blogger.com