"Feds to Rebuild New Orleans Levees"

[GreenPartyVoter]

WASHINGTON (AP) - President Bush is requesting $1.5 billion more to help make the levee system in New Orleans stronger than it was before Hurricane Katrina struck the Gulf Coast.

At a news briefing at the White House, officials dodged the question of whether the levees would be built to withstand a Category 5 hurricane, using broader language instead to promise that the city's citizens would be safe and the levees would be "stronger and better."

"The federal government is committed to building the best levee system known in the world," Donald Powell, the top U.S. official for reconstruction, told reporters. "It's a complicated issue."

The money the president is requesting is in addition to the $1.6 billion he has already committed to repair the breeches in the levees, correct the design and construction flaws and bring the levee to a height that was authorized before the hurricane, a Category 4 storm, hit on Aug. 29, killing more than 1,300 people.

http://apnews1.iwon.com/article/20051215/D8EGRGQ82.html

[OrangeCountyDemocrat]

1. Does The Bridge Over Lake Ponchatrain Come With That?

If not, I'll gladly sell it to you. Buy the story about the levees, get a bridge Free!

File this under the "Never To Be Seen In My Lifetime" file, right alongside all the other garbage they've sold us on these past few years.

[GreenPartyVoter]

2. And don't forget the accurate body count. That will come with the levees

too.

[sabaean]

3. Candidate from Louisiana

Stacey Tallitsch
Democrat for Congress
Louisiana First District

http://www.lafirst.org