Read it and seethe (I did!)

[JGalanos]

http://www.time.com/time/specials/2007/article/0,28804,1646611_1646683_1648904,00.html

 

The basic problem is that protecting New Orleans from deadly storms was never anyone's top priority. That's why the city's main hurricane project was 37 years behind schedule when Katrina hit. Louisiana's congressional delegation steered Corps funds toward boondoggles that had nothing to do with flood protection, like a $2 billion effort to channelize the Red River for barges that never materialized.