I just have to wonder: why is MY federal tax money being used to shore up the levee system around New Orleans? New Orleans is sinking. The levees are constantly sinking.
"The system is in great shape, but the levees are sinking. Everything is sinking, and if we don’t get the money fast enough to raise them, then we can’t stay ahead of the settlement," he said. "The problem that we have isn’t that the levee is low, but that the federal funds have dried up so that we can’t raise them."
The panel authorized that money, and on July 1, 2004, it had to pony up another $250,000 when it learned that stretches of the levee in Metairie had sunk by four feet. The agency had to pay for the work with higher property taxes. The levee board noted in October 2004 that the feds were also now not paying for a hoped-for $15 million project to better shore up the banks of Lake Pontchartrain.
I don’t live in N.O. I have never been there. I really was never that interested in going. It may have lots of history, but it is below sea level. And levee’s break. Remember the flooding in the Midwest in the 90’s?
Where is the money from the State of Louisiana? How about from the City of New Orleans to protect themselves? Why is it that they have to depend on tax money from the Feds to protect themselves with essentially dirt levee’s? If N.O. is dried out and rebuilt, how long till this happens again? Hopefully never. But New Orleans is slowly becoming the next Atlantis. Somehow, I do not think that living below the level of a big lake to the north is a wise idea.
