You can't change politics
through technology.
Trust me.:)
Joe Chiusano
> 1. The conditions of the levees and dikes are
well-known in
> emergency planning circles. Requests for funding to
repair
> them have been routinely turned down.
Congress started
funding the Southeast Louisiana (SELA) Urban Flood Control
Project in 1995.
SELA was a long-term capital works project. The U.S. Army Corp
of Engineers
spent more than $400 million on levees and pumps.
The project was not
complete, but in 2003, the funding was cut. Last year the
Corps of Engineers
requested $65 million, but the administration cut the SELA
funding to $10.4
million.
March 2005 US Army Corp of Engineers SELA Project Fact
Sheet
http://www.mvn.usace.army.mil/pd/Funding_Programs/Current/CGSELAFY06.pdf
Would
those same decisions have been made if budget proposals for the US,
UK,
Canada, and other nations were available on the web, with RSS feeds for
programs
marked for big cuts or big
increases?
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