Levees Quotes

Perhaps we should look at somewhere else where they recently used the time-old bribe of tax cuts, and see how it worked. In 2000, George W. Bush, under the reasonable sounding `compassionate conservatism`, offered huge tax cuts. And he delivered. Take a look at America now. The rich are certainly richer, but the economy is in the tank, a healthy surplus has been converted into a massive deficit, and the U.S. is a place that cannot even afford the basics. Like maintaining levees in low-lying Louisiana. Might I suggest that tax cuts led indirectly to the flooding of New Orleans?.

Our primary task is to raise levees to prevent property damage, and to help local officials.

Our primary task is to raise levees to prevent property damage, and to help local officials,

What happens is there`s an increase down the road in the number of people who end up in emergency rooms and hospitals. The cost to the system is actually more. It`s the equivalent to what happened to the levees in New Orleans.

And if citizens of New Orleans who are really contemplating coming back heard that we`re really intent upon making the place secure again - regardless of whether the levees held or not - then I think a rebuilding process would really take shape.

I needed to explain that Louisiana`s coast accepts the drainage from two-thirds of the United States and, while the necessary levees constructed upstream have prevented floods, they have also contributed to problems downstream.

Obviously it was a total fiasco of lack of response. He was given warning. He knew the levees were going to break.

Levees would have been higher, levees would have been bigger, there would have been other pumps put in.