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The truth may be that no addional money was ever appropriated for upgrading the levees to meet NOAA projections for category 4 and above hurricanes in the Gulf. The US government is broke and whether a war in Iraq or infrastructure in this country gets funded depends on political clout and increasing our national debt. Jesse Jackson has neither political clout or money. I don't think is he is the only critic either. This storm, I assume will start our country thinking about long term infrastructure improvements. It could start with upgrading railroad bridges and increasing double track routes. Putting them high and dry and making them always accessible. Some of the large pumps used to empty the New Orleans bowl had to come from Europe. Imagine if we had strategically located pumps and large generatrors stationed at military basis ready to roll by train at a moments notice. Remember the old Lionel GM generator car. Was there ever such a thing in real life? I live near Boston where the state and federal government just completed the Big Dig at a cost in access of 15 billion. Still the North and South Stations are not connected by rail. Don from Boston (used to be hoodunits GP9FL9)
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