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Proof that our government has WAY too much money…

After Katrina, teams of planners recommended that broad swaths of vulnerable neighborhoods be abandoned. Yet all areas of the city have at least some residents beginning to rebuild. With billions of dollars in federal relief for homeowners trickling in, more people are expected to follow.

Moreover, while new federal guidelines call for raising houses to reduce the damage of future floods, most returning homeowners do not have to comply or are finding ways around the costly requirement, according to city officials.

"It's terrifying: We're doing the same things we have in the past but expecting different results," said Robert G. Bea, a professor of civil engineering at the University of California at Berkeley and a former New Orleans resident who served as a member of the National Science Foundation panel that studied the city's levees.

That's right, the city that is below sea level.  The city that is virtually guaranteed to get destroyed again.  They are rebuilding it.  With your tax dollars.  Not only that but they are even rebuilding the lowest parts.

Half of the residents haven't even returned to the city.  There is plenty of room, they wouldn't even need to rebuilt the low-lying areas.  Take your federal money and rebuild in an area where Spongebob isn't gonna move in next door in a few years.

I'm only slightly disgruntled that I'm paying to rebuild a city that's just going to be destroyed again.  I'm pissed off that isn't even being rebuilt correctly.   It used to be that we built things in this country to last, now we build them just because we can.

Anyone remember what happens when you subsidize something?  That's right, you get more of it.  So now we're subsidizing idiocy.  Guess what morons?  Mother Nature doesn't give a shit about political correctness or diversity.  She's the ultimate unbiased participant.  Of course, she also tends to patterns.  If it flooded once, it's likely to do it again. 

Of course, if they had any sort of leadership down there, we might not have this problem.  Unfortunately, the same idiots that think it's okay to rebuild in the same place also voted in their idiot mayor Nagin.  I suppose one explains the other.  I read recently that New Orleans was slowly sliding into the Gulf.  Any way we can use some of that federal money to speed up the process?