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May 12, 2008 - 8:01am.

Army Corps says Condition of many levees a mystery

Can we really AFFORD ANOTHER KATRINA?

Across America, earthen flood levees protect big cities and small towns, wealthy suburbs and rich farmland. But the Army Corps of Engineers, the federal agency that oversees levees, lacks an inventory of thousands of them and has no idea of their condition, the corps' chief levee expert told The Associated Press.

When the gov't becomes so big that it no longer can do its job, then it is time for SIGNIFICANT CHANGES so we can have a govt that will function effectually to help the people, instead of robbing the people or worse....killing them.

Critics are troubled that the government doesn't know the answer......"Once they do get an inventory," Bea said, "I think we're not going to like what we find."

I wonder how many OTHER SUPRISES we will find once the steal and spend Republican Genuises of Propaganda are no longer in power and controlling everything.

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You can chalk this one up to

You can chalk this one up to Congress once again, not the Corps of Engineers. From the story:

And while the Army Corps of Engineers has recently completed an inventory of levees it maintains or helps fund, it has no such inventory of thousands of private levees -- no idea how many there are, where they sit, what they protect, or how sturdy they are. Congress has authorized an inventory of private levees, but so far hasn't provided any money for the project.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/chi-ap-il-river...

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Same thing the other article

Same thing the other article at the link posted said. Like I pointed out....another incompetent bureaucracy (hahaha) as in Congress. Sad isn't it?

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Small Business, Big Disaster

Small Business, Big Disaster

Add the Small Business Administration as just another incompetent Bureaucracy that no longer is capable of doing what it was set up to do!

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