Another levee about to fail, no big deal says Governor Jindal

[w¡n9Nµ7 §£@¥€r 123]

Jindal said a private levee south of New Orleans was in danger of failing after a day of heavy rain and pounding storm surge from Hurricane Gustav. About 300 to 400 homes were in danger of flooding, he said.

"This not the same thing as a large metropolitan area filling up with water," he said, saying it was not nearly as serious as when levees were breached during Hurricane Katrina in 2005.

http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/weather/09/01/gustav/index.html

[peejay 327]

He has a point. If some clown decides to build a private levee, why should gummit jump out it's azz if it fails?

If a hot shot developer builds a subdivision of vacation homes on the beachfront in hurricane alley, idiots buy them, and a hurricane levels the damned thing...why should the taxpayer have to shell out to rebuild it or give them zero interest loans to do so?

The government should not be into private risk management with public taxpayer funds. This should not be the role of government. No wonder the deficit keeps climbing higher and higher.

If the private sector won't insure it or the owners can't afford the premiums, maybe these structures never should have been built in these locations in the first place. Is this rocket science or beyond most people's comprehension? Apparently it is!

[IAMX 3,055]

I don't get the video. That's not exactly beachfront.

[peejay 327]

I don't get the video. That's not exactly beachfront.

It's not exactly a suitable place to build either. That's the point.

[Niels Bohr 72]

ROFL

[IAMX 3,055]

I don't get the video. That's not exactly beachfront.

It's not exactly a suitable place to build either. That's the point.

It's smack in the middle of the 9th Ward. I see no better place, given all of the other areas surrounding it that have homes and industrial.

Still, this it not beachfront. It's next to a ###### canal.

Edited September 2, 2008 by SRVT