| We live in an era when the government has access to money at very low interest rates, unemployment is high, and our infrastructure is crumbling. It is self evident that the government should borrow money and put people to work repairing our infrastructure. |
| [The Army Corps of Engineers] has declared 10 percent of the levees in a new database of 2,200 federal levee systems “unacceptable,” including those protecting people in Dallas, Sacramento, St. Paul and Tulsa, Okla. About 80 percent are rated “minimally acceptable,” with many of those under orders to correct problems or risk falling into the unacceptable category. Just 9 percent of the levees in the database have been declared “acceptable.”
Source: "With Levees Rated ‘Unacceptable,’ Officials Along the Mississippi Fight Back" By JOHN SCHWARTZ - NY Times - February 4, 2012 |
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| Self evident to thinking people, which are in short supply these days, unfortunately. | Linda Denton |
3/7/2012 |
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