More Katrina Malfeasance
John Stossel has another excellent editorial detailing government failures in the Katrina disaster. Not only during the response but government goofs committed long before. One exchange stands out though:
But, surprise! It turns out Louisiana got lots of money for Corps of Engineers projects — hundreds of millions of dollars more than any other state. Congress just spent it on pork projects instead of on the levees.I confronted (Former Louisiana senator)Breaux about his own state’s pork, such as subsidies for ship builders and the sugar industry.
“I object to you using words like squander and pork,” he said. “What is pork in one part of the country is an essential project in another part.”
There is the whole problem in a nutshell. One state’s “pork” is another state’s “essential project.” This mentality is why our federal government’s budget is a runaway freight train to disaster. Of course the premise is wrong. If it is pork for one part of the country, it is pork, period. Read the whole editorial.