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  This is a bunch of government propaganda! The great piles of waste should be used where it is to raise the ground level in the flood areas to reduce the impact of flooding in the future! Of course this assumes the rebuilding should take place where it used to be -- a ridiculous decision to begin with! New Orleans should not be rebuilt whether it is chocolate or not! New Orleans should be moved to higher ground and out of the scope of the Army Corps of Engineers. The Corps is costing us millions in useless and destructive water works and has for years. It is time to reduce the Corps' budget and manpower. Every Corps member hired here has turned out to be a big mistake and led to a total downgrade in our mission. Stop wasting money in New Orleans and do not allow the Army corps to contract for any of the rebuilding -- they are incompetent! The Corps of today does not even come close to the high standards of yesterday's Corps.

  Taxpayer Posted January 19, 2006 6:18 AM
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  Gunny,

  For you to whine about Democrats not accepting responsibility is the worst kind of hypocrisy, a hallmark of the Bush administration. Why don't you clean up your own house before complaining about the dirt in someone else's? I agree that the Democrats need new ideas and stronger leadership but no administration, save perhaps Nixon's (and who are the holdovers from Nixon's administration -- Rumsfailed and the Duke of Dick Cheney), have sullied the reputation and credibility of America like the fascists currently in power. Now these folks, "led" by two cowards who did everything possible to avoid service in Vietnam, are attempting to smear Murtha's war record. How low do they have to stoop before die hard Bush automatons wake up?

  GovExec.com reader Posted January 17, 2006 7:26 AM
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  Hey "Cracked and Wired" or should I say "Creampuff and Wimpy",

  You need to get with the program pal! Quit harping about Cheney, Halliburton, Bush, and the rest of the administration. The old argument of them being greed-mongers is getting tiresome and smacks of sophomoric rhetoric. While I don't espouse to their dealings in some matters, when are the Democrats going to get serious and take a look at their own trash? What happened to all the federal money given for levee maintenance/improvement? What about the bad or, better yet, lack of decisions made by Mayor "No Noggin'" Nagin, the Louisiana governor, and the rest of the liberal mopes running that state? Oh yeah, who paid the bill for Democratic Sen. William Jefferson to have National Guard trucks and helicopters ferry him around to get his skeletons out of his house while thousands of unfortunate souls were in desperate need of assistance? Don't look for Ted "Last Call" Kennedy, "Puff" Daschle, Dirty Harry, or the rest of your icons to grow stones and step up to say anything. They can't because they're not capable of accepting responsibility; only appointing unfounded blame and speculation.

  The Gunny

  GovExec.com reader Posted January 13, 2006 9:01 AM
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  Why bother to remove it? In fact, the entire country should ship their garbage there for six months to build up the area above sea level.

  GovExec.com reader Posted January 13, 2006 5:41 AM
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  Hey Disgruntled,
  Get with the program, Halliburton, Cheney, their puppet Bush, Tom "The Hammer" DeLay, Frist and the rest of the greed-mongers need your money. Hell, make a donation to the U.S. Treasury because there is a war on terror and that SOB Bin Laden is a more slippery devil than we were told so all we can do is keep invading countries till we corner him, and that is way expensive. Besides, it has been costing big bucks to secure the Mexican border!

  Cracked & Wired Posted January 10, 2006 12:28 PM
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  Who is paying for this again? The city? The state? Red Cross? Oh, that's right-me! Of course, out of my tax dollar, maybe 10 cents will actually go to the effort. The rest will be gobbled by pork.

  No wonder they call me.

  Disgruntled Posted January 10, 2006 10:54 AM