Unifying Contradiction

I don't really blame the federal government for the levy problem just because they did not provide funds to improve it. This has been a known problem to New Orleans for almost 100 years. Yes, Bush tuned down the funding that would have helped improve it... but so did Clinton, and Bush Senior, and Regan in years past. Also remember that the New Orleans could have voted in their own tax dollars at anytime to fix the problem in their city. There are many ways that they could have created a tax to get the funds - Mardi Gras taxes, a 1/4% sales tax, etc. People have to take responsbility for their own cities and not rely on the Federal government to give them everything that they need. I personally don't think that it is "fair" for my tax dollars to go to reinforce a levy in Lousiana that the people of Lousiana had not already tried to resolve with their own dollars (i.e. let my tax dollars help them rather than do it all)