Quote Originally Posted by AdrianII
But in any event, there was no plan for a major strengthening. This would have taken billions of dollars and many years.
Cutting the levee budget was an easy sell I'd wager. Many conservatives didn't want to spend the money and environmentalist lefties railed against larger levee systems for their own reasons. No one was interested in investing more resources on the levees- even the NY Times called the project bad legislation and a waste of money.