If Bond isn't being sarcastic, I think he might be simply suggesting that the levees built in sections that contribute fewer tax dollars to its construction were lower quality because, well, less money was used in their construction.
But I'm not a mind reader.
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Also, a lot of people that were supposed to leave didn't.
Call it love of home, or arrogance, but that's not in the control of the Bush administration.
I realize that evacuating a whole city is impossible, even with a week of time, but they had warnings out a week in advance.
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Most of the people left behind were poor or elderly or otherwise injured. True, there were some people who stayed behind when they shouldn't have, but a large number of them were literally unable to leave.
As for forewarnings about Katrina's effects on New Orleans, that's no surprise at all. The National Archives could have told anybody who cared to listen what a hurricane would do to the city, and those people are a bunch of librarians.