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Thread #86416   Message #1780013
Posted By: GUEST
10-Jul-06 - 12:11 AM
Thread Name: BS: KatrinaGate
Subject: RE: BS: KatrinaGate...
What are the amounts Bobert?

When you are caught with your ignorance showing you try to claim it was humor.

http://volokh.com/posts/1125804593.shtml

To refer to the funding decisions as "cuts" is slightly misleading. If the Army Corps of Engineers asked for additional funding and got some, but not all, of the increase they asked for, this is not a cut. And indeed, this would seem to be the situation. Overall funding for the Corps has increased every year under the Bushadministration by roughly $200 million per year; their budget rose from $4.1 billion in 2000 to $5.1 billion in 2005. Funding for flood control in the Mississippi and coastal regions (not counting emergency funding) has remained roughly constant at around $320 million per year. The Corps no doubt would prefer a budget twice this size (andsuch might be a good idea), but the fact that they have not received one does not mean that their budget has been "cut". The proper word would be "increased".