Well, Old Guy, just for starters, there are engineers who disagree with your Discovery Channel... And a lot of them are career engineeres who work for the Army Corpes of Engineers who propsed maintaince budgets prior to Katrina... These budgetes were funded by Bush at 20% or less...

Now, this shouldn't be rocket surgery here but anyone with some level of understanding of maintanence programs should suspect that if the guy tells you it's gonna take a hundred bucks to fix somethin' and you give him 17 bucks and tell him to do the best he can with it that somethin' ain't gonna get done right...

I don't even think this is questionable... Maybe you do... Maybe the Discovery Channel does but most folks who live in the real world don't... Now, had Bush chosen to fund the requests then we there would cwertainly be a lot less "gate" in Katrinagate... But he didn't... He was perhaps too busy with his politicin' and PR crap about "protecting the American people" to actuallyu "walk the walk"... But plenty of talk, taht much is fir sure...

Lastly, if Discovery Channel is sayin' that N.O. wouldn't have withstoof even a Cat 1 storm with full funding of Army Corpes of Engineers then I would expect that they have found some so-called "don't-worry-be-happy" engineers cut from the same cloth of Bush's so-called scientists who think that global warmin' is some kinda political trick being perpetrated against Bush and his boyz...

And lastly, Old Guy... I haven't ver backed away from your or anyone elses questions so get off yer high horse on that one... Just quit yer little sophmorish debating terick of answering one question after another with a question of yer own... It really weakens yer positions...

Bobert