What went wrong, in general terms

Of course the Feds messed up too.

Why “of course”? Can you name something the Feds could have done that they didn’t do? “Could have” here to include physical possibility and legality.

You are asking the wrong question. The right question is – how has the Lousiana political culture of extreme corruption exceded only by managerial incompetance survived so long?

The political culture once excluded women and minorities. Opening it up over he last 30 years, thus introducing more competition, should have broght new and better leaders to prominence.

Instead, the political culture produced even worse, more corrupt, and incompenat leaders than before.

How could this be?

Tyler, the Army Corps of Engineers has had statutory responsibility for flood control on the Mississippi for 70 years now. There is a problem but it is Congress’s problem.

Could the Louisiana government and the government of the city of New Orleans have lobbied more effectively for money for flood control? No doubt. But Democrats and Republicans, liberals and conservatives have all opposed flood control spending for as long as I’ve been alive. As recently as this spring the NYT editorialized in opposition to flood control spending as “pork barrel politics”.

So the local storm surge has only gone up 1,900 feet instead of 19,000? I feel so much better.

You’re demagogging a serious issue.

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If you let the river spread out just past NO, you get a serious problem with water going downhill (INTO NO!) You also get a serious problem with navigation because the channel is going to move every high tide.

I heard a comment that NO has been our busiest port. There is a clear federal issue here. How to fix it? That’s far from clear, but we have an opportunity to make a drastic change that will work better. Hastert is right.

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A sister of a friend was late heading out of Gulfport. She stopped by my friend’s house (my friend had already headed out). A thought crossed her mind, “I could siphon gas from the jeep”. Then immediate moritification set in.

I’ve said it before, and I’ll repeat it here. The looters are poor because they consistently make poor choices. Going down to your local Walmart and “finding” jewelry is completely different from “looting” gasoline to get out.

Nobody that I’ve seen has a problem with people getting food, water, and transportation by any means that doesn’t stop others from the same. These are “finds”, or whatever other non-negative term you want.

People justifying taking flat-screen TV’s & jewelry have to resort to the usual race-based rhetoric. These are “lootings”, and if you don’t want to be called a looter, don’t do it.

If most of the people taking food & water are white (and feeling guilty for doing so), while most of the people taking TVs and jewelry are black, then white people are “finding” while black people are “looting”. I don’t want this to be true, but if it is, then the black leaders need to attack the problem in their community and quit blaming everyone else for their own problems.

Just a quick comment about Andrew Wise’s comment. We face the time-consistency problem a bit here: The government ex-ante promises not to provide more than a certain amount relief when the hurricane comes. But if the hurricane does come, political pressure is going to force the government to provide more relief than ex-ante promised. So, I think that there is some reason that just deciding what we will do in the future and sticking to it is not so easy.

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