New Orleans was MURDERED (Score 1)

This city was murdered by its own politicians, the City Hall Gang, the "Laughing Murderers of City Hall".When the plans for those shallow, worthless floodwalls along the drainage canals were first proposed by the Corps of Engineers, the veteran engineers of the Sewage & Water Board, who knew the soil conditions, objected.Then mayor "Slimy Sidney" Barthelemy PURGED them, replacing them with flunkies.These stooges later dredged the canals in such a way as to deliberately weaken the floodwalls further.Even the Corps got nervous now, and wanted to build gates at the mouths of the canals which could be closed to prevent flooding. It was the Sewage & Water Board(IE. The City Hall Gang) that REFUSED to allow this to be done. Why pass up the graft from a federal project. Because the politicians knew that far richer pickings would come their way if the city was flooded by the next hurricane, GRAFT from the BILLIONS in Federal "disaster relief",which has in fact virtually all gone into the pockets of the POLITICIANS, not their VICTIMS.