{"id":3624,"date":"2005-09-08T18:39:15","date_gmt":"2005-09-09T01:39:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/index.php\/archives\/2005\/09\/08\/louisiana-pork\/"},"modified":"2005-09-08T18:39:15","modified_gmt":"2005-09-09T01:39:15","slug":"louisiana-pork","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2005\/09\/08\/louisiana-pork\/","title":{"rendered":"Louisiana Pork"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\t\tRemember last week when all the Democrats were saying that Bush cheaped-out on the New Orleans levees because he’d rather kill Iraqis? Like so much of what we heard, this was total crap:<\/a><\/p>\n

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In Katrina’s wake, Louisiana politicians and other critics have complained about paltry funding for the Army Corps in general and Louisiana projects in particular. But over the five years of President Bush’s administration, Louisiana has received far more money for Corps civil works projects than any other state, about $1.9 billion; California was a distant second with less than $1.4 billion, even though its population is more than seven times as large.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The Post goes on to say that the Army Corps is a micro-managed agency thanks to earmarks directing its funding to specific projects. You want new locks, you can forget about higher levees. That’s life.<\/p>\n

H\/t Protein Wisdom<\/a>.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Remember last week when all the Democrats were saying that Bush cheaped-out on the New Orleans levees because he’d rather kill Iraqis? Like so much of what we heard, this was total crap: In Katrina’s wake, Louisiana politicians and other critics have complained about paltry funding for the Army Corps in general and Louisiana projects … Continue reading “Louisiana Pork”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbifyw-Ws","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3624","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3624"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3624\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}