It seems that the New York Times was against levee and drainage projects in Louisiana before they were for them. Unfortunately, the paper didn't come out for those projects until after Hurricane Katrina.

Look at this from April.

"Anyone who cares about responsible budgeting and the health of America's rivers and wetlands should pay attention to a bill now before the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works. The bill would shovel $17 billion at the Army Corps of Engineers for flood control and other water-related projects, this at a time when President Bush is asking for major cuts in Medicaid and other important domestic programs. Among these projects is a $2.7 billion boondoggle on the Mississippi River that has twice flunked inspection by the National Academy of Sciences.

"This is a bad piece of legislation."

The legislation, S. 728, would have spent $512 million on hurricane and storm damage reduction.

Now the Times wants is complaining that money wasn't given to the Corps of Engineers for hurricane and storm damage reduction projects.

I guess hindsight is 20/20.

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