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overdue in Louisiana for decades, all the way back into my youth when the scaremongers were prattling about “another Ice Age”. The real Katrina “problem” is the Louisiana zoning boards who, for over a century, allowed development below sea level, then demanded that the nation’s taxpayers build levees to protect their investments (unsurprisingly, a national government always had enough other priorities....). Abysmal local responses merely ensured that the devastation would be more painful. But, of course, Personal Responsibility and local officials’ failures were
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