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Sept. 8, 2005 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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September 8, 2005, Thursday, Hour #3
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And a pleasant greetings and welcome back, thrill seekers, conversationalists, and music lovers all across the fruit and play in the award-winning thrill-packed, ever exciting and increasing popular Rush Limbaugh program back.
Final hour officially underway.
I am America's anchor man, America's truth detector, talent, on loan from God.
Before we bury Mary Landrew, this little story here, Governor Schwarzenegger announced yesterday that he will veto a bill that would allow gay marriages in California.
The governor said that the legislation given final approval Tuesday by lawmakers would conflict with the intent of voters.
When they approved a ballot initiative five years ago's Prop 22 prevents California from recognizing same-sex marriages performed in other states or countries.
I had to do a double take when I read this.
I haven't heard this phrase will of the people in so long that I had to almost had to go to a dictionary to define what it meant.
Uh, you don't hear about this much in politics and the will of the people, So I said, hmm, wait a minute now.
Rush, hold on.
There's a meaning here somewhere.
Stop and think of this, folks.
Five years ago, the people of California voted to ban in a ballot initiative, and they're totally uh legal in California, to ban gay marriage.
This year, the state legislature said, you, you, you, you.
And passed a bill anyway.
And they sent it to Terminator.
Now Terminator, I think, with this veto, Schwarzenegger has essentially ended his movie career.
Schwarzenegger is essentially with his veto says, okay, I am I'm retiring from movies because he'll never get one again after uh after this veto.
Uh for for him, a courageous move here, but it is courageous, but will of the people.
Will of the people voted.
Somebody stood up actually for the will of the people out there once.
Now Democratic Assembly members, after the governor's announcements, uh bill was only symbolic, they expected the veto.
That's BS.
They didn't, they expected this thing to pass.
They expected Governor Schwarzenegger to pass it because they wanted to sign it because they thought he would see his 36% approval number, and oh, this is a way to get back in the good graces of the people of the state.
They're covering their rear ends now by saying the bill was only symbolic.
They worked hard to get this bill passed out there, the Democratic Assembly members.
Expect the veto.
Okay, so let's take him at their words.
Let's say the Democrats in the California Assembly, we were just engaging in something symbolic.
So they admit they're just using the gay population of California.
Just kicking them around like a football, just using them, huh?
I mean, if you that's the way you want us to play it, Democrats in the assembly, we'll play it that way.
But I happen to believe the op.
I happen to believe that you wanted to go against the will of the people.
You are Democrats.
That's what you have to do to win normally is go against the will of the people.
And in this case, you're trying to curry favor, and you're trying to pressure the governor to sign it based on his 36% approval number.
You want to know what else?
Watch that approval number go up now.
People will be stunned if that happens.
In California, bro.
Sorry, California?
How can it go up in California banning gay marriage?
Well, the people already did it.
If this was symbolic, why even take the chance he might sign it?
Nothing symbolic about this.
This was this is pure and simple.
The Democrats on the march out there saying the people don't know what's best for them.
People don't know what's right.
Screw you people.
Hell with your Prop 22 vote.
We're gonna make this the law of the state anyway.
We got a weakened governor here's got to sign it.
So the governor stood up and said, if you did not sign this.
I'm gonna veto it and bamboo.
Just watch his approval numbers, folks.
Anyone want to take any wagers what happens to his approval numbers out in California?
What do you think is gonna happen, Snerdley?
What's gonna happen is approval numbers of 36%.
What's gonna happen to Governor Schwarzenegger's app?
Snerdley thinks Sterley says, I think you're right, they'll go up.
Sterley didn't say, they'll go up.
Snurdly said, I think you're right.
Everybody wants to hide behind my skirt.
All right.
Mary Landrew.
You know, I've always I've always liked Mary Landrew.
I really I must confess, I've I've thought she's cute.
Uh she's she's she's got sort of baby fat still on her.
She's cute.
She's cute.
And she's bubbly and she's vivacious.
I've always been, I've always been partial to women named Mary anyway.
And she's she's voted a couple of times, three times.
Uh, you know, she's she's she is a swing vote in the Senate.
She does, not with a lot of fanfare, but she does veer away from the kooks in that party's leadership now and then.
So I have to confess that I'm disappointed here.
Uh I know that she's in the midst of a lot of stress, and I know she's feeling a lot of pressure, and I I'm guessing that the Democratic leadership has gone to her and say we need you to cut loose and say what we want you to say here.
Uh, because we got a political opportunity that doesn't come along uh very often.
We got a great chance to sink Bush here, and since you're from Louisiana where this happened, we think you'd be a good one to carry the water.
I I I don't know that that's the case, I wouldn't be surprised.
So she went to the floor of the Senate today, and this is what she said.
We know the president said, quote, I don't think anybody anticipated the breach of the levies.
Everybody anticipated the breach of the levies, Mr. President, including computer stimulations in which this administration participated.
Even a clay figurine, Mr. Bill from Saturday Night Live anticipated the breach.
His creator, a friend of mine, has used him in public service announcements for over two years, public servants announcements, saying this will be the effect if this happens.
How can it be that Mr. Bill was better informed than Mr. Bush?
All right.
Now, uh this is a painful for me to do, ladies and gentlemen.
But once again, a person from the state of Louisiana, who has had countless years and opportunities to do something about this, apparently cannot show us the legislation she has presented to prepare these levies for category five.
Remember, these levies are built to category three.
Americans are pouring billions of dollars into her state.
No thanks to her, by the way.
And a thank you would be nice, but we're not going to get a thank you in this period, folks, because we're not going to get gratitude because the plan is to blame, blame, blame, blame, blame.
Everything's going wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong.
So in the middle of everything going wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong, in the middle of all kinds of incompetence, how can you express gratitude?
But Mary, Senator, uh question for you.
Where the hell were you?
And where the hell was your daddy moon, Landrew?
And where was your little brother?
They've all run that state, and they've run that city for who knows how long.
I want to see the bill, Senator Landrew, in which you got Senator Dashell and your colleagues to vote for billions of dollars to build a levy system with Stand a Cat Five.
I want to see the legislation that you proposed.
You've been there since the Clinton administration.
I'm not talking about money for the levy system.
I'm talking about money to build a cat five levy system.
Senator Landrew, Louisiana is number one in Army Corps of Engineer funding.
The Army Corps of Engineers gets more money to spend in Louisiana than any other state in this country.
Where is the Cat Five levy system?
It is time to investigate your family, Senator Landrew.
It's time to investigate your little brother and your daddy moon and everybody else, your family, your whole party.
It's time to investigate Louisiana to find out why all the money that was sent down there somehow didn't reach the levies.
Senator Reed, I think you need to realize that Senator Landrew is doing More to turn off the American people than anyone, and that's saying something.
She used to be angelic compared to the rest of you, but with this, when this gets out, she's doing more to turn off the American people who are giving everything.
They're opening their homes.
They are sending dollars.
They are sending supplies.
They have made it a focus to help out in these last seven or eight days.
And to send Senator Landrew out and once again try to pass the block buck and make this a political thing.
And President Bush is not serving your cause.
The other day, what was it on Stephanopoulos?
She was crying and threatening to punch out the president.
I guess that didn't get enough attention.
I guess that didn't get enough reverberation, and so they had to send her out to say this today.
But she's in over her head on this, perhaps too emotionally impacted by it.
Senator Landrew, you perhaps should have read your own House organ today before you went on to the floor of the Senate.
Stand by and I will read to you relevant facts from a Washington Post story today that had you known, you would not gone to the floor of the Senate and made such a fool of yourself.
Back in just a second.
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Here's Mary Landrew again, just to refresh your memory on this.
We know the president said, quote, I don't think anybody anticipated the breach of the levies.
Everybody anticipated the breach of the levies, Mr. President, including computer stimulations in which this administration participated.
Even the clay figurine, Mr. Bill from Saturday Night Live, anticipated the breach.
His creator, a friend of mine, has used him in public service announcements for over two years, public servants' announcements, saying this will be the effect if this happens.
How can it be that Mr. Bill was better informed than Mr. Bush?
How can it be that you, as the senator from that state, didn't do a damn thing about it if everybody knew?
Where was your daddy?
Where was your little brother?
Where's the legislation you introduced to Tom Dashl when he was the majority leader to get this done?
Everybody says, yep, they'll handle a cat three, but nothing higher.
Certainly not a Cat Five.
Where was the legislation to fix these and move them up to a Cat Five?
We need to investigate Louisiana, Mary Landrew's family, and the Democratic Party down there from the Washington Post today.
Here's the headline: Money flowed to questionable projects.
Louisiana leads in Army Corps spending, but millions had nothing to do with the floods before Hurricane Katrina breached the levy on the New Orleans Industrial Canal.
The Army Corps of Engineers had already launched a 470 or 748 million dollar construction project at that very location.
But the project had nothing to do with flood control.
The Corps was building a new lock for the canal, an effort to accommodate steadily increasing barge traffic.
Except that barge traffic on the canal has been steadily decreasing.
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 listen to this, Senator Landrew.
Over the five years of President Bush's administration, Louisiana has received far more money for core civil works projects than any other state.
About 1.9 billion dollars.
California was a distant second with less than 1.4 billion, even though its population is more than seven times as large.
Much of the Louisiana money was spent to try to keep low-lying New Orleans dry, but hundreds of millions of dollars have gone to unrelated projects demanded by the state's congressional delegation and approved by the Corps often after economic analyses that turned out to be inaccurate.
Despite a series of independent investigations criticizing the Army Corps construction projects as wasteful, Louisiana's representatives have kept bringing home the bacon.
For example, after a 194 million dollar deepening project for the port of Iberia flunked a core cost-benefit analysis, Senator Mary Landrew tucked language into an emergency Iraq spending bill, ordering the agency to redo its calculations so that the money would get spent.
Can I read this to you again so you understand this?
Mary Landrieu cooked the books.
After a 194 million dollar deepening project for the Port of Iberia flunked, a core cost benefit analysis.
Senator Mary Landrew tucked language into an emergency Iraq spending bill, ordering the agency, the Corps of Engineers, to redo its calculations.
In other words, cook the books so that the cost-benefit analysis works.
Because we want the money.
The Corps also spent $10 million a year dredging little used waterways.
Such as the Mississippi River Gulf Outlet, the Red River, known as the J. Bennett Johnston Waterway, in honor of the project's congressional godfather for barge traffic that is less than forecast.
Not only, not only over the five years of President Bush's administration, has Louisiana received far more money for the Corps of Engineers civil projects than any other state.
1.9 billion.
Overall, the Bush administration's funding requests for the key New Orleans flood control projects for the past five years were higher than the Clinton administration's for its past five years.
Lieutenant General Carl Strock, the chief of the Corps, has said that in any event, more money would not have prevented the drowning of the city since its levies were designed to protect against a category three storm, and the levies that failed were already completed projects.
Strzok has also said that the Marsh Restoration Project would not have done much to diminish Katrina's storm surge, which passed east of the coastal wetlands.
They buried the lead of the story.
I'm halfway into the second page of the story.
And the lead of the story is that Bush in his five years spent far more on these projects down there, flood control projects, than Clinton did in his last five years.
We also know that the Corps of Engineers gets more money for Louisiana than any other state.
We now have learned that Mary Landrew cooked the books on a 194 million dollar deepening project that flunked a cost-benefit analysis.
So, Senator, it it seems to me you're gonna have a real hard time making the case that George Bush didn't do enough.
It seems to me, Senator, you're gonna have a real tough time blaming President Bush for this.
It seems to me, Senator, that what you ought to really be worried about is somebody investigating you and your daddy and every other Democrat that has run that state that has willfully accepted all of these dollars and not spent them where they were targeted.
And again, Senator, I'd I'd simply like to ask you, where is the legislation that you sponsored to upgrade the levies from Category 3 to Category 5?
Where is it?
Is Bush supposed to have done that too?
Yeah, everybody's reading all these articles written years ago about the dangers of what could happen, and yeah, they look awfully prophetic.
Well, you could have read them too.
The mayor could have read them.
That that governor down there could have read them, and you all could have demanded that something be done about the levies lifting their capabilities from Cat 3 to Cat 5, but I don't see anybody producing legislation saying, see, then we asked for it and we didn't get it.
I see you getting more than any other state gets on these types of projects.
But I don't know how, Senator, you can go from where you are to blaming President Bush for this and somehow portray yourself as an innocent bystander.
You're a member of the U.S. Senate.
You did nothing.
You know, I'm I'm still I'm still struck on this.
So Mary Landrew says that Mr. Bill of Saturday Night Live even knew the levies would fail.
Well, where was Mary Landrew then?
My gosh, if a cartoon character on Saturday Night Live knows the levies are going to fail.
And by the way, Mr. Bill, as Mr. I I don't even watch Saturday Night Live anymore.
When's that bite from?
Mike?
Mike's got the bite of Mr. Bill saying it.
I don't know if I want to play it.
But you know what the date of it is?
How long ago has it Well, but is Mr. Bill been on the air since Bush ministry they brought him back, or is Mr. Bill one of these ancient characters that's still ancient on Saturday Night Lives.
Anybody know?
It's ancient.
Okay.
Oh, okay, okay.
Well, so the point is if Mr. Bill do this way back in the 90s, then a lot of people, if a cartoon character knew it, then a lot of people knew it during the Clinton years, during all kinds of things.
And yet, here comes Mary Landrow.
I'm telling you folks, this effort to steer this away from New Orleans.
You know what they're going to propose next?
You watch.
The next commission that is appointed to study this will have as the honor of the chairman will be Kathleen Blanco and the assistant chairman will be Ray Nagan.
And people say, well, well, we put Jamie Garellick on the 9-11 commission, and you didn't object.
That's that's about where this is headed, if they get their way.
Here's Tom in Memphis.
Tom, welcome to the EIB network.
Hello.
Hey, Rush.
Hope you're having a good day.
Thank you, sir.
Uh, the reason Mary Lander is running around making so much noise is politically, she is toast.
She just lost her base.
She's run twice and barely won her Senate seat by just thousands of votes each time.
Very close elections.
Yeah, from New Orleans is where we're going to be able to do that's right, Orleans Parish pulled her through.
Now, it's problematic if New Orleans if most of those people are going to move back, A, if the city is even going to be ready to vote next time she's up, a year from November.
Uh uh uh uh No, no, no, the Democrats they'll vote even if they're not there.
Well, that may be, but still, a lot of those people are never going to go back, and if they do have anything approaching uh a normal election, which I agree in Louisiana is problematic, she's lost her base, she's got to run around sounding different and appealing to different people, or she loses next time.
Easy.
That's an interesting point.
Um, and I I'm gonna use your your point to expand it into an overall uh uh discussion here that does not impact the Democratic Party uh well.
Let's stick in New Orleans for right.
You're exactly right.
Uh all these evacuees uh are not gonna go back to New Orleans.
They're all Democrats, they all vote Democrat.
You know they vote Democrat.
And they 99% of them vote Democrat.
And a lot of them are not going to go back.
And one of the reasons they're not going to go back is because after all this aid gets spent, they're gonna they're gonna have nicer places to live than they had when they lived in New Orleans, and they're gonna have a they're gonna have more opportunities for jobs.
New Orleans was a was it was a demonstrable failure for these people.
And that's why I think there needs to be an investigation of liberalism down there, far from creating a utopia.
Look at what they created.
Um these people don't go back.
So it's a significant number of Democrats not voting in Louisiana.
Uh and it could be.
I mean, if if how many people have been evacuated?
What I read, 182,000?
I don't know how many of those uh are gonna go back, but let's let's say 90,000 of them don't.
Uh that's 90,000 votes that are not going to be voted for Democrat candidates in Louisiana.
And and Tom is right, Mary Landrew barely, barely eked out her last two elections, and it took Bill Clinton uh making phone calls down in New Orleans to get these people out to to vote, uh, and it was it was razor thin.
Now, little known to people is that much the same type of thing is happening in the Northeast and the upper Midwest, otherwise known as the Rust Belt.
The number of people, for example, moving to Florida is calculated to be 800 a day.
Despite four hurricanes last year and one hurricane this year, five uh eight hundred people a day moving to Florida.
Many of them are moving to uh uh the Tampa St. Pete area, Jacksonville, uh, along with the panhandle in Florida.
They're moving from places like Long Island and uh other parts of New York State, they're coming from Cleveland, they're coming from places in Detroit and Michigan and so forth.
And the reason is that the taxes, real estate, property tax, income taxes, have gotten so high that people cannot afford to live there and work there.
And they're able to move to Florida with a job that pays pretty much the same, but have twice the house, with no state income tax.
They have more disposable income.
They're able to actually factor sending their kids to college.
If this rate of 800 people a day moving to Florida, and by the way, you know, most of the people in these areas are Democrats.
When you're talking about New York and Michigan and Upper Ohio, Cleveland, you're talking about Democrats.
So if this rate of 800 a day moving to Florida keeps up, and everybody expects it not only keep up but increase, in ten years, Florida will have more electoral votes than New York.
And when the when the Democrats start losing bodies to get to the polls in these in these Northeastern and Rust Belt states, you know, they're the they're they're they're losing Democrats up there.
And they're good, it's it's not so much that they're gonna enough Democrats are leaving New York say that it'll become a Republican state, but they're gonna lose electoral votes.
Their electoral map for winning the presidency is what's going to change.
Florida is clearly a Republican state and getting more so by the day.
And it's it's uh same thing is happening in the South.
The Democrats have written the South off, as you know, except for Louisiana.
They've written it off.
And that's where these people happen to be moving.
Some are moving to North Carolina, some are moving to South Carolina, some are moving to Georgia, some coming all the way down to Florida, but they are leaving, and it's gonna change the electoral map for presidential elections for the Democratic Party.
You know, it used to be you get New York and California and you're pretty much home-free.
Not going to be the case in 10 to 15 years.
And what can the Democrats do to reverse this?
There isn't a whole lot they can do to reverse it.
Because they'd have to change their whole worldview and ideology.
They're not going to cut taxes, they're not going to make it easier for people to move into the state and open businesses.
You get punished for success in these liberal-run places.
But you have states that have no income tax and a property tax base that makes some sense some places, not all, but uh some places, uh, you have a far better lifestyle that you can not not to mention, not to mention the uh the weather aspects and the climate aspects, not to mention not having any snow, not to mention having any of the trials and tribulations of winter.
Yeah, you trade that for hurricane possibilities and so forth, but 800 people a day are making the bet.
Moving to Florida.
So what's happening in Louisiana?
Little microcosm of it.
All those Democrats that are being evacuated from the state, and this will be what the Democrats will ultimately decide was the real Bush conspiracy.
To get all these Democrats out of Louisiana, give them all kinds of state money, turn them into wards of the Republican state, make them so love and appreciate Republicans for helping them out after the Republicans point out that you were living in squalor for year after year after year under Democrat control.
Hurricane came along, yeah, wrecked your life, but look who helped you.
We did.
We wrote the checks, chicken kaching.
It's how government works, folks.
I'm sorry.
It's frustrating, but it's just the way it works.
But in electoral politics, um, you have a chance that these these voters uh may stay Democrat, they're black, they may stay Democrat, but some of them may not.
But regardless, the voting base of Democrats in Louisiana has been has been lessened, has been diluted now, because some of them aren't going to go back.
And this is a trend that not too many people are talking about.
Well, I first heard about this trend in the Northeast, interestingly, was in a very long and worrisome article in one edition of the Sunday New York Times about two months ago.
It was, and they had quotes of families.
They had individual stories of families who had left and why, with comparative numbers on their lifestyles, earning the same amount of money, more job opportunities outside Long Island and Cleveland and so forth.
I'm telling you, you you you hang around where liberals run the show, where liberalism is unchecked, and you do not get utopia.
You just you don't get anything, you get a welfare state.
You get a welfare state on top of a welfare state.
We got the federal welfare state, and you got the one the liberals set up in these states.
She got redundant welfare states that these residents are paying for on both ends.
And there's no thought given to whether the next tax increase can be afforded.
They just levy it.
And if you can't afford it, too bad.
Well, people find it too bad for you, because we're leaving.
And what could the Democrats do to stop it?
Not much because they're not going to change their worldview.
Quick timeout, we'll be back and continue in just a second.
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I read the other day yesterday that uh there are two options with the with the Superdome.
Uh, by the way, but one one more thing about this Mary Landrew business.
Bush did not say nobody anticipated the levies would fail before the hurricane.
This is a key thing that you people must know.
She took the president's quote out of context.
He was talking after the storm had passed and the levees at that point held, the city was dry the second day.
Nobody anticipated then that the levees would break.
That's what he was talking about.
If they had survived the storm, then nobody expected them to break after that.
And that's probably true.
Uh and on the part of a lot of people.
Anyway, about the superdome.
There are two options.
A hundred million dollars to repair it.
And we're not talking about just the holes in the roof.
Have you uh people um heard?
I don't know that it's really been described on television.
Have you read has it been described on TV?
Okay, well, I haven't seen it described on TV, but I've read what happened in there.
And since we know it's a lunch hour out on the left coast, uh approaching the lunch hour in a mountain time, so I'm not gonna get specific.
But I I have uh the the options are a hundred million dollars to repair it.
And I don't mean just the holes in the roof or tear it down and six hundred to eight hundred million to rebuild it.
Now, folks, I uh I have a question.
It's a thing question.
I'm not sure I know the answer.
But when I hear that 25,000 people can essentially ruin a building like the Superdome in four days, I'm beginning to think the building isn't the problem.
Am I insensitive on this?
Am I am I wrong about the Superdome has on any given sporting event day 80,000 people in there, 60 to 80.
I know all those facilities work and there's food and this sort of thing, but uh it I know the facilities totally backed up.
I mean, they lost power in there.
I I understand.
I understand the facilities backed up.
But uh, you know, they didn't get, for example, in the uh so-called luxury suites, and that's you know, I've been these luxury suites, they're boxes with carpeting on the floor.
Called luxury suites, my but anyway, they're called luxury suites.
These things were all broken into the liquor cabinets were all looted and robbed and every they didn't clear all that stuff out of there.
Um I was just I'm I was surprised.
I I I literally was surprised that uh 25,000 people, even without facilities, could could do so much damage that the place has to be torn down.
Anyway, here's Tammy in uh New Baden, Illinois.
Welcome to the EIB network.
Hello.
Hello.
Hi.
Um, my problem is this is uh they said that we're expecting a lot of hurricanes um to be happening over and over because something else has happened.
And all of New Orleans mostly is underwater, under sea level.
So why are we going to spend money to rebuild it again?
Uh pumps were underwater, they had no backup to uh offer for the pumps to keep pumping out the water.
And like you said, the Democrats have held it for 60 years, so it should be a shining city of example.
And if they really cared about their people, I would have thought they would have moved the city years ago.
Well, it's just not that easy to move a city.
I mean, the the the New Orleans, New Orleans is one of these places that time forgot.
In all candor, New Orleans was not a progressive city.
Its charm was that it was it was old.
The French quarter, uh it was old and the life was the big easy.
Everything's slowed down there.
Nobody's in a hurry to do anything.
It's basically a uh a relaxed uh atmosphere with party time at the same time.
But you have to understand this, Tammy.
When New Orleans was first built, it was above sea level.
People say, well, how well who was the idiot that put it as in a building under below sea level?
No, that it wasn't built below sea level.
Uh if you want, I've got a story here in the stack.
I don't have time to get into it now, but I'm gonna keep it.
I'll I'll uh remind me tomorrow, it's open line Friday, but I'll I'll get into it tomorrow.
Uh it it this story makes the case that the people that killed New Orleans are the environmentalists, the greenies, because the Mississippi River flowing flowing in and into the uh into the Gulf of Mexico creates the Mississippi Delta.
Now, if you if you were taught about deltas in school, uh, and I I was, but that's many, many moons ago, little Indian lingo there, NCAA.
And I I don't know if this is still taught, but what happens, uh the levee gets built by the river depositing all the sediment and the sludge, whatever's in it.
And this created wetlands.
Well, the environmentalist got hold of said, you know, we we gotta do something about the river, and and uh so they they they dredged and they they did some things to the levee that uh diverted uh uh I'm not well enough informed here to know specifically what happened, but the result was that the city ended up sinking eight to fifteen feet below sea level.
Yeah, that yeah, that's what the silt wasn't being replaced.
That what would happen is that the the river flows into the gulf and would keep the levees or keep the uh the the delta built up by depositing the silt.
Well, they diverted the river uh for a host of reasons, and and they did it for for uh economic reasons too, not just environmental, but so the the um oh look at that Sandy Burglar fined 50 grand and sentenced to two years of probation, plus some community service.
50 grand, I think was it 500 hours or 100 hours community service.
Sandy Burglar for stealing things from the uh National Archives.
At any rate, so it didn't start out built uh uh below sea level, that's where it ended up.
And the town, despite what people say, the town is not wiped out.
The town has not been destroyed.
Some places the power is back on.
You ought to see the the pictures taken of the New Orleans downtown skyline at night make it look like nothing has happened there.
It's only when the uh sunlight shows it.
So there's no place else to put it, and and New Orleans will be rebuilt.
And at some point, somebody's gonna have to say, okay, while we're at it, let's put these levees up to cat five.
We'll see.
I gotta run here, folks.
Sadly, out of busy broadcast time, back in just a second.
One more thought on the looting, folks, before we uh have to get out of here.
I know the looting has been horrible and people shocked by it, but you haven't seen a looting yet.
If this all this federal money ends up going through state officials in Louisiana, the looting that that crowd is gonna conduct will make these New Orleans gangsters look like a bunch of romper rumors.
Put that in your pipe and smoke it.
Quick uh quick break here.
We'll be back in uh in uh 21 hours and do it all over again on Friday.
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