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Deborah Durkee br> Marietta, Georgia /p>

As a nation with looming long-term financial obligations to deal with, we cannot afford to "sink" a nation's treasure into an unviable location in this country that not only is mostly below sea level already but is still sinking in the Delta mud. One breach is all it will take to flood the entire below sea level area again and cost hundreds of billions to rebuild again. The cost to fortify into smaller compartments for containment to limit the impact of a single breach is enormous compared to what the existing levee system cost and that wasn't cheap.

p>I understand the romantic appeal of New Orleans, but the economic reality is that Nature is going to win eventually. We can, at great cost, prolong the agony but the ground on which much of New Orleans sits today has already voted to surrender. In the scheme of things, it is just one city and there are more pressing needs in the next couple of decades in my humble opinion. br> -- Thom Bateman br> Newport News, Virginia /p> p> HANDS OFF MY FORK br> Re: Michael Fumento's Fat Chance : /p>

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