It's sad to hear that it is once again raining there! Will these peoples nightmares ever end!? I just can't believe that this has gone on as long as it has! I hope for their sakes that the levees hold and the rain subsides soon!

Cindy...Ga.

We're lucky the levees did not give out this time. But who is responsible for maintaining the levees in the first place? We stopped maintaining the levees so that we could fight a useless war in Iraq and so that we could give tax breaks for the rich. In addition, the floods are the latest by-product of global warming. We need to develop fuels with fewer carbon emissions.

However insisting on maintaining the infrastructure, cleaning up toxic waste sites, or preserving the environment makes you a tax-and-spend liberal. Because we didn't want to tax and spend, the economy faces an enormous bill because of the flood. And the bill that we're paying now is much higher than the bill we would have paid with well-regulated government spending on levees and prudent public investments in non-polluting energy sources (like kelp, algae, or even bacteria.)

The floods prove once again the need fo change we can believe in. Proactive tax-and-spend liberals actually save the country money, far more than reactive borrow-and-squander conservatives. Liberals are the new fiscal conservatives.

When does it ever stop for these poor people? Just think as well as their homes being in danger of inundation their work places are too Financially this flooding is going to be a huge disaster. I hope from all this maybe we learn not to build near floodplains and depend on levees to keep the water out

Annie Kate
Birmingham AL