{"id":664,"date":"2005-09-04T09:17:00","date_gmt":"2005-09-04T16:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dianeduane.com\/outofambit\/?p=664"},"modified":"2005-09-04T09:17:00","modified_gmt":"2005-09-04T16:17:00","slug":"oh-indeed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dianeduane.com\/outofambit\/2005\/09\/04\/oh-indeed\/","title":{"rendered":"Oh, indeed&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have a feeling this story is going to likely to start attracting more attention in the days to come&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.editorandpublisher.com\/eandp\/news\/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1001051313\">In early 2004, as the cost of the conflict in Iraq soared, President Bush proposed spending less than 20 percent of what the [US Army] Corps [of Engineers] said was needed for Lake Pontchartrain,<\/a> according to a Feb. 16, 2004, article, in New Orleans CityBusiness.<\/p>\n<p>On June 8, 2004, Walter Maestri, emergency management chief for Jefferson Parish, Louisiana, told the Times-Picayune: &#8220;It appears that the money has been moved in the president&#8217;s budget to handle homeland security and the war in Iraq, and I suppose that&#8217;s the price we pay. 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