Reallocated where?

I didn’t really want to know things like this — primarily because they do nothing but anger me — but Clean Cut Kid‘s post had to bring it home:

For the first time in 37 years, federal budget cuts have all but stopped major work on the New Orleans area’s east bank hurricane levees, a complex network of concrete walls, metal gates and giant earthen berms that won’t be finished for at least another decade.

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“It appears that the money has been moved in the president’s budget to handle homeland security and the war in Iraq, and I suppose that’s the price we pay,”

The rest of the post is here.

*sigh*