Five years after Hurricane Katrina.

Five years after Hurricane Katrina. Another reminder that big government will take on important tasks and then overspend and underdeliver.

"The hurricane protection failures in New Orleans prompted a lawsuit against the US Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) the builders of the levee system as mandated in the Flood Control Act of 1965. Responsibility for the failures and flooding was laid squarely on the Army Corps in January 2008, but the federal agency could not be held financially liable due to sovereign immunity in the Flood Control Act of 1928." from Wikipedia - But alas the Federal Government became very much financially responsible for the damage - just not via lawsuits.

In these cases, politicians will then tell us that we need to try a little harder, spend a little more to get the job done properly.

Rarely is their a discussion about getting the government out of things they are poor at (most things) and leaving these activities to the private sector.