1.0 link 49924 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/harry-shearer/how-to-torture-new-orlean_b_49924.html One of the persistent myths of the post-Katrina story is the "the federal government sent all this money to New Orleans". Well, yes and, really no. Yes, the feds sent trailers--the big ones still sitting in Hope, Arkansas, the little ones the subject of debate about the level of formaldehyde fumes inside--and the feds, in the form of the Army Corps of Engineers (who caused the disaster in the first place), formed a nice pyramid of subcontractors so...

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