John Goodman for safe levees in the USA

http://www.levees.org
John Goodman, actor and New Orleans resident, donates his time to explain why people everywhere should be concerned about levees and flood protection.

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[VincenzoP81]

People care so little about New Orleans and Louisiana that we can't even have a film on Youtube featuring a national celebrity without the conversation becoming about Iraq. Can't we talk about the people in our own country? Truly, we have been forgotten.

[audiofile7]

I visited New Orleans for the first time last summer. I will never forget it. Despite the devastation, the city is very much alive. It is undeniably unique and I can't wait to go back.

[4nola27]

We MUST have an 8 /29 INVESTIGATION to determine what went wrong and the solution to prevent this from happening again. The worst ENGINEERING disaster in the history of the USA. Bring in engineers from The Netherlands who are already successful at Flood Prevention and engineering. People of NOLA cannot TRUST any local contractors, engineers, US Army Corps of Engineers, nor the USACE.

These are criminal actions, stop the assault on the people of New Orleans

[rardances]

Two weeks before Katrina, I visited NOLA. As we drove around, and already some areas were closed, I asked my host: "Is there water around here." At that time I sensed water all around us. My host responded that NOLA was below sea level. More amazing to me, than my sense of foreboding, was the host's non-chalant response. I wondered why NOLA's own residents choose to not do something to help their wonderful city. Katrina hit. I felt for NOLA in a pround way.

[80schile]

Actually the CBD is pretty bad too. It looks like a third of the high rises are empty. However, some I think were empty before the storm.

[TheNilvarg]

Attention New Orleans, stop worrying about the federal government's response, and start worrying about your incompetent, corrupt Mayor, Raycist Nagin, who is to blame for most complications that surrounded Katrina.

[TheNilvarg]

We don't threaten their freedom. We ensure their freedom by dethroning a genocidal dictator, instilling them with democracy, and allowing them to decide their future by giving them the right to vote.

Strawman arguments do not win.

[urapussyuarewhatueat]

klk

[judecancer]

Love ya John. Been missin' you around ole Met,, love you videos, especially the pet preparedness one. You're looking svelte,

[lablvr55]

Isn't it apparent now that our own government are the terrorists? This government rebuilt Indonesia after the tsunami, but nola is still abandoned except for the CBD and the French Quarter which was not badly impacted.

America, do you CARE??? Remember, there are levees in all 50 states,bridges too, it will be you next.

[4nola27]

All 50 states have levees in disrepair and those same levees have not been maintained in the last 40 years. Sign petitions, call your congressional representatives now. California is at great risk due to the levees in Sacramento. If those break, no one in Ca will have any water, no tap water, no water at all. Think about it, it will affect us all.

[4nola27]

Thank you, Nolabig1, you are correct"everyone needs to see this" how do we accomplish that?

I willing to work on that project.