>>- double the strength of levees in N.O.
>>- get college tuitions back to 1999 levels
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>While I agree that all the things you suggest would be a better application of the money than where it actually went, I find it very interesting that one of the choices was never "Return it to the people you taxed it from to begin with and let them decide how they want to spend their own money" <bg>

And when was the last time this actually happened? :)

Besides, they'd squander it right away.