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Expanding federal power: the real lessons of Hurricane Katrina: new government programs mean expanded federal powers and increased dependence on government.(KATRINA)(Cover Story)
Hurricane Katrina was in many ways a disaster of nearly unprecedented proportions for the United States. To be sure, we have suffered disasters before. San Francisco was heavily damaged by an earthquake and a fire in 1906. Chicago succumbed to a raging fire set off, according to urban legend of the time, by the unfortunate Mrs. O'Leary's cow. Galveston was destroyed by a hurricane in 1900. In terms of death toll, however, Katrina remains the worst natural disaster in American history.
Katrina, though, was special, if that word may be used to describe the horrendous damage wrought by the storm. It destroyed not only life and limb, but also damaged and shuttered ...
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Source: HighBeam Research, Expanding federal power: the real lessons of Hurricane Katrina: new...