More hindsight
Here's a Corps of Engineers Five Year program for 2006 to 2010.
Go through it and pick out all the life-threatening situations that need urgent funding, and separate them out from the pork-filled boondoggles.
I'll wait.
In the past ten years, did you give one single thought to New Orleans and its levees? Other than when hurricanes were approaching? You hear a lot about fatal floods there. How about the East Texas coast, or critical flood zones along Florida, the Carolinas, and other places? Are you aware of COE projects underway there that may or may not save lives? Why not?