Some say that the plans for the Gulf Coast after Hurricane Katrina resembles the new deal set forth by FDR. At a quick glance it maybe hard to disagree. The clean up efforts, rebuilding and defense system infrastructure, which must be put in place to prevent such a future repeated disaster has been estimated that it will cost as much as $155 Billion dollars and now some news agencies are talking in the neighborhood of 200 Billion Dollars.

What do you think of the new deal? Many leaders who study history say they would have done it different. But how would you do it different? My theories are it is okay to invest in capital expenditures of my civilization, providing they hit my theories of ROI in the "Flows of Civilization." It would not be so much a new deal, but rather a "new concept for the future" or a "1000 year plan" but you cannot call it the