The Army Corps spent $1.5 billion repairing the Herbert Hoover Dike. Yet, nearly as soon as the repairs were complete, discharges to the St. Lucie and Caloosahatchee started again.
Now, the Army Corps can’t explain what benefit Florida’s taxpayers got for the $1.5 billion they spent—saying that the repairs will have literally zero impact on the quantity of discharges from Lake Okeechobee.
Let’s talk about it:
If you’re as outraged by this blatant abuse of tax dollars as I am, sign our petition here to stop the discharges:
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If you pick a fight, you better be prepared to win it. That’s a lesson I learned fighting in Afghanistan for the U.S. military.
On October 7th, Hamas picked a fight with Israel that they couldn’t win. Now, Israel is rightfully on a mission to destroy Hamas, and because Hamas knows they can’t win on the battlefield, they’ve turned to a new ally to help them: Democrats in the United States.
Last January, the Army Corps triumphantly announced the completion of an 18-year project to repair the Herbert Hoover Dike around Lake Okeechobee at a total cost to taxpayers of $1.5 billion.
Over the nearly two-decade lifespan of the project, each time the Army Corps came asking for more taxpayer funding, the project was heralded as a necessity that would increase the capacity of Lake Okeechobee by more than a foot—reducing the need for harmful discharges to the coastal estuaries, making communities around the lake safer from flood risk and decreasing the risk of water shortage.
Exactly one year ago today, Joe Biden’s incompetence handed Afghanistan back to the Taliban – abandoning the mission where I lost two legs and part of my hand serving our country.
Joe Biden left Americans behind enemy lines, resulting in the death of U.S.
I left two legs in the deserts of Afghanistan, but what Joe Biden left there one year ago this month was far worse.
In his disastrous withdrawal – which his Administration spent almost zero time planning because they were apparently too busy teaching soldiers Critical Race Theory – it was the dead bodies of our allies that were left behind.
When I was serving in Afghanistan, I saw what true evil looks like. I lost two legs and a finger when a Taliban bomb blew up beneath me. I also held my fellow soldiers in my arms as the last breath of life left their bodies.
As a father, on the other hand, I have seen the beauty of innocence and experienced the indisputable value of human life.
