levee

"If levees breach, almost all of the city would flood.

Omg, i knew this when i was 5. should just levee now, never use the inter webs again or get an iPad, tampon boy.

It won't come as a breached levee or a tsunami, it will be gradual over years.

If we don't build a levee, we're all going to lose a lot more - in total - than the cost of building the levee.

I recall seeing a nuclear plant that had a levee wall, that was pretty impressive.

I remember dad taking me down to the airport to sit on the river levee and watch the it arrive when they ferried it to KC.

Come the second month, I'm thinking "Well, I want the levee built, but the value my portion of the funds adds to the levee really isn't worth as much to me as the funds themselves..." If the choice is "Everyone pays or no one pays" I clearly prefer "everyone pays".

Several years ago I lived small rural community and the school district passed a heavy levee on homes to pay for a new football field and a far larger than needed grandstand/bleachers and field lighting.

When the levee broke, instead of acknowledging errors and working to address them as a community, Europe’s elites — its politicians and civil servants, its bankers and financiers — deflected the blame in the worst possible way.

So, for instance, if you propose "We should replace today's join-stock companies with joint-stock cooperatives, and institute commons trusts, empowered to levee taxes on economic rents, for management of public resources", you're likely to get a pretty broad buy-in, from almost everyone except the most hardcore, deontological minarcho-capitalists and revolutionary socialists.