[SpamCop-Social] Re: Want to get the government off it's ass?

[Bcs1]

"Frog Prince" <devnull at spamcop.net> wrote in message 
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> "indigo" <nobody at spamcop.net> wrote in message
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> | Bcs1 wrote:
> | >  so the base is
> | > NEW O had cat3 protection because of a local gov decision made years
> | > ago along comes a cat5 storm
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> | That's BS, Bill. NO has been begging for levee upgrades for years, and 
> the
> | feds have admitted that they couldn't fund them because of the war in 
> Iraq
> | and the shrub's massive tax cuts.
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> Key point it's the COE that make the final decision.  They freely admitted
> that the CAT3 vs CAT5 determination was based on cost benefit analysis 
> which
> is COE budget vs. safety ... budget won.
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be THAT as it may, there's no way anyone can be expected to believe that had 
the local government wanted it bad enough, something couldn't have been done 
about it. There may be a huge disparity between the "upper" and "lower" 
classes of folks who live there, however with the amount of commerce that 
goes thru that area, and the amount of the business/tax base there that 
something couldn't have been done.
 with that said, I'm not "Ni-eve" (spl) enough to think that there's some 
magical wand that the local government could wave, and the tons of money 
needed for that type endeavor would just "appear", but there is still allot 
that the local folks (government) could have done on their own to rectify 
the safety vs. budget issue. IE build/upgrade it themselves

 in the reply previous to this it was stated that "That's BS, Bill. NO has 
been begging for levee upgrades for years", now am I to understand that 
anytime the 'feds' can't/won't fork over funding for something, we are 
supposed to just give up?, and NOT work on it on our own?
 The way I see it, if anything's BS. that is.


hmmmmm, yeah I said that right

TIA
Bill

GRRR gtg to work  BBL