[Flatus I. Maximus]

The Civil War ushered in the era of armored warships. In Savannah, a Ladies Gunboat Association raised $115,000 to build such a ship to protect the city. The 120-foot-long CSS Georgia had armor forged from railroad iron, but its engines proved too weak to propel the ship's 1,200-ton frame against river currents. The ship was anchored on the riverside at Fort Jackson as a floating gun battery.

Ultimately the Georgia was scuttled by its own crew without having ever fired a shot in combat.

So they want to spend $14 million of taxpayer money to raise the remaining pieces of a 150-year-old complete failure and boondoggle that was sunk by its own crew and has mostly rusted away.

Is it just me, or is this nuts?

[BenLurkin]

It is NUTS.

[longtermmemmory]

think of this as $14 million in crony contracts.