Posted on 01/30/2009 7:03:21 PM PST by incredulous joe
Any Mathmaniacs out there looking for a good time on a Friday night?
I suspect that you might have to have better than average skill to do this, but math is math. It's free from opinion and sometimes the truths that are revealed are more powerful than punditry.
I floated this question a couple of days ago, but it was during a slow traffic hour and to a separate thread. It was also before this particular item was yanked from the Stimulus Shakedown.
Anyway, I was curious if anyone might have the math skill to breakdown the cost of resodding the National Mall? I will provide the necessary input in successive posts and am looking for a ballpark figure for costs of this item. Break it out however you like; dollar per square foot, by the acre, whatever works for you.
Also, if you know anything about landscaping ~ I don't ~ if you have any comment about such a project. It seems like we all must be rolling in cash that congress can even consider such nonsense.
I know that the Mall is very large, but $200 million to resod?? China can probably put a man on the moon for half that.
I wonder if they could get him back down though??
I venture to guess that I could personally get the bid on this item down to an absolute fraction of this cost with a couple pick-up trucks and a few dozen illegals.
Ain't that how we do it anymore?
So maybe not all the funds are intended for grass.
It still seems like you should be able to do both for less than $200 million.
Kill what is left of the current grass, disk and harrow, reseed with Buffalo grass. After a month flood to 1/2 inch. Overseed as necessary. It would never get longer than 6 " and DC gets enough rain and is humid enough that you'd never have to water it. Late fall it would go dormant until spring so it wouldn't be green but it would have stood up to the lefty traffic.
My post is definitely trying to play the part of “agent provocateur”. I’m not necessarily trying to do an “apples to apples” cost analysis.
Regardless, I am certain that this item is still an obscene abuse of our tax dollars by a government that could potentially destroy our children’s future.
Our federal employees need to do what you and I do when things get a little tight; trim down the spending and do a little more with a little less. It’s common sense.
I don't really believe the numbers. I think the Democrats are stuffing the cash into their own pet projects to be worked on by their own GSA pets.
I saw a news bit on Drudge that the pubbies in the Senate might put a stop to the bill or that they were trying? I'm very jaded and not sure how this may be. I wonder if any of the Dems are coming over to the “stop porcullus” side. I don't know why, maybe they might NOT be inclined to follow Harry Reid over the anti-incumbant cliff in 2010.
Run that by me again.
I think I’m the one who started with the “double negatives”; do you think Harry’s seat is safe or that he might be “daschled”??
Throwing that creep out of office is something that I would like to contribute, too!
Harry’s seat is very safe at this time.
Hope that changes ~ I’ve been told by folks on the ground in NV that Harry was ripe for picking.
While it’s nice to have inside info, I suspect that (like me) locals may have a healthy dose of wishful thinking.
I’d love to be rid of that loser!
The Paulbots ripped the party apart and no one has really stepped up to the plate to try and fix it. There are NO viable candidates to run against Harry currently. The Lt Governor who was the chosen one is under indictment on some real BS charges from when he was Controller - clearly a Reid move to stop him from running. No newspaper or tv station will touch any Harry is dirty stories. The scandal with his land deal was delivered still born.
Harry has also raised a great deal of money already putting anyone at a disadvantage from the get go.
On the heels of your astute observations: Nevada sounds a little like Chicagoland. Apparently, the other folks I’ve exchanged notes with in NV are very optimistic.
Things can still change between now and 2010. I hope they do.
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