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To: Gondring
Also underfunded at $40 million a year: The $14 billion Coast 2050 project that aims to restore the wetlands of the Mississippi Delta.

Math is your friend, put it to some use. In the last 4 years, 160 million $ out of $14 billion comes out to barely a reduction of 1%. Anyone who thinks that 1% is the difference between the destruction of New Orleans and a safe dry city is nuts.

Small wonder the NEA wants to keep us all stupid.

13 posted on 09/01/2005 2:46:29 PM PDT by Lawgvr1955 (Never draw to an inside straight.)
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To: Lawgvr1955
Small wonder the NEA wants to keep us all stupid.

No offense, my FRiend, but as much as I hate the NEA, you should check your reading abilities before throwing stones. It's "underfunded at $40 million a year" not "underfunded by $40 million a year"...in other words, only 1% of the funding that would have been required (costs are far higher now, though, because of the underfunding in the past). (Note, though, that the actual original ANNUAL estimate was $470 million, for 30 years....therefore, it received 3% of the required budget to protect the area.)

My problem is not with the numbers or requirements. It's with the Federal Government being asked to fund this.

23 posted on 09/01/2005 3:12:27 PM PDT by Gondring (I'll give up my right to die when hell freezes over my dead body!)
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To: Lawgvr1955

Looks like they took pieces of Sid the Snakes editorial overseas.

Can't even think for themselves.


27 posted on 09/01/2005 3:21:27 PM PDT by MNlurker
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To: Lawgvr1955

"Math is your friend, put it to some use."

A well crafted line.

As for your NEA slam, having developed and taught teacher continuing education programs for the fourth largest public scruel system in America, all I can say is that you approach an English level of understatement.


GG


43 posted on 09/01/2005 8:41:36 PM PDT by GladesGuru ("In a society predicated upon liberty, it is essential to examine principles)
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