[Onelifetogive]

In another state, LA the mayor of New Orleans rejected an offer by a TX company to pay the city $5 million for the right to come in and crush all the destroyed and abandoned cars after the hurricane and remove them. This company would then sell the crushed cars for scrap at a profit. The offered contract promised that the streets would be clear in 5 weeks. Instead, Mayor Nagin decided to pay $22 million to have another company do the same thing with no promised finish date. To the best of my knowledge the streets are still littered with abandoned cars.

OLTGs Rule of Life #34 - When someone goes out of his way to look like an idiot, the truth is usually MUCH worse,

[Pikachu_Dad]

Louisiana pays folks to hunt Nutria and pays them a $3(?) bounty for each tail that is brought in.

There are probably a lot of tail-less Nutria out there breeding away.

[magslinger]

OLTGs Rule of Life #34 - When someone goes out of his way to look like an idiot, the truth is usually MUCH worse,

LOL, but only because it's true, doubly so in Noggin's case.

If you actually have those rules written out, they'd look kewl on your FReeppage

[logic101.net]

I believe that you have your figures reversed; either that or Rush messed up. From the story Rush told the TX company offered the $22 mil with a 5 week finish date; but the mayor decided he'd rather PAY $5 mil to a local company. Sounds like he was getting a kick back to me.

Yet, when my Congressman questioned the effectiveness of just throwing money at the problem he was pilloried!

Mark A Sity