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The Bush administration refuses to pay for all of them.......
On Apr 25, 6:23�am, wrote:
First, the Corps of Engineers is choked for lack of funding, now..... http://www.starnewsonline.com/apps/p...=/20070423/EDI... .... what's next..... -- Grady-White Gulfstream, out of Oak Island, NC. Homepagehttp://pamandgene.idleplay.net/* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Rec.boats at Lee Yeaton's Bayguidehttp://www.thebayguide.com/rec.boats* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * -----------------www.Newsgroup-Binaries.com- *Completion*Retention*Speed* Access your favorite newsgroups from home or on the road ----------------- It's a matter of priorities. The Administration is spending so much money on the things that are personally important to certain people and corporations in high places that it has to be done outside the Federal Budget. For "reasons of security" we won't even know exactly how much we've spent or how many decades it will take to pay it back until change of watch in 2009- if then. The funny aspect of this has to be that if a buch of guys in turbans ran up and down the coast in a RIB to destroy our weather buoys and nav aids or were dropping bombs to silt up our navigation channels, we'd consider that an act of "terror" and spend hundreds of billions of dollars tearing up some randomly selected country somewhere in response. If our own neglect (or the reprioritization of domestic funds for pointless overseas sabre rattling) allows our navigation and weather systems to fall into disrepair, how different is the result than if a bunch of "radical Islamists" set out to do it deliberately? The lack of dredging is a nationwide problem, by the way. Waterways that have been routinely dredged on a regular schedule are beginning to silt up in many areas, and the Corp of Engineers typically claims that it has no idea if or when funds will be allocated to maintain navigable conditions. You guys back east get some serious weather. Wonder how long it will be before people die in one of your hurricances, due specifically to lack of information that could have been provided by one of the out of service weather buoys? |
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The Bush administration refuses to pay for all of them.......
"Chuck Gould" wrote in message oups.com... You guys back east get some serious weather. Wonder how long it will be before people die in one of your hurricances, due specifically to lack of information that could have been provided by one of the out of service weather buoys? ----------------------------------------------------- You have to consider that satellites can now provide much, if not all of the data obtained with moored weather buoys, including temperature and sea state. They can't help with the dredging though. Eisboch |
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