Stephen Russell wrote: > I think that it is all a need for greed. Take Katrina as an event > where the government "came to the aid of the people" How much money > was thrown around and for how many years will really stupid things > continue to happen. > The govt's renting of those luxury cruise ships comes to mind...what a freakin' waste of $$$$!
> Case in point, we had ice left over from the relief effort that was > destroyed this summer. There were multiple trailers (18 wheeler) all > refrigerated for containing ice. They were emptied, and had bull > doozers push it around while it melted in the 100+ degree heat wave > that we were experiencing. They didn't tell us why the ice was > unusable but the would not allow ANYONE access to it. To have allowed > pools to drop it in their water and bring the temp down, or for some > places to pile it up and let the cool air make a better workplace if > you could deal with the melting water? > To let that ice be handled/given to the public would inevitably lead to lawsuits...I agree that they didn't turn it over on that point. > Anywho. how much $$$ was consumed in keeping it as ice in mobile > transports for almost 2 years? > Agreed....another example of the fleecing of America. I saw a show on TV (perhaps NBC News?) that showed us wasting tons of taxpayer dollars for bullshit causes. _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[EMAIL PROTECTED] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
