[ RadSafe ] Re: Government and money

[Dimiter Popoff]

Nice example about the bridge, I bet 10:1 this was about some particular company
getting the contract. I guess the system is getting (has gone?) out of control all
over the place. I had a local minister here (the local equivalent of the US DOE secretary)
personally intervene against me (even wrote himself as one of a 3 member comission) on
a decision for equipment purchase worth apr. US $60 k... Obviously he did just a favour
to some of my enemies, I have no idea what he got out of this.
Nowadays the goods are produced practically automatically and there is little if anything
going on other than elbowing to preserve an inherited position. It will take at
least one generation change before things perhaps begin to change (if ever,
I am not a psychohistorian so I really cannot predict... :-) .

Dimiter

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> From: jjcohen at prodigy.net
> Subject: [ RadSafe ] Government and money
> Sent: Aug 14 '05 18:21
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>      Maybe we should not complain so much about the needless squandering of resources on low-dose radiation control. Note the following:
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>  "The highway bill just passed by our Republican Congress (with the president's blessing), at $286.4 BILLION is the most expensive public works legislation ever passed," he writes.
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>  "The National Taxpayers Union put it best when describing one of the more offensive projects in the bill: $220 million for a 5.9-mile bridge connecting Gravina Island (population 50) to the Alaskan mainland. The cost of the bridge alone would be enough to buy every island resident his own personal Lear jet.'
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