[ RadSafe ] Re: Government and money

[Dale Boyce]

Dimiter,

If I remember correctly, the predictions of even psychihistorians proved to 
be flawed due to the failure to take into consideration outside influences.

Dale
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dimiter Popoff" <didi at tgi-sci.com>
To: <jjcohen at prodigy.net>; <radsafe at radlab.nl>
Sent: Sunday, August 14, 2005 2:05 PM
Subject: [ RadSafe ] Re: Government and money


> 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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> -------Original Message-------
>> From: jjcohen at prodigy.net
>> Subject: [ RadSafe ] Government and money
>> Sent: Aug 14 '05 18:21
>>
>>
>>
>>  Maybe we should not complain so much about the needless squandering of 
>> resources on low-dose radiation control. Note the following:
>>
>>  "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.
>>
>>  "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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