[pct-l] Pct-L Digest, Vol 73, Issue 32

[Diarmaid Harmon]

And a bridge over the Colombia river is 4.6 billion About the same as an aircraft carrier… I don’t think you can throw the entire problem at the corporations. The government wants their cut too. 
Throw them all out and start over.

Diarmaid Harmon
irishharmon at comcast.net

"Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, Guinness in one hand, steak in the other, yell 'Holy Sh**, What a Ride!"





On Jan 28, 2014, at 7:45 PM, Brick Robbins <brick at brickrobbins.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 7:01 PM, Terry <tsparks56 at aol.com> wrote:
>> Putting the unemployed back to work maintaining our trails does make sense,  that is, until you think back to just a couple of months ago, when EVERY National Forest in the Country was shut down by our elected leaders in Congress.
>> To bad we don't have another FDR today.
> 
> There is a bigger profit margin in defense contracting than trail
> maintenance, and the money goes into wealthier and more politically
> influential pockets than people swinging Pulaskis and Macleods or
> hiking the trails.
> 
> One Littoral Combat ship has a price tag of $600 Million so that is a
> lot of money in  of a small number of corporate pockets, and since
> corporations now have unlimited 1st amendment rights to contribute to
> politicians, their lobbyists have lots of money from the bloated
> contracts to buy the politicians.
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Littoral_combat_ship
> 
> Wilderness areas don't have any lobbyists.
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