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Unintended consequences of the Stimulus package
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Stimulus dollars here are being spent to repave roads that don't really need it. They could be adding lanes or paving over all the dirt roads in the county but that would make too much sense.
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Ken, we are seeing much the same thing up here, but it's for a sound reason, unfortunately.
The 'goobermint' announced the spending spree, errr, I mean 'stimulus package', with a rather stringent set of qualifications attached. Amongst the 'conditions' is a quiet killer, the project must be at the 'greenlight' stage to qualify for funding. In other words, it must be ready to commence "immediately". If it requires anything in the way of clearance, i.e. environmental study, engineering study, public approval, it doesn't qualify for funding.
On top of this there is a dollar amount cap for the entire scheme. When they have received & approved applications for a total amount equal to what they have committed to spend, the program is closed, period.
The end result is everybody is racing to get projects approved so they can secure 'their share' of the windfall before it's gone.
There's no yardstick by which anything is measured as to it's worth except $$$$, no having to justify anything.
Sad but true.
Best of luck.
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It was clear to me that their policy was to demean anyone who dared to disagree with the editors.So now I don't bother, but do try to cost them subscribers whenever the opportunity arises.
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Ken, based on experience, you would get much farther making a note of the major advertisers in that newspaper and writing to them briefly explaining the situation, and enclosing a copy of both your original letter, and the one they published.
Then go on to say that because of this intolerable situation you will no longer read that newspaper and that you wished to inform them that their advertising dollars spent on that newspaper were being wasted as far as your consumer spending was concerned. Be sure to CC the newspaper editor & publisher also with each letter.
I did this when a local up here did something similar to me over a controversial golf course being proposed.
Very shortly thereafter I had an apology from the newspaper, and my original, unedited letter published right next to it.
Best of luck.
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