Subj : Re: not kosher To : alt.tv.farscape From : Nick Date : Fri Sep 09 2005 02:07:21 From Newsgroup: alt.tv.farscape Jim Larson wrote: > Nick wrote: > >> John Iwaniszek wrote: >> >>> Nick wrote in >>> news:Xns96CBB3E81244Endtcm@ 68.1.17.6: >>> >>>> Tyler Trafford wrote: >>>> >>>>> http://www.startribune.com/stories/125/5602732.html >>>>> >>>> >>>> "Louisiana has received far more money for Corps civil works >>>> projects than any other state, about $1.9 billion; California >>>> was a distant second with less than $1.4 billion, even though >>>> its population is more than seven times larger." >>>> >>>> Since when does population have to do with Corps of Engineers >>>> projects? >>>> >>> >>> (it's a tax redistribution thing. Some people (not me) would >>> argue that a state with fewer people should get proportionally >>> less tax money than a state with more people on the simple >>> grounds of fairness.) >>> >> >> (For social programs and stuff like that I could understand their >> point whether I agreed with it or not. For flood control type >> stuff it doesn't really make sense.) >> > > ((Sure it does. It stands to reason that there are fewer natural > disaster where there are fewer people, what with nature hating > mankind as she does.)) > > (((I fear that when the 9.0 hits either us or S.F.[1], the result > is going to make Katrina look mild by comparison.))) > ((((It is your own fault for living there.)))) (((((You should know better.))))) .