bay, okaloosa counties feast...walton has a famine

[sunspotbaby]

Dunno about seawalls, but I could have saved them 49.99 million on sign removal! :angry:

NS. :roll:

 

[30ashopper]

Anybody notice New Orleans got shafted too?

 

[scooterbug44]

The link worked today - basically we are repaving 30-A and adding sidewalks?

How come we couldn't build a bridge w/ it? ;-)

 

[30ashopper]

Anybody notice New Orleans got shafted too?

Their #5 in their top five is "replacement airfield lighting". Um hello. If we're going to blow borrowed cash like this, stop wasting it on photo cells in colorado and spend some fricking money fixing/protecting N.O. from another dissaster.

 

[BeachSiO2]

No need to worry, there is another stimulus bill... err, I mean "job creation" bill in the works. I guess this one is going to be devised to go toward projects that might actually create jobs and not social programs.

From The Hill...

Senate Democrats will take up a new job-creation bill in the wake of the 10.2 percent unemployment rate, Majority Leader Harry Reid told his colleagues Tuesday.
Sen. Ben Cardin (D-Md.) told The Hill that Reid (D-Nev.) made the announcement about a new jobs bill at the Senate Democrats? weekly lunch.

Reid said he was looking at an initiative focused on job creation ?and that our caucus will take it up,? Cardin said.

 

[wrobert]

Their #5 in their top five is "replacement airfield lighting". Um hello. If we're going to blow borrowed cash like this, stop wasting it on photo cells in colorado and spend some fricking money fixing/protecting N.O. from another dissaster.

The story I got is to get the dollars you have to apply. Our people decided that none of our projects were "shovel ready" so no one filled out the paperwork.

Personally, I think this speaks volumes for the attitudes in local government, way too much money for way too long, they are now having to learn how to operate like other governments and actually work for the dollars.

Of course some will sit back and blame it on the post office and our zip codes.

 

[idlewind]

The story I got is to get the dollars you have to apply. Our people decided that none of our projects were "shovel ready" so no one filled out the paperwork.

Personally, I think this speaks volumes for the attitudes in local government, way too much money for way too long, they are now having to learn how to operate like other governments and actually work for the dollars.

Of course some will sit back and blame it on the post office and our zip codes.

Ever think it might be that some of our local officials are opposed to such wasteful government spending and chose not to participate. Isn't it a little hypocritical to oppose Obama and the spending and then grovel for morsels of it? Could this be a plus for our commissioners instead of a minus?
I think Okaloosa officials could learn alot from their Walton counterparts.

 

[30A Skunkape]

Ever think it might be that some of our local officials are opposed to such wasteful government spending and chose not to participate. Isn't it a little hypocritical to oppose Obama and the spending and then grovel for morsels of it? Could this be a plus for our commissioners instead of a minus?
I think Okaloosa officials could learn alot from their Walton counterparts.

I think this is referred to as 'going rogue'.

 

[wrobert]

Ever think it might be that some of our local officials are opposed to such wasteful government spending and chose not to participate. Isn't it a little hypocritical to oppose Obama and the spending and then grovel for morsels of it? Could this be a plus for our commissioners instead of a minus?
I think Okaloosa officials could learn alot from their Walton counterparts.

Personally, all of those grant programs should be abolished. Taxes are taxes and the people of South Dakota should not be funding the four laning of the 331 bridge. But the system we live in works differently. And all of our commissioners have said that funding 331 is a priority. All of participated in the spending of tens of thousands of dollars to go to Washington DC to seek that funding. And when an opportunity arises, we let it pass. Seems a bit hypocritical to me. Since they allowed this to pass, without application, the true statesman would be admitting their failure and writing a check back to the county for all of those vacations that it now appears they took at the expense of taxpayers. But have you even heard a peep out of them about what happened?

 

[idlewind]

Personally, all of those grant programs should be abolished. Taxes are taxes and the people of South Dakota should not be funding the four laning of the 331 bridge. But the system we live in works differently. And all of our commissioners have said that funding 331 is a priority. All of participated in the spending of tens of thousands of dollars to go to Washington DC to seek that funding. And when an opportunity arises, we let it pass. Seems a bit hypocritical to me. Since they allowed this to pass, without application, the true statesman would be admitting their failure and writing a check back to the county for all of those vacations that it now appears they took at the expense of taxpayers. But have you even heard a peep out of them about what happened?

I certainly agree about abolishing federal grant programs. A bridge across the bay is a Florida and Walton County problem, not a South Dakota problem. But not seeking those grants does not seem hypocritical, it seems honorable to me. Maybe those trips opened eyes to the real issues. Let us know how many checks you see.
Just because the system is broke doesn't mean we have to give it our personal push down the path to h***.