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/p> p> ENVIRONMENTALISM'S CATCH-22 br> Re: R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr.'s Accountable Al : /p>

Looking beyond the obvious how about a cabal at work here? Army Corps of Engineers identifies a need for new levees, bigger and better. A proposal is floated to Congress. The ruling Democrats wring their hands, "Oh woe, clearly we need this but no space for pork to fund the constituents back home." They need cover. Riding to the scene is rumblings from EnviroWhacko LLC.

A conference is held by the politicians: "Hey we float the bill for the levees through Appropriations. Frank, be sure to add an environmental study rider. I'll make sure EnviroWhacko knows about it." The appropriations are slated and placed in the budget. EnviroWhacko gets its grant, and summarily proceeds to pound ACE with statutory mumbo-jumbo. Eventually the project dies under the weight of sheer legal inertia.

So in the end, the levees aren't built, EnviroWhacko spends the balance of the grant on a junket to an environmentally sensitive resort traveling by private fuel guzzling jet, and the politicos have their cake and eat it too. To paraphrase -- "I funded the levees, right before my enviro stooges unfunded it. But my hands are clean, see!"

p>And so it goes. How much longer before "We the People..." stop this madness? br> -- John McGinnis br> Arlington, Texas /p>

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