I've an idea.....As soon as any one of you can get 99 other people on this board to agree with your plan for fish restoration I will reconsider my conservative stance politically. I think that we all need to realize that EVERY single penny these jokers spend (OF OUR MONEY!!!!!!!) must be negotiated with 99 other people with pet projects and constituents, not to mention the 435 jokers in the other body and the occupant of the white house. If these dams are/were privately owned (I don't know) then why are you all sucking on the federal [Bleeeeep!] to get them removed. Why not talk to the owners. I am admittedly ignorant on this subject but logic seems to dictate. Please do me the favor of priortizing almost 2 trillion dollars of federal spending in a way that will get 535 other elected whores to agree with you (is there still over $100 million attached to your pet project?????).

Perhaps it is the election season blues but I for one am getting tired of everyone bellying up to the "Treasury Bar" all asking for their own magic potable at the expense of others. Between prescription drugs, preschool, dams and all the rest I'm not sure I'm working for my own family any more. If the gov't built it then you all have a legit beef, if not I think we're SOL. If removing it was the intended plan, why did Babbitt make a single watt of power with it????????? If it ain't movin...it either IS dead or WILL be. Thanks for the vent......................more later
Regards,
Lance

[This message has been edited by wit45cal (edited 09-15-2000).]