If we're serious about cutting spending why are we spending millions dredging the Oregon Inlet?

[taterguy]

Seriously, why isn't that "on the table?"

Do the people of Wanchese have that much pull?

[vi5]

1. There's a simple answer....

BECAUSE WE'RE NOT SERIOUS ABOUT CUTTING SPENDING!!!

It's that simple. This is a dog and pony show and "spending" is short hand for "gutting and cutting things that poor people and (at least in theory) Democrats care about.

[taterguy]

2. I guess there aren't many poor people in Rodanthe

[Indydem]

3. Is $10 million that much to pay to keep an important waterway open?

"According to a 2006 study by Dare County, the boating and fishing industries generate more than $682 million a year in revenues and support close to 10,000 jobs."

Progressives don't let infrastructure points fill with sand and kill jobs. Only repukes do that.

[former9thward]

12. This is corporate welfare

From your own figures: "the boating and fishing industries generate more than $682 million a year in revenues". Are you saying that out of $682 million they can't spend $10 million of that to keep themselves going? This is greed and nothing more.

[GKirk]

4. Do you feel that the dredging

is a bad idea?

[taterguy]

7. Yes

[GKirk]

14. So your oringinal post has no concern about the budget

but just your opposition to the dredging.

[taterguy]

15. I'm opposed to dredging because it isn't cost effective

:eyes:

[hack89]

5. Are 10,000 jobs reason enough?

An extended closure of Oregon Inlet could seriously affect the Outer Banks’ fishing and boating industries, estimated in a 2006 Dare County report to annually produce more than $682 million and support 9,851 jobs. The inlet is the only route to the Atlantic Ocean between Hampton Roads and Hatteras Inlet.

http://www.dredgingtoday.com/2011/03/14/usa-coast-guard-to-close-oregon-inlet/

[taterguy]

8. If it's an estimate, how did they come up with the number 9,851?

Seriously, what an odd number.

[hack89]

9. Do you question that many jobs are impacted by closing the inlet? nt

[taterguy]

10. Yes

[hack89]

11. Based on what?

do you disagree that the charter fishing industry is a huge money maker in that region?

[taterguy]

13. I question it because I haven't seen anything to give me reason not to question it

A link from Dredgingtoday isn't exactly objective.

Charter fishermen could use Hatteras Inlet just as easily as Oregon Inlet.

[HysteryDiagnosis]

6. I crack up when I see a convoy of tractors, bushhogs, trucks and a myriad

of workers waging war on grass in the median of not so travelled roads that is perhaps 8 inches in height. It's a war on chlorophyll, the same chlorophyll that helps remove Co2 from the air, the same machines that are belching it out are taking down the grasses that help remove it. We are smart, are we not? Not to mention the cost.

[mmonk]

16. No, developers do.