Dave Kruger said on 14 October 2009 > permit...fund efforts to prevent...invasive aquatic species in Oregon Dave - Thanks for shedding more light on the subject. It's certainly a problem worth tackling - and I'm sorry that it seems you are being invaded by one of our snails (didn't know we had one with a wandering spirit ;-). I can only hope that a reasonable portion of the $5 finds its way to the 'battlefront', after costs of education, collection, processing, data retention and policing. We were upset last week to hear that in the first 9 months of operation of a new toll road - which had been very controversial (to toll or not to toll) - the collection of the $2 toll had cost an average of $1.29. The electronically-collected tolls did a little better, but the manually collected ones cost well over $2 to collect. This had been predicted accurately by the 'not-to-toll' faction, but ridiculed as preposterous... Who was it who said the aim of government is to create jobs for governmental employees ? Best Regards Paul Hayward, Auckland, New Zealand *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Tue Oct 13 2009 - 07:06:26 PDT
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