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Well, it is a problem. It all depends on whether or not you have greedy people running the restoration. You will have those that will just be milking the system for cash and do nothing at all. If you have people who care, you can get the job done.
Look at New Orleans, and all the corruption with the money that went on there.
Southern Florida (specifically the Everglades) has been deemed one of only three areas of biological importance in the world. The ecosystem and environment of the Everglades is one of the most unique in the world, however mankind has began the deterioration of it. This process affects basically the entire central and southern parts of Florida in terms of the environment and water management.
The government has stepped in, especially Obama, to give money to what is known as the largest environmental restoration project in the world. Not to mention the most expensive mistake, estimated costs in total after the years and years of work is around $7.8 billion dollars.
What is more valuable to you?
Human life.
Swampland.
Since I do not choose to live in Florida, I will not vote in this little "poll" . . .
I will be looking back here in the next few days just to see what all of you choose.
One minute you're talking about evil businesses and evil profits and a undefined, vague, need for government to do something broad and supposedly in the public interest and the other you're talking about evil corrupt governments skimming money out of the system instead of doing their appointed jobs. These two things are very interrelated but never seem to interact in your world at all.
I expect I am not the only one having trouble following what on earth that would mean as an ideological standpoint.
The corporations are corrupt and the politicians are corrupt. If we can get the corrupt politicians to get rid of the corrupt businesses, it would do good for society.
Much of the reason there are "corrupt" businesses is because there are corrupt politicians.
My vote is on human life + swampland.
"When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators."
Seems to me that the system cycles. The problem surfaces first when governments proceed to try to dictate to others how to do things. There are problems of informational symmetry that can allow corruption to exist in the marketplace. But it's really when governments allow corruption to exist that it flourishes. That happens when governments seek to define what corruption is and to control it rigidly. Politicians then seek to ignore it in favor of the bribery and corruption of government itself. The secret of corruption is ultimately the abuse of power, either by a corporation within a marketplace, or a government official within the structures of laws.
The former is far easier to manage than the latter because the former does not have the powers to impact our other liberties and to restrict our ability to speak out, to protest, or to otherwise express a disdain for the business practices of a corporation (such as by taking our business to a competitor). At least not without a government that shows itself willing to be bought and to allow that corporation an extralegal authority, such as by legitimizing and enforcing its monopoly powers through regulations.
Who corrupts who first though? Do the corrupt politicians go after the corporations or do the corporations go after the politicians?
You want Humans to live in a swamp?
Human life is integrated with this whole restoration project don't you get it? The fact of the matter is, this land and ecosystem just happens to be one of the most, if not the most important in the world.
The water management in South Florida needs to be fixed. Hundreds of species and plants are going and have gone extinct. Also, there will be a lack of water for humans to drink in Florida if the freshwater and saltwater problems are not fixed.
Not to mention all of the flood, drought, and storm control that needs to be taken into consideration to protect the people.
I agree with you Sal, people don't see that the water supply is all messed up as a result of human interacting with the Everglades. More than half of it was depleted because humans drained the land for agriculture.
I say we knock it all down and build a NASCAR track right on it.
That is correct. No one say any value in swampland until the 1970s, the government paid people just to drain it.
It is really sad when you think about it.
That would be a track the size of Connecticut.