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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: ManyMoose who wrote (264931)	6/18/2002 1:05:48 AM
From: Raymond Duray	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

TRENT LOTT HAS SOME EXPLAINING TO DO: nytimes.com A Cruise Liner for Troops Is Unfinished and Unloved By LESLIE WAYNE Two years ago, with waving flags and hula dancers swaying, the government announced an ambitious program to build two passenger cruise ships — the first in a United States shipyard since the 1950's — and provided more than $1 billion in loan guarantees to get the program going. It did not hurt that the ships were to be built in the Pascagoula, Miss., shipyard where the father of Trent Lott, the Republican Senate minority leader, once worked. As a result, Senator Lott became one of the strongest supporters of the program, which was named Project America. Today, the project is being derided as an example of political pork gone wrong. What remains of Project America is an unfinished hull the size of two football fields and pieces for a second ship lying around. The hull is not floatable; it has neither a completed bow or stern; and its future is in doubt. The price to the government for the failed project is $187 million — money the government is trying to recoup by putting the half-finished hull on the market. <Continues......> """"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""" How many welfare queens could we support with that $187 Million in pure wasted pork? Trent's really got some explaining to do.... <g> -Ray