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To: TimF who wrote (301524)	4/17/2009 11:38:10 AM
From: ManyMoose	3 Recommendations Respond to of 793958

an item about $5.2 bil “Neighborhood Stabilization Programs.” So what's neighborhood stabilization? Paying off the street gangs so they don't burn the place down? What? See, that's the problem. Nobody really knows.

To: TimF who wrote (301524)	4/17/2009 11:45:48 AM
From: Hank Scorpio	1 Recommendation Respond to of 793958

"The USS Bush cost only a little bit more than that "neighborhood stabilization" program. $5.2 bil for the program. $6.2bil for the Bush." This is what I was getting at. Not the ongoing maintenance costs. Sure, total costs of a carrier are enormous. Don't even talk about the armada of ships necessary to sail with her. IMO, this is a great illustration of the money going down the sink hole. $5B so ACORN can go around in American neighborhoods and do as they see fit. As far as I am concerned, both are military - or at least pseudo-military - but one is operating domestically.