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Originally Posted by DA COVE
It's BP's money anyway. The farmers voluntered to help prep. fields hoping to steer the migration away from the areas affected by the spill. Now they have to deal with getting reimbursed by obama's bunch.
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Thats the problem right there
As much as people gripe about our federal gov't, they are first in line when it comes to handouts from them. Most of the farmers were going to flood their fields anyways and didn't sign up for the aid before they flooded. They wanted 'backpay' once they flooded their fields which they were going to do anyways. This plan was in the works prior to the BP oil spill, it took the spill to get it in action, the plan was not so much for ducks but for shorebirds
DU didn't come up with this idea, DU simply has the capacity to get things accomplished and being a non-profit, non-government agency - they have a LOT less red tape to cut through than our state and federal agencies. They helped get this done in a very fast manner, they are not to blame, they were essentially the 'messenger that got shot'
:disclaimer I am not a member of said organization, nor the other organization, just want to get some facts out there