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	Name:	MartiniMan -
	Subject:	Just a thought....
	Date:	5/16/2007 2:52:54 PM

LTL:

I really think you are right about this. We have to understand that the city ultimately wants to comply with their discharge limits, they live in the community, they want clean water like everyone else. Their dilemna is that they don't have the financial resources to immediately fix the problem and more than likely they are left with a problem ignored by their predecessors. Filing lawsuits only ties up their finite resources, distracts them from the task at hand and at the end of the day may only delay the solution. The key is to provide them with sufficient "motivation", i.e., political pain and agony, that will drive them to solve the problem quickly and efficiently. As Frederic Bastiat so aptly put it, "Goverment creates nothing". Whatever money they spend defending against a citizen's lawsuit is ultimatey paid for by us in the form of taxes.