[Sicvee]

Connelly is a whiny old lib who has been writing for the PI forever. Money spent for Hanford cleanup mainly serves to pacify environmentalist paranoids in Seattle and Portland. It is something that the feds should have taken care of long ago and to call it economic stimulus is bogus. It is just job security for contractors that have been sucking on the teat for 40 years.

[Steve_Seattle]

"Connelly is a whiny old lib who has been writing for the PI forever. Money spent for Hanford cleanup mainly serves to pacify environmentalist paranoids in Seattle and Portland. It is something that the feds should have taken care of long ago and to call it economic stimulus is bogus. It is just job security for contractors that have been sucking on the teat for 40 years."

The other point about Hanford is that it was originally constructed as part of the World War II effort to develop the atomic bomb; hence, its purpose was not local, but national, and the "cost-per-resident" was all out of proportion - because of the enormous cost of that kind of research - to the local population. Any long-term environmental issues at the site are truly the responsibility of the federal government; they are not pork-barrel handouts to the average citizen who voted for Doc Hastings.