Canals in Missouri?

Originally Posted by Jay Honeck

you know someone has spent some tax dollars.

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Jay Honeck

And there you have succinctly stated the real purpose of the ditches: bringing pork home to your constituents (if by constituents you understand me to mean contributors.)

The farm fields of eastern Arkysaw are incredibly fertile and productive because they have been regularly flooded for uncounted centuries. Displaying depressingly typical human wisdom, the farmers demanded that their representatives do something about the spring floods. The representatives threw money at the Corps of Engineers and the Corps happily consolidated and straighted out all those messy creeks and rivers.

Guess who's now spending more on fertilizer and irrigation?

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