Comments on: Who will do what in Georgia’s fight for water

By: Water

Water — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 13:54:25 +0000

Lake Lanier would never have been constructed if it weren’t for the City of Atlanta lobbying for its creation. The fact that the CITY OF ATLANTA did not pay for its construction is a minor point that got overemphasized by Judge Mangnuson in his effort to too quickly dispense with a case he clearly found to be an irritating imposition to his duties back in Minnesota. (Sidebar: what if the City of Atlanta HAD paid for part of the Lake’s construction in the 1940s and 1950s? That still would have left out Cobb, Gwinnett, Fulton, Dekalb and the rest).

I for one am glad our Congressional delegation is beginning to unite and talk seriously about legislation. It should have started 5 years ago. But, if AL and FL block it in Congress, they will have the blood of the 8th largest metropolitan area in the United States on their hands.

By: The Masters

The Masters — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 12:38:39 +0000

Glad I live in Augusta, our Congressmen will only make things worse

By: Imperial Sugar

Imperial Sugar — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 11:06:55 +0000

Good thing we have Senator Chambliss in our back pocket, all our Florida lands will get all the water they need.

By: F22 Guy

F22 Guy — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 10:36:12 +0000

I counted on Saxby to save my job but he did not have the political strength to get congress to waste more money, how can he ever get Florida and Alabama to do things that are not in their interest? Face it we have the worse Senators in Congress, they are simply a joke.

By: DannyX

DannyX — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 02:23:39 +0000

Here’s how the big water fight will go down….

Gov Perdue will shout out ‘MARCO”…..His staff will say “Brilliant strategy.” They’ll huddle around eagerly waiting for “POLO,” to be shouted out by both Alabama and Florida.

It’ll be intense.

By: Base

Base — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 02:12:11 +0000

Thanks to sorry Sonny we are on the short end of the water issue no matter how it goes.the good times are over.

By: clyde

clyde — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 01:12:22 +0000

It’s very simple.Atlanta has for years used water to which it was not entitled to use.Now a bunch of politicians have to manufacture enough words to make this problem go away.

By: The Sarge

The Sarge — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 00:53:40 +0000

Let’s try to boil this whole thing down to “understandable reality”:

1) For the last 70-or-so years, Georgia, and in particular, Atlanta, has been the recipient of a resource, water, which, by law, they really were not entitled to.

2) Inasmuch as Georgia never contributed one thin dime toward the construction of Buford Dam, the NATIONAL infrastructure which makes this water available in the first place, one might conclude that Georgia, for a great many years, has assumed a sense of entitlement to that which is, in reality, not there for the sole purpose of regional glut.

Instead of our “leaders” taking a “the-sky-is-falling” panic approach to the issue, perhaps they should consider the fact that Atlanta is indeed not the center of the water war universe, that there just might be other pressing needs outside of that idiotic Gold Dome. Or are these self-annointed Little Lord Fontlerys going to “hold their collective breath, take their marbles and go home, and cry “We’re loosing billions upon billions in development”! CRYBABYS…

By: History Repeats...

History Repeats... — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 00:40:23 +0000

This will only work if the 250,000 are deathers or birthers or teabaggers or something like that–
somebody the right-wingers would actually mind losing– better yet make it 500,000… just kidding…

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