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From: mrgofor@mmm.UUCP (MKR)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: Line Item Veto at Presidential Level
Message-ID: <576@mmm.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 27-Feb-86 14:07:45 EST
Article-I.D.: mmm.576
Posted: Thu Feb 27 14:07:45 1986
Date-Received: Fri, 28-Feb-86 21:00:32 EST
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Reply-To: mrgofor@mmm.UUCP (MKR)
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In article <563@whuts.UUCP> orb@whuts.UUCP (SEVENER) writes:
> 
>Funding is absolutely *critical* to any laws.  Without the funds to
>enforce a law, it becomes a dead issue.  For example: in 1967
>the Congress passed a law in line with Lady Bird Johnsons pet project
>calling for the banning of all billboards on federal highways.
>Have you noticed the disappearance of billboards in the last 20
>years?  Of course not - because virtually no funding was granted to
>enforce this law, nothing was ever done. (much like some pollution laws)
>
>            tim sevener   whuxn!orb
> 

	The remark about Lady Bird's pet billboard project sets me to wondering
how old you are. You must be too young to remember what the highways were like
before her campaign. It most certainly *did* make a *marked* difference. Things
were getting out of hand for a while there...

-- 
					--MKR

When in Rome, do as the ancient Etruscans used to do before they
became extinct because of the things they used to do.