I don't disagree with the gentleman's comments. It's a good program, although it has been a flawed program. Hopefully, it's been improved. My point is that this could be better done in the private sector, a fee or whatever paid directly to whatever private entity out there that would be nonprofit for this. Why should the taxpayers have to subsidize it? That's really the issue here.
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Isn't the problem, in fact, it doesn't matter how much money you throw at, it doesn't matter who you put in charge, if you don't hold people accountable for their actions or lack of actions, you are never going to get good results.
In fact, Louisiana is losing I believe, I am not absolutely certain about this, but something in the area of an acre a day of coastline.
I have become a huge supporter in terms of the work done and accomplished, a fan, in fact, of the many good things that EDA has done since 1965.
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