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As I see it, our biggest mistake in the Udall Bill thinggee was in ONLY asking for $100 million. It's obvious to ME that in asking for such a paltry sum from our government, that we didn' t make an IMPRESSION on that august body. Heck... to your average "good ol boy" politician, a $100 mil, give or take a few million, is simply peanuts! Therefore, we SHOULD have asked for 950 million bucks, and THEN they would have sat up and taken notice! Of COURSE, they would have said THAT was too much money to allocate for an "old people's disease," and then we oh-so-graciously could lower our request to to a more "reasonable" figure - say $600 million. Should that amount still disturb the governmental "powers-that-be," why, ever thoughtful, we could concede and lower our figure just a tad more... to say... ohhhhhh.... $500 million! Why I bet them politicians would be SOOO happy to have saved 450 million big ones because of our being flexible (and ya KNOW how tough it is for a Parkie to be "flexible," unless they're in an "on" mode, of course) <errr .. just a little Parkie " humor here, people> (grin), that they would have BEGGED us to take the $500 million and disappear back into the woodwork where we came from! So remember... in life, but ESPECIALLY when dealing with the government (the entity that wrote the book about the true meaning of the word "inertia"), ya gotta THINK BIG!!! <wee smirk> Barb Mallut [log in to unmask] ---------- From: PARKINSN: Parkinson's Disease - Information Exchange Network on behalf of Keith Sent: Saturday, October 05, 1996 9:04 AM To: Multiple recipients of list PARKINSN Subject: Re: Udall bill - where should we get the money from? At 09:35 PM 10/4/96 -0400, [log in to unmask] wrote: > The next time we are asked where the $100 million >for Parkinson's research should come from, we should keep >in mind this report from tonight's edition of the Buffalo >News: > >"In election year budgeting, Congress takes pains to bring >home the bacon" > > Among the items reported that were included in the >$389 billion spending bill that was passed before Congress >adjourned was the following: > >"$166 million for three WC-130 aircraft, which are specially >equipped to fly into hurricanes and monitor them. They are >built by Lockheed Martin Corp. in Marietta, Ga., in Gingrich's >district, and based at Kessler Air Force Base in >Mississippi - home state of Senate majority leader Trent >Lott. The administration did not request the planes." > >The bill also included "$3 million to begin building the >New Orleans Jazz National Historic Park, thanks to Sen. >Bennett Johnston, D-La., who is retiring," and Pennsylvania >"will receive $3 million under a federal vocational >education program, even though the courts declared the >state ineligible for the money. The provision was inserted >by (Sen.) Specter." > >Senator Lott was quoted as saying, "Yeah, there's a little >pork here and there. But of course, you know pork is in >the eye of the beholder." > >Linda Herman >[log in to unmask] >