Eight positive tests in 16,000

[sonias]

AAS 7/10/09
Eight positive tests in 16,000

AUSTIN, Texas — Another 16,000 steroids tests of Texas public high school athletes caught eight cheaters.

The University Interscholastic League on Friday released the latest results of the 2-year-old program. They show that about 45,000 total tests have confirmed 19 cases of steroids use.

Given so few positive results, state lawmakers have agreed to scale it back over the next two years. The Legislature slashed spending for the program from $6 million to $2 million.

What a huge waste of taxpayer money! This program should have been slashed to zero! Two million dollars is still a hell of a lot of money to be wasting. I wonder which of Perry's business friends is reaping the rewards of a state contract? :grr:


Sonia

[ret5hd]

1. one-half of one-half of a percent!

oh god, the horror!

[Gulftrout]

2. Gotta send a Message

Strickly by the $$ spent/per caught using steroids ratio this program is a failure.
A message has to bev sent to kids though. I have to believe that the kids using steroids are
being protected by win at all cost coaches.

[mp9200]

6. Yeah!

Terrible, isn't it? (sarcasm)

[Aragorn]

3. how would one find out?

Seriously. I guess if one knew a coach who knew enough this could be checked out.

BTW which company runs the Tx Medicaid drug program, and which former (p)resident got them the contract to do so when he got lots of $$$ from them to get elected governor?

[hobbit709]

4. That's our lege

Penny wise and pound foolish. Or in a lot of cases, just foolish.

[sonias]

5. Another example of Perry's waste of money

AAS 7/12/09
Perry's border Web camera program misses goals

AUSTIN, Texas — Gov. Rick Perry's border Web camera program is out of money after a first year that fell far short of the goals for arrests and reports of illegal crossings.

An internal report showed that just 17 of 200 cameras — one for every 70 miles of the 1,200-mile Texas-Mexico border — were installed with a $2 million federal grant received last year.

Reports obtained by the El Paso Times indicate that nearly 125,000 people registered as "virtual Texas deputies," but those extra eyes led to just eight drug busts and 11 arrests. The cameras were expected to generate 1,200 arrests.

About 300 illegal immigrants were reported to the U.S. Border Patrol, far short of the 4,500 expected.

Texas Border Sheriffs Coalition chief Don Reay says the goals were unrealistic.

Unrealistic? No shit! Two million dollars for 17 cameras which led to 11 arrests. How does this incompetent Governor get away with this kind of performance? His hot air is enough to be a contributing factor in global warming. :grr:

Sonia

[NoPasaran]

7. What a boondoggle!

Two million dollars sounds like a lot of money, but for two hundred cameras that's just $10,000 per position. Considering that the cameras would have to be installed in remote, inhospitable locations, weatherproofed, tamperproofed (to the extent that that's possible), powered, networked back to a control station somewhere, 10K/position is pretty unreasonable. The fact they only got 17 cameras going before blowing through all the money makes me think that they awarded the contract to someone who had no idea what they were doing. Maybe those who DID know looked at the project and decided there really wasn't enough money in it to provide a functioning system.