Kentucky giving 37 million for a new Creationist theme park, featuring Noah's Ark.

[dixiegrrrrl]

Dark Ages, here we come!

First, here is the ARK building web page ( warning, it is creepy):
http://arkencounter.com/

and here is the news story: ( with pics)

http://nky.cincinnati.com/article/AB/20101201/NEWS0103/312010046/Creation-Museum-seeking-tax-breaks-for-theme-park-

Ohhhhhhhh..and a Tower of Babel will be there, too!!!!!

[guitar man]

1. $100 for a peg

$1000 for a plank, $5000 for a beam. Sounds like military contractors are building it :silly:

[karynnj]

2. Is there their answer to climate change?

Adapt to it?

[JackRiddler]

3. wow that's nuts

[snooper2]

4. In four years they will be declaring bankruptucy

nt

[Sen. Walter Sobchak]

5. and like the creation museum 99% of the visitors will be European journalists...

Another thing to be embarrassed about in my international travels...

[WCGreen]

6. So they believe in Leprechauns as well...

Kentucky, you must be so proud...

[sinkingfeeling]

7. How's their unemployment fund?

[PVnRT]

8. The governor is touting the jobs angle

900 minimum wage jobs with no benefits. Yippee.

That might even hold some water, but Grant County (where the park will go) is in the middle of the pack for unemployment, as far as the state goes. It's 10.3% there (not good, slightly above average statewide). Nine of the top ten counties for unemployment in the state (all above 12.9%) are in eastern and southern Kentucky, primarily Appalachia. Magoffin County takes the cake at 18.7(!)%.

If you're going to cut tax deals to bring in low-paying jobs, at least bring them to the people that are even more desperate for them.

[dixiegrrrrl]

20. Interesting and helpful info...thanks.

:hi:

[NNN0LHI]

9. Is it going to be called Jesusland?

[and-justice-for-all]

10. The US constinues its sinking into ignorance more every day..

sad, sad in deed.

[fatbuckel]

11. Wanna impress? Make one guy build it and make it float. Full of animals,too!

[bluetrain]

12. Idiots.

[alp227]

13. and yet less or even no money on researching REAL science?

The anti-intellectualism of America disgusts me so much. Why isn't the Tea Party outraged over THIS? Oh wait...they don't care about science.

[bluetrain]

15. Science is the Devil's work! The earth is flat! Jesus was a magician! Prayer works better than

medicine!

[Blue Owl]

14. A replica of a myth?

Interesting.

:sarcasm:

[AsahinaKimi]

16. They may need that ARK

Once the Republicans kill Global warning legislation. The polar caps will melt and most of the current American coasts will be under water.

[fatbuckel]

17. I bet thats their underhanded plan. A Republican Ark.

[AsahinaKimi]

18. Worked out well

For the Nazi's in RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK...oops! Wrong Ark.

[WolverineDG]

19. Where does it say they are getting $37 outright?

because from what I've read, they've only applied for "tax incentives," which means they get back the sales tax revenue they pay to the state until that reaches 25% of their building costs (with a 10 year time limit). If they don't generate any revenue, they don't get anything.

dg

[dixiegrrrrl]

21. Ahhhh...good point.

Still, isn't there something about "church and state" involved here, ya think?

[WolverineDG]

22. how does it violate that if any business can apply for & receive those incentives?

I see a lot of people having cows over this, but not one of them has come up with an alternative plan to pump $ into the state's economy & employ 900 people (not including those involved in the construction).

dg