Thread: Attn. Michigan Teams: $2,000,000 FIRST Pledge Cancelled
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Unread 31-05-2006, 15:23
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Re: Attn. Michigan Teams: $2,000,000 FIRST Pledge Cancelled
That's rediculous to pull that out of the budget. In terms of government spending, 2 million is pocket change. They recently spent that on one artificial football field at one local high school here. And I'm willing to bet it won't even last. They are already concerned about cars driving on it, lawn chairs sitting on it, and drinks being held over it. Real grass would never complain about that. And they go and spend 2 million dollars on this thing.

The crazy thing is that you could double the size/impact of FIRST (20,000 more students) for only like 7 million dollars ($6,000 grant to ~1150 teams). And they spend just about 2 million on a single football field. Pathetic.
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