>From Lawrence: > There used to be US gov't funding some years ago, but it was > discontinued. > > The fact that it received such funding is being used to bolster current > claims to credibility.
My theory is that funding continues on RV, just that it was intentionally driven even deeper into black ops. I recall there was a big bru-ha-ha in congress about how absurd it was that our government was caught red-handed spending precious taxpayer's money on boondoggle programs... and of course a RV program was a perfect target to go after... a symbol of wasted taxpayer money. At the end of the day various congressional leaders and senators could pat and self congratulate themselves and tell their constituents that they had saved their country money, so please go ahead and re-elect me again for looking out for your best tax dollar interests. I suspect much of that publicity may have been carefully managed - in the sense that those who were running RV programs may have decided that what they were doing was getting a little to visible as far as they were concerned. It was time to drive RV programs deeper under cover. I suspect they got their way. I bet it's business as usual. ;-) Regards Steven Vincent Johnson www.OrionWorks.com www.zazzle.com/orionworks
