Submitted by Guest461 (not verified) on Mon, 11/30/2009 - 4:09pm.
Maybe this is a make work proposal. Let's see here, the article says 474,000 school busses.
Count 20 bench seats in a school bus with 3 students per seat. That comes to.....mmmmmm.....28 million, 440 thousand seat belts that have to be installed. Now at $50.00 per seat belt to include installation costs, we have a grand total of 1 billion, 422 million dollars to complete this task. Then consider that you organize, budget, supply labor and parts for a government run job on government owned equipment and you can triple the costs. So for a measly 4.5 billion dollars, we can put seat belts in busses. Now...let's look at installing water fountains and hand sanitizing stations in school busses......
Run some numbers on this.......