Where I used to boldly go...

"The agency's budget for Superfund cleanups has not changed in the last few years. Since 1995, when Congress did not renew a special tax on polluters, the cleanup money has come entirely from taxpayers. " NY Times 12/5/04 Leading up to this "bureau" cratic imbroglio was the threat of a "loophole" somewhere on the scale or order of "blackholes," gopher holes, sinkholes, etc., in the "language" of rumor (the American spelling) whereby "all banks who granted mortgages to polluters will be found also liable and have their monies extracted" for "Superfund" purposes. I wonder if Newt Gingrich invented that one? They are so wonderfully full of psycholinguistics over there on the other side of the aisle.