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Remove all the graft and corruption and it might turn out to be something reasonable. _________________________________________________________________________ “A man’s treatment of a dog is no indication of the man’s nature, but his treatment of a cat is. It is the crucial test. None but the humane treat a cat well.” -- Mark Twain, 1902 | |||
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If they study and plan for another 10 years I'm sure the costs will come down... 
They forgot to include the "robust pier protection system designed to protect the new Key Bridge". Maybe they also forgot the line item for "graft and corruption" in the initial estimates. "Some things are apparent. Where government moves in, community retreats, civil society disintegrates and our ability to control our own destiny atrophies. The result is: families under siege; war in the streets; unapologetic expropriation of property; the precipitous decline of the rule of law; the rapid rise of corruption; the loss of civility and the triumph of deceit. The result is a debased, debauched culture which finds moral depravity entertaining and virtue contemptible." -- Justice Janice Rogers Brown "The United States government is the largest criminal enterprise on earth." -rduckwor | |||
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They're going to/are getting bit by the same "bug" that most of the federal and state contracts get bit by. X percent of the prime contacts have to go to "minority owned" businesses. Most of those "businesses" are usually pass through contractors who take their cut and end up subbing out the work to another contractor that takes their cut until you get down to the local unions that also take their cut. All one has to do is look up US DOT DBE programs. DBE's(Disadvantaged Business Enterprises) prioritize 51% ownership by "socially and economically disadvantaged individuals". The rub is that many of those companies are a smoke screen that subcontract every project they get, take their share of the pie, and don't really DO anything except add costs to a project. __________________________________ NRA Benefactor I lost all my weapons in a boating, umm, accident. http://www.aufamily.com/forums/ | |||
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