Back to local events here in Massachusetts. The Big Dig is a national project. Taxpayers all over this country had the honor of paying for the largest urban traffic project known to the United States. Lots of people got rich. A "Big Dig Estate" is a catch phrase around these here parts. Don't rock the boat if you know of a problem. Kerry, our fearless senator, used the Keep the Money Flowing phrase. Now, a woman was killed in one of the tunnel when a ceiling panel, 3 tons of concrete worth, let loose and collapsed the passenger side of the car she was riding in. Her husband driving was able to crawl from the wreckage and who knows how he is able to get through the next hour of his life not to mention the next day.
Here we have the door opened on a project that cost 15 billion dollars. The chairman of the project and the turnpike system which also controls the airport security that failed is refusing to resign as requested by just about everyone in the state. The last chairman to leave left after 9/11. She left a very wealthy woman. This guy won't be leaving until all the pressure he can bring to bear has been brought to buy him a healthy overstuffed paycheck. The shredders will not be running until he has those assurances from everyone whose hands were in the bag of goodies that the Big Dig brought to the king pins here in Massachusetts. I feel like we are in the middle of a Sicilian town centuries ago. The mob is searching for some victims to feed the unwashed masses so they will all settle down and return to paying the tribute.
Egad what a nasty greedy snarled up mess. And that's just the elected representative group. Their associates are legion, and vote; thus the return of the worst of the worst to office.
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