Posted on 01/07/2025 5:01:13 PM PST by SeekAndFind
If you are curious, here is the sign translation:
Looks like it is after 5 PM, time for a drink. I'll get tight, maybe touch some young girl's breasts, Jill will try to stop me, and the young girl's father will threaten to cut off my left hand. Whaddya gonna do?
Bkmk
This problem is one of the first things that needs to be addressed by DOGE.
Let me give you some examples. I was once hired by a State of Washington Correction Center to help them with some equipment that needed to be replaced. I explained to them that I could design some modifications and recommend some maintenance programs the would allow the equipment to be “good as new.”
I was told by the head of Capital Projects for the Dept of Corrections that the legislature always cut his O&M Budget, but if he showed that major equipment had broken and had to be replaced, they would give him the money for that. He also told me that if something was being built, he could “capitalized” or charge off part of his staff to the project capital budget. That allowed him to have more employees.
I ran across the same “institutional logic” in city and county public works departments.
It doesn't matter if it is roads, bridges, sewer systems, electric facilities, etc. The logic is the same.
Oh, now let me tell you my real pet peeve. I had a serious discussion about a regional sewage treatment plant. They wanted to built if not for the current need, but for a huge future quantity that was not forecast to be needed for say 30 to 40 years. The logic was that they could get the federal grant money now and build it with federal money.
I asked what what the estimated life of say the electric motors and the electronic control technology? I asked if over building was just going to waste the value of many of the over-sized pumps and they would need to be replaced before they were needed either from having worn out by being used for many years at partial capacity below their peak efficiency or by being technologically obsolete? I also asked why they needed to build a brand new facility rather than upgrading the existing wastewater facility? They really didn't want to think about those things.
Again, the idea behind DOGE is really important. Yes, we have infrastructure that has not been maintained that needs to be replaced.........but we need to maintain that new infrastructure instead of allowing it to deteriorate.
When the government gets involved it cost $8B for one EV charging station... Nuff said
How about endless wars like Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan, and Ukraine.
Oh yea. And how about a trillion-dollar military budget to police the rest of the world with bases scattered across the globe? You know, almost 15% of our national budget!
Not hard to figure out.
Governments high and low have been spending our money on the invasion meant to destroy us and on social programs for mental illness reconfigured as noble courage under dastardly racist sexist oppression.
It has to stop.
Municipalities, states and the Feds need to cover the basic and projected costs of maintenance FIRST, including adequate civil engineering, and police, fire and utility workers who can all pass the test of the highest qualifications, without lowered standards for sex or race.
They cancelled the Power Outage! Reason: Weather - it was to replace a pole.
I am a happy camper!
Great news.
Replacing a pole can be done when the weather isn’t so bad.
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