Oh, merde.
Engineers who do not leave the wind tunnel and drawing board.
Those who can, do. Those who can’t do, coach. Those who can’t do or coach, consult. Those who can’t do, coach or consult, work for the government.
Not an accident.
This is just an excuse to spend MORE of “other people’s money.”
A Frenchman named Bastiat wrote the book "Economic Sophisms" where he advised a way to create more small town jobs in France. Bastiat's idea was to vary the distance from track to track so that wide rail train contents would have to be transferred to less-wide rail trains, and vice-versa, in a town to town pattern.
The solution is to demolish the city and build a new one.
Measure twice, cut once.
Our administration would never admit error. It would blame it all on Bush instead. Or greedy capitalist pigs. Or anyone critical of islamoNazi terrorist thugs.
The story goes that the master carpenter of the amusement park we frequented as kids built new boats for the “Over the Falls” water ride, one of the park’s most popular attractions. Working nearly alone, he took most of the off season to complete them.
Just before the park opened for the 1948 season, they floated the new boats in the pond at the start of the series of dark tunnels leading to the steep falls for which the ride is named. Not one boat leaked. Then one of the boats was released to the first concrete chute and tunnel: It promptly jammed in the chute about a third of the way in. It was pulled out and another tried with the same result. Every boat this poor fellow had spent 6 months building was too wide.
The story we all chose to believe was that the carpenter stayed drunk for the next several days. Late one night, he tied one end of a rope to a stout timber at the top of the last drop, put his head through a noose at the other and jumped. The story had it that he fell so far he was decapitated.
Investment tip: Go LONG on rope in the French Commodity Market.