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1 posted on 11/18/2025 7:52:22 AM PST by Red Badger
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To: Red Badger

Ah, Baltimore politics


2 posted on 11/18/2025 7:53:19 AM PST by aynrandfreak (Being a Democrat means never having to say you're sorry)
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It’s a government operation....


3 posted on 11/18/2025 7:53:43 AM PST by 1Old Pro
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It’s the payoffs and the ripoffs ...

fraud and corruption and kickbacks and bribes and unions skimming the contract and politicians getting their cut ...

that’s why the schedule is “extended” ... the long time allows more money laundering.


4 posted on 11/18/2025 7:54:38 AM PST by NorthMountain (... the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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“Preliminary cost and project time estimates were made less than two weeks after the initial crash and before any engineering or design studies were conducted we figured out how much we could get out of it,”

Fixed.

5 posted on 11/18/2025 7:55:03 AM PST by Carry_Okie (The tree of liberty needs a rope.)
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They misspelled triple.


6 posted on 11/18/2025 7:55:34 AM PST by bray (It's not racist to be racist against races the DNC hates.)
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We still don’t know who was piloting the ship.


8 posted on 11/18/2025 7:57:07 AM PST by T.B. Yoits
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9 posted on 11/18/2025 7:57:31 AM PST by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )
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100% government corruption, kickbacks for everyone.


10 posted on 11/18/2025 7:58:37 AM PST by Skwor
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Well, this is a surprise. Who could ever have seen such a thing coming?


11 posted on 11/18/2025 7:59:07 AM PST by HartleyMBaldwin
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If all it does is double, that will be a miracle. Expect it to triple or quadruple once these corrupt incompetents are done.


12 posted on 11/18/2025 7:59:33 AM PST by Opinionated Blowhard (When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.)
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I’m sure all Union jobs....


15 posted on 11/18/2025 8:00:34 AM PST by Sacajaweau
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that bridge is worth ten times as much. We have to make it easier for all those rappers to get to the liquor store


18 posted on 11/18/2025 8:02:58 AM PST by MarlonRando
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Graft costs money.


20 posted on 11/18/2025 8:04:41 AM PST by mykroar ("It's Not the Nature of the Evidence; It's the Seriousness of the Charge." - El Rushbo)
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So no money from the ship’s insurance? Always the taxpayers have to pay...


21 posted on 11/18/2025 8:05:14 AM PST by lula (God is in control.)
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Up 2X from the initial estimate. Can they really come in at $4.3-5.2 B? Or will it double again like the Cal choo-choo?


23 posted on 11/18/2025 8:08:56 AM PST by ProtectOurFreedom
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I bet it falls down a week after co pelt ion in 2045.


24 posted on 11/18/2025 8:12:44 AM PST by Organic Panic ('Was I molested. I think so' - Ashley Biden in response to her father joining her in the shower.)
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Of course

Anyone with a brain knew they low-balled the estimate


25 posted on 11/18/2025 8:16:34 AM PST by digger48
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Have to make sure those DEI contractors get there fair share.


26 posted on 11/18/2025 8:16:36 AM PST by BigFreakinToad (107 Days of Kamal's BS.)
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Recent Harbor Bridge in South Texas. Construction started in 2017, scheduled completion for 2020. It just opened 3 months ago. I have no idea how much the cost overruns were.

Classic illustration of the oxymoron “government work”.


27 posted on 11/18/2025 8:18:16 AM PST by con-surf-ative
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Got to pay for those no show union workers


29 posted on 11/18/2025 8:20:01 AM PST by for-q-clinton (ui)
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