[digger48]

What was the cost projection in the '80's? $2 Billion?

Now $14 Billion and counting.

Have to wonder how much of this was merely a funnel from taxpayer through contractors to fat, plain envelopes quietly passed to certain Senators and Congresscitters.

Once again, another Bastion of Liberalism, proves to us all how completely disfuctional Liberalism itself is.

[massfreeper]

I can't bear to watch any of the local news channels out of Boston, but for some reason I didn't reflexively change the channel when the 10:00 news came on after 24 one time last year. They featured an "investigative report" on the Big Dig's cost overruns and other scandals. So at the end of this 20 minute segment, the "reporter" came to the conclusion that this is all Ronald Reagan's fault. That's right. RONALD REAGAN! Never mind that the guy was dead, but he'd been out of office for over 20 years, and they still found a way to blame him. Something about that he didn't want to fully fund the project back in the '80s, and this led to all of the problems. I don't remember the logic (since none was used). It just sickened me.

[PUGACHEV]

Is this the culture of corruption that we've been hearing so much about?

[go-dubya-04]

I grew up in this cesspool of a Commonwealth and would never, for the life of me go back. But this story has nothing to do with "Liberalism"; it is corruption, pure and simple. MA doesn't take a back seat to any other state in the Union when it comes to complete and utter corruption through it's entirety. I will never understand how MA voters just stand by and keep voting these fools back into office year after year. And how there isn't one leader in the Republican Party in that state that doesn't have the balls and vision to tap into the peoples inherent frustration and clean house.