Posted on 07/17/2008 10:37:53 AM PDT by pabianice
Surprise! The $ 2.4 B Big Dig in Boston is now up to $ 22 B plus! And the federal reimbursement is down from 85% to 27%, leaving MA taxpayers with an unpayable bill due by 2038.
If you like MA, you'll LOVE the U.S. under Barack Obama.
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Did they stop the ceiling from falling onto cars?
That had to add a billion or two.
Your tax dollars at work.
If I like MA, I’ll love the US under BHO:
Yeah, especially if Barack appoints his incompetent buddy Deval Patrick to some Federal office!
They’re STILL doing that?!?
That $$$ could have provided health care for millions!
The MA coastline is dotted with new mega-mansions owned by Big Dig contracters. What a scam.
It’s too bad we couldn’t invest in gubmint project estimates as if they were a stock. Just think how much money we could make!
..What a scam.
Doesn’t matter. They’ll all get reelected.
Dick Cheney’s fault.
That’s the general rule with public works projects up here.....multiply by 10.
Contractors that put bid in for hauling away the Dig dirt....they raised their cost/ton 10X.....and the State paid it.
Wow, the unions must be making a small fortune!
And universal health care is going to cost how much? I’d better retire fast and let the kids pay it for me. They’re the suckers voting for Obama anyway and they’re going to pay most of his bills.
Don't kill the job!
This transcript was automatically generated with speech-to-text technology and may not be 100% accurate.
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And several dozen contractors,union and gofficials have retired to their new mansions in a country with no extradition treaty with the US.
Hey, you tax slaving schmucks. The BIG DIG’S BIG JOKE is on YOU.
Maybe next time you’ll pay attention to who’s lying to you.
And, though there are a few exceptions, you folks up there in the Peoples’s Republik of Taxachussetts who continue to elect Swiftboat Kerry and the lifeguard Ted Kennedy, are getting PRECISELY what you deserve. You had a chance to elect Mildred Jefferson, a black, lady doctor to replace Kennedy, a few years ago and blew it.
Speaking of Kennedy, the Ghoul Watch is officially on. Deval Patrick is readying a large, expensive campaign to take Kennedy’s Senate seat when Ted dies, which, according to doctors, will be soon. Lt. Gov. Murray rolls into the big seat until party insiders chuck him over the fantail in ‘10 for another insider. Patrick’s Statehouse portrait will be done on plastic with a grease pencil.
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Doughboy Murray will make Jane Swift look competent.
Speaker Sal must be drooling waiting for Lefty Murray to be interim Gov.
Nah, Martha Coakley's keeping her fingers crossed -- she said so . . . seems to be working so far, and lot cheaper than more mundane approaches!
I hadn't heard that -- what I heard was more like, I think, 2-5 years. May God have mercy on his soul!
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