I worked for the company that built this project.
Although I was on another project, I received the intracompany propaganda about this project - they put out glossy newsletters and stuff like that.
It was apparent that this concept was iffy from the get go.
The company made a lot of $$$ building it.
That’s how it always goes, isn’t it.
I listened to Sarah Palin’s 2011 speech, in the rain, in a hilly field in Iowa, thinking she might declare for the 2012 prez race. She didn’t; but she schooled me, and anyone who would listen, on crony capitalism, and pounded away, 5 years ago at that whole concept and at many of the other issues on which Trump is resonating — the Washington elites, the establishment, crony capitalism, lobbyists — all of it.
Your example is an aspect of how things are done, and of our present attempts to overturn it. May God grant us the perseverance and strength to see it through. For, as we can see today, it is an upstream swim against enormous forces, both foreign and domestic, democrat and republican.