[muawiyah]

Early 60s engineers designed in inferior materials. Self-dealing inspectors failed to report problems.

This sounds like the way the Kennedy/Johnson administration ran the Viet Nam war from the White House basement.

It's actually not symptomatic of the age ~ rather of the Democrat dominated political structure in this country.

This same sort of approach is where we get the Global Warming panic. Government weathermen and computer programmers create climate models that satisfy the demands of their politician bosses.

These problems are a demonstration of why every function of government must eventually be tied into the economic and totally privatized.

[Jim Noble]

These problems are a demonstration of why every function of government must eventually be tied into the economic and totally privatized.

OTOH, the government also built this:

There's a big gap between the Lincoln Tunnel and Boston's "Big Dig", too.

So it's not only government vs. private sector at work - it's government's recent affection for lack of standards that's the real problem.

[bert]

.....Early 60s engineers designed in inferior materials....

What a great piece of slander. Where is your reference for this claim?