Big Dig (aka Ted Kennedy waste) in Mass

Nice to see my tax dollar hard at work in the great state of Mass. After wasting billions of federal tax dollars on that corrupt Kennedy project, today a person was crushed when part of it fell apart. Both the Senators and the Governor (two democrats and a republican) should resign for wasting tax dollars so their corrupt friends could make billions.

http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/07/11/big....ap/index.html

[whorstman]

Originally Posted by boldruler

Nice to see my tax dollar hard at work in the great state of Mass. After wasting billions of federal tax dollars on that corrupt Kennedy project, today a person was crushed when part of it fell apart. Both the Senators and the Governor (two democrats and a republican) should resign for wasting tax dollars so their corrupt friends could make billions.

http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/07/11/big....ap/index.html

That is horrible. I supports techs that were in that area and one of them got caught in the traffic stemming from that. He was about a half hour from being in that tunnel. Creepy, ya just never know.

Just take one look at Eddie Kennedy ...

... and you'll see where all the pork went.

[Suffolk Shippers]

Originally Posted by boldruler

Nice to see my tax dollar hard at work in the great state of Mass. After wasting billions of federal tax dollars on that corrupt Kennedy project, today a person was crushed when part of it fell apart. Both the Senators and the Governor (two democrats and a republican) should resign for wasting tax dollars so their corrupt friends could make billions.

http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/07/11/big....ap/index.html

I'm not going to disagree that the Big Dig is a pork mess, but at least pin the blame on the right people in this case. The long since passed away Speaker of the House Tip O'Neill, when controlling the Democratic House when Reagan was President, lobbied to get this money funded for the Big Dig on a federal level. Kennedy may have some small hands in it, but Tip O'Neill is the main man and hes been dead years. In fact I think one of the tunnels is the Tip O'Neill tunnel. However, over the years, Kennedy, John Kerry and Mitt Romney have all called for probes and action against parts of the Big Dig, they are more part of the solution than the problem.

Originally Posted by Suffolk Shippers

I'm not going to disagree that the Big Dig is a pork mess, but at least pin the blame on the right people in this case. The long since passed away Speaker of the House Tip O'Neill, when controlling the Democratic House when Reagan was President, lobbied to get this money funded for the Big Dig on a federal level. Kennedy may have some small hands in it, but Tip O'Neill is the main man and hes been dead years. In fact I think one of the tunnels is the Tip O'Neill tunnel. However, over the years, Kennedy, John Kerry and Mitt Romney have all called for probes and action against parts of the Big Dig, they are more part of the solution than the problem.

Anything that goes on in that state goes through Kennedy. He just replace Tip O'Neill. If Kennedy, Romney and Kerry are really calling for probes then where are they? Nobody could stop those people if they were serious.

The Big Dig is the biggest waste of tax payer dollar in the history of this country. This isn't some Republican or Democrat thing either. Companies like Bechtel are the big winners.

"The Big Dig is the single most expensive highway project in American history. Although the project was estimated at $2.5 billion in 1985, when the last major highway section opened in December 2003, over $14.6 billion had been spent in federal and state tax dollars as of 2006."

How can something be estimated at $2.5B and wind up at $14.6B. Easy, Ted Kennedy and others wanted those jobs in his state and the rest of the country paid for it. The federal money comes directly from the gas tax which hits the poor the hardest. Some champion of the poor that Ted Kennedy. As for Kerry, I wished I hadn't voted for him, but he was the lesser of the two evils.

Originally Posted by boldruler

Some champion of the poor that Ted Kennedy.

Here's something I've always wondered about ...

... if Eddie Kennedy is such a champion of the poor, blacks, Hispancis, and other minorities ... why has he held on so tenaciously ... for over 40 years ... to the Senate seat from Massachusetts?

Why hasn't he stepped aside and allowed a black man ... or Hispanic woman ... or anyone else who would automatically win on the Democrat ticket ... to represent the state?

Isn't there a qualified black, Hispanic, Asian, or Native American ... who could do a creditable job representing the leftist voters of Massachusetts?

And ... oh, yeah ... who's that other big, goofy-looking, white boy gigolo who's holding onto the other Massachusetts senate seat?

[Downthestretch55]

And ... oh, yeah ... who's that other big, goofy-looking, white boy gigolo who's holding onto the other Massachusetts senate seat?

John Kerry.

Bold B,
Your brilliance continues to underwhelm me.
Thought you'd post a link to one of your rightwing propaganda sites, as for sure, they'd have something that he's totally responsible for the tie clips failing.

Originally Posted by Downthestretch55

And ... oh, yeah ... who's that other big, goofy-looking, white boy gigolo who's holding onto the other Massachusetts senate seat?

John Kerry.

Bold B,
Your brilliance continues to underwhelm me.
Thought you'd post a link to one of your rightwing propaganda sites, as for sure, they'd have something that he's totally responsible for the tie clips failing.

I usually vote for the Democrats but the Kennedy family is a disgrace. They claim to be champions of the poor but they find millions of ways to put themselves above the law. If it isn't guys raping women, or drowning women, or driving drunk (and lying about it), it is saying you are an environmentalist, except if the windmills are going in the waters where my family likes to sail. They are a disgrace.