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No, we should stop fucking up public projects. Nothing says we have to.

• jessaustin 8y ago
  There are massive vested interests saying just that. They have the ear of all the relevant public officials, because they pay for that ear. Boondoggle public works projects are a transfer of wealth from the public to those interests. We might as well say, "let's spend less on the military!" Yes that would be great, but what we have is what the system produces. The easy way to do this better would be to pick out a firm who had done a good job on a similar project overseas, and tell them to do the same thing under the same rules with the same workers, except over here, and we'll pay a 25% premium to cover relocation expenses. Hell we could pay a 50% premium and still come out way ahead. This would never happen, but it's instructive to think about all of the different levers the system would pull to prevent it.