It's almost like they don't think they can get there at all? Was this just "get money from government, fail, keep money" plan of government funding? Although u

It's almost like they don't think they can get there at all? Was this just "get money from government, fail, keep money" plan of government funding? Although usually that's the underbid strategy. Maybe they thought they had an inside track with key, uh, lobbying and uh, donations.