> Bottom line seems to be: our procurement regulations and funding practices are wrong. We reward graft, extortion, change orders, and ballooning costs rather than penalizing it. FWIW, it's not just transportation - have you ever looked at health care? Here's one obvious example: engineering and overhead costs as a percentage of construction cost; how could that possibly go wrong?

We also have skewed priorities as to where we want our tax dollars spent. Instead of channeling tax dollars for railroad tunnels inland from the coastal shores of San Clemente and Del Mar and underneath Miramar Hill, we've been hijacked by the Rainbow Mafia into channeling tax dollars to pay for things like (1.) Drag Queen Story Hour presentations at taxpayer-subsidized public libraries; (2.) the taxpayer-subsidized National Public Radio, which recently treated its audience to the sounds made when an abortion takes place; (3.) Planned Parenthood, which now has "abortion mobiles" that take their show "On the Road" a la Charles Kuralt; (4.) taxpayer-subsidized public education, which has recently been modified to become indoctrination centers where minor children are encouraged to engage in clandestine activities that their parents are deliberately being shielded from being informed of; and (5.) taxpayer-subsidized public schools that are teaching Critical Race Theory even though officials insist it is not being taught.

And don't expect any of this to ever be reported by the Main Stream Media.

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