Big Dig (aka Ted Kennedy waste) in Mass

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.