Boston Jobs Program Goes Awry

The Big Dig, the $14 billion Boston highway boondagle, has started to kill people. I lived in Boston in the early 90s when this project was being debated. I never saw the need for it, and I don't think any other residents did, but John Kerry, our US Senator pushed it through Congress saying it would create jobs. At what cost? Well,that didn't matter. What mattered was trade union votes for John Kerry, who could barely get re-elected in Massachusetts versus libertarian Bill Weld.

Mitt Romney, gorgeous (I have seen him in person, and, yes, he is hot) venture capital god and Mormon homophobe is responding well to this crisis.

I lived in downtown Boston when this thing was being constructed and I can say from firsthand experience that it was a horror. All night long the pile drivers drove, the trucks with their searing back-up alarms kept me awake to prevent running over non-existent children (libertarians, unite on getting rid of those heinous alarms on trucks as no babies are crawling under dumptrucks), and I would look out my window and see one guy on a tractor and three state police officers drinking coffee while they got triple time wages, as only in Mass do you need state troopers on hand for any road work. I have to get out of this state, I thought, and did.

The worst thing is that the new tunnel is designed as a commuter bypass and makes living downtown totally suck, as you cant get they-ah from he-ah anymore as there are no downtown exits.