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Trump’s $14M reflecting pool project couldn’t stop algae from blooming in the DC heat
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This sounds personal in some way. Know someone who bid on it?
I doubt they do. Want to know why? Because nobody fucking bid on it.
It is personal to me because it was a no-bid contract for under $2 million that increased by over 700% to $14 million of money directly from taxpayers. This is my money.
Want to try to defend that, or...?
Are you familiar with large capital projects and how much a project funded by public money is allowed to increase by legally? Because I am.
It's 20% the original contract amount in most places. Not 700%.
I'm just trying to understand how you know pipes are the problem? I ain't defending shit, but your speaking with authority and in depth knowledge. Is it bull shit? If you think I'm defending anything here that's just projection on your part.
It’s been all over the news.
This sounds like you're a conservative on Lemmy. Fuckin weird.
Lol? Question someone speaking as if they have inside knowledge makes you conservative?
I really hope you're just a bot.Q
Yeah definitely a bot with years of non-bot-like history
Oh no. Man I had no idea what you were trying to say on first read. No. It's just this shit happens all the time in Tennessee. Our State Government gets told what the fundamental issue is, they create some cheap stop-gap solution, it fails two or three years down the road.
Like if you ever drive on Interstate 24 in Tennessee this kind of thing is in your face like all the time. Also the State prison healthcare going on here is just chef kiss perfect example of failing to understand root cause.
"Prisoners keep dying in prison because of sickness, I know! Let's just privatize it." Prisoners keep dying. "I don't know where we went wrong?!" It's hard to feel like justice is served if everything that lands someone in prison exposes them to a incredibly high rate of death by disease.
We all had to pay for it.