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Re: Sponsor Criticized by Newspaper
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Originally Posted by artdutra04
The Big Dig is again but a single one of hundreds of projects around the country funded by the government; unfortunately, the Big Dig just started hemorrhaging funds left and right, almost as quickly as the Boston Harbor tried in earnest to flood the tunnels. (But as someone who has been to and remembers Boston before the Big Dig, it is definitely a LOT better now).
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The Big Dig is a horrible example because you can actually prove that it was a mismanaged project that probably cost too much money which actually killed someone. Better? Yes. Wasted a lot of money? Yes.
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