ahumbleman's Blog

Chip,
You're "blaming the victim!" Look to the "powers that be" which made Duval Patrick the headliner for purpose of doing their bidding and taking the heat for dirty politics in play long before Deval arrived on scene. With regard to the Tip O'Neil Tunnel, I'd stay out of there if I were you. I don't know if it's 19 million gallons/month up from 13 million or 1.9 million up from 1.3 million gallons of water PER MONTH leaking (but it's one or the other). The "movers and shakers" which created this project and swiped the billions no one's ever accounted for are the ones which gave out the contracts -- possibly to those developers who could hide defects which would ultimately cause the project to go "g-u-s-h" and then, after removing all the dead bodies, testimonial grieving and cleaning up the accident/disaster, the feds will have to come up with another $24 billion to reopen the corridor. Business as usual for Massachusetts. Stay out of that tunnel. 1 gal. of water leaking per month is too much. X million? Who's kidding who here?

It does'nt take a genius to figure this one out.The O'neill tunnel is built so poorly that it will have to be closed and rebuilt,but nobody wants to be the one to tell the public this.Why else would Bechtel-Parsons-Brinckerhoff be willing to pay a Billion dollars and be able to walk away from any future liability.
Chip,I agree,there is no way we are going to see leadership from this Governor.From day one it is clear that he is in over his head.I have never seen a politician who tries to avoid the spotlight like him.I'm not saying that he is a bad person,he just not the person for this job.
There has to be a lot more to this than the public knows,hopefully nobody else gets killed in there

Kelldog, I'm guessing that if there was even an inkling that this tunnel has to be rebuilt, they'd close it today and go after Bechtel with a howitzer. I'm thinking there will be consistent little leaks and ongoing inconveniences. I'm thinking Bechtel just wants out from under the publicity, and is willing to pay for it.

But Holy Cow...what's with Duh-val...of all the thngs to veto when yo are about to make a landmark deal lke this...Child Fire Safety Education Money....sheesh...

Ted Kennedy, Deval Patrick, John Kerry, Barny Frank.... The people that keep voting for these people are fools. This state is a laughing stock!
Yesterday was the anniversary of Chevas Ted driving his car off the bridge and killing a beautiful Mary Jo.
They keep promising the minorities welfare programs to keep them in their place and the minorities buy it hook line and sinker thinking a couple of hundred bucks a week is the Holy Grail. The states left wing elite keep pulling the wool over the eyes of the states poor, all to get their vote. So sad!

WinstonWolfe...what you have said has provoked as muchthought in this elderly head as just about anything written here...I had never "spun" the facts this way...but you are right...absolutley right. It is the liberal Democratic system that has enslaved minorities with a failed and unchanged welfare system.

And now guess what? "Press 1 for English..." Not only is English the AMERICAN language, it is the language of employers...the language of financial independence for immigrants. All that is being done to make immigrants feel free to keep their own language only serves to limit their economic success and thus to hasten them to welfare roles...and thus to a live of ghetto living...not because they CAN'T succeed, but because liberal policy has set in motion actions that limit their likelihood of success.

WOW...good thinking!!!

Who we should be blaming is Mitt Romney who was in office and built the faulty tunnels in the first place. What should he do, not continue to fix them? We are bleeding money for the Highway Dept. even if a kangaroo was in charge of this state after the conception of the "Big Dig". Unfortunately, Deval can't be pinned as bad guy, here.