The $140b Failure We Don't Talk About
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mitchbobAuthor
4 months ago
https://archive.ph/2025.08.27-090805/https://www.nytimes.com...
quantified
4 months ago
Yeah, well, small-scale politics and greed cause waste. Another transfer of wealth from rich well-run states to poor ones, with good intentions as well as the imperative for George W Bush to be seen as doing something ("heckva job, Brownie!").
abstractspoon
4 months ago
A very depressing read
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