Golden Fleece Award – Issue #43

$175 Million – And Nothing to Show For It!

This issue’s Golden Fleece Award, surrounded by solid gold brocade (we’ll do the same for anyone who wastes $175 Million of your bucks), goes to the Columbia River Crossings Managers.

Yup – $175 Million of your dollars dumped straight into the Columbia River. Most of it shoveled to consultants who weren’t bright enough to figure out that a bridge with only 95 feet of clearance is too low to allow passage of many (most?) cargo ships up and down the river!

Be glad this turkey is gone. If it weren’t we’d be paying more in mitigation costs for upriver manufacturers. How much more? These geniuses wouldn’t tell us.

But don’t be too hard on these dedicated public servants. In our minds it takes one heck of a lot of talent to totally blow $175 Mil.

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