Individual Liberty — Individual Responsibility

For those we lost, We will not forget 09/11/2001

“The task of statesmanship has always been the re-definition of these rights in terms of a changing and growing social order.”
— Franklin D. Roosevelt (Commonwealth Club Address, 1932)

“Roosevelt was wrong! The principles laid down in the Declaration of Independence are the principles of individual liberty. Our unalienable rights, given to us by God are given to us as individuals. Our rights do not come from society or the government, and they cannot be redefined by politicians. The nature of these rights carries with it the implication of individual responsibility, without which we surrender them.”
— Perri Nelson, November 6, 2008

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Not enough time to get it right.

Published Sun, Feb 11 2007 1:55 PM
Technorati Tags: News and Politics, Transportation

That's what the "expert" panel tasked with reviewing "tunnel light" has to say about their rush job. They don't have enough time to let the people know if they can trust the city of Seattle's cost estimates for Greg Nickel's latest legacy building scheme. From the Seattle Times:

A panel of outside experts, flown into Seattle this week to study a four-lane Alaskan Way tunnel and other highway options along the waterfront, dissolved itself this afternoon, saying there's not enough time to do its job right.
Legislative leaders and Gov. Christine Gregoire recently re-called their Expert Review Panel and gave it a deadline of Tuesday to answer several questions, including whether the public can trust the city government's cost estimate of $3.4 billion for a four-lane tunnel.
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City ballots will be mailed out Feb. 21 to Feb. 23, without benefit of advice from the panel, which was appointed last summer by Gregoire and legislative committee leaders to study the Viaduct and Highway 520.

There's not enough time for an expert panel to review the cost estimates. They were thrown together hastily in a last-ditch effort to get a tunnel that the people of Seattle might agree to.

If the question is "can you trust the cost estimates prepared by the city" I think the answer is pretty clear. There's no way you can trust them.

Oh... that's right... they're politicians.

Their foolishness never ends.