Path: ...!weretis.net!feeder9.news.weretis.net!xmission!usenet.csail.mit.edu!.POSTED.hergotha.csail.mit.edu!not-for-mail From: wollman@hergotha.csail.mit.edu (Garrett Wollman) Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written Subject: Re: The insane progress nobody is talking about Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2024 16:16:11 -0000 (UTC) Organization: MIT Computer Science & Artificial Intelligence Lab Message-ID: References: Injection-Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2024 16:16:11 -0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: usenet.csail.mit.edu; posting-host="hergotha.csail.mit.edu:207.180.169.34"; logging-data="96296"; mail-complaints-to="security@csail.mit.edu" X-Newsreader: trn 4.0-test77 (Sep 1, 2010) Originator: wollman@hergotha.csail.mit.edu (Garrett Wollman) Bytes: 2149 Lines: 27 In article , Paul S Person wrote: >[MBTA troubles] >Perhaps a thorough audit focused on where the money is going (ie, how >many brothers-in-law of various officials are getting the contracts) >would help. > >This is /exactly/ the sort of task a sane Republican would seem to be >ideal for. We had eight years of Charlie Baker, the exact sort of person usually described as "a sane Republican"[1] and he made things worse, not better. Of course the State Auditor is a separate (elected) position and I don't know what they were auditing. (Probably the lottery. Auditors love to audit the lottery, because there's almost always some theft they can uncover, just by the nature of the beast.) -GAWollman [1] Business background, tall, good hair, wears a suit well. -- Garrett A. Wollman | "Act to avoid constraining the future; if you can, wollman@bimajority.org| act to remove constraint from the future. This is Opinions not shared by| a thing you can do, are able to do, to do together." my employers. | - Graydon Saunders, _A Succession of Bad Days_ (2015)