Are you tired of paying for boondoggles?

Phil Andrews, Montgomery County MD councilman, called the Silver Spring Transit Center a "monumental debacle". I agree.  What I'm getting tired of is paying for other people's boondoggles, whether it's the Silver Spring Transit Center, the Purple Line, or, for that matter, any public-private partnership, anywhere.

Federal funding typically makes up the largest share of these public-private partnership boondoggles. That means that all of us pay--from all 50 states and US territories. 

Local politicians can reward their cronies with a sole-source government contract, and we all pay for their cronyism. It's not right. If politicians from Montgomery County MD, or any other jurisdiction, decide to non-competitively select their buddies for fat government contracts, instead of selecting private government contractors in open competition, then let the local jurisdiction pay 100% for the "monumental debacle" that results. It's only fair.

Stop fleecing US taxpayers with "monumental debacle" public private partnerships, like the Silver Spring Transit Center and the Purple Line.

Silver Spring Transit Center 
Paul S. Sarbanes Transit Center 
Montgomery County MD 
public-private partnership 
government spending 
government waste 
WMATA
Federal Transit Administration (FTA) 
Maryland Transit Administration (MTA) 
Purple Line 
Gov. Hogan