Failing the Chesapeake Bay
27th December 2008
Government administrators in charge of an almost $6 billion cleanup of the Chesapeake Bay tried to conceal for years that their effort was failing — even issuing reports overstating their progress — to preserve the flow of federal and state money to the project, former officials say.
My, what a surprise. Aren’t you surprised? I’m sure surprised.
Pournelle’s Iron Law of Government states that government is in the business of hiring and paying government workers, whatever its formal business may be.