History has demonstrated fatal flaw of central planning; it has to use of force for its aims. The proles get bulldozed aside to make room from everything to the great leap forward to great society. This is immoral. That is a funny strip, Rat. Bravo!
Back in the 1970s in my original stomping grounds of Washington State, there was a monumental colossal project failure, and I believe it was an entirely state run boondoggle, without any substantial help from the feds. The Washington Public Power Supply System-WPPSS- which appropriately became nicknamed “Whoops”, built 3 gigantic nuclear cooling towers and the concrete facilities for a huge power plant. The Satsop nuclear power plant. The project was riddled with corrupt contractor/union grift and graft and incompetent administrators. The project ended up hundreds of millions in cost overruns way before it was even close to generating a single watt of power. Then happened 3 Mile Island, and that’s all she wrote folks. The entire thing was abruptly and unceremoniously abandoned and put into “mothballs”. These ominous looking cooling towers remain entirely intact and visible today driving from Olympia to the Pacific Coast near Aberdeen, standing as colossal monuments to the ineptitude of central planning.
Maybe so. I think the 3 mile island debacle gave the state a convenient face-saving excuse for walking away from a project that was failing so miserably that it was beyond repair
Very well done! I was squinting at the background of the first panel and had just decided it looked like it construction site when I saw the rest of the strip 😆
And so castles made of sand
Wash into the sea, eventually.
Okay, this one caught me off-guard - VERY well played 😁
Also: It reminded me of how long it took to replace the towers post-9/11... 🤦🏻
History has demonstrated fatal flaw of central planning; it has to use of force for its aims. The proles get bulldozed aside to make room from everything to the great leap forward to great society. This is immoral. That is a funny strip, Rat. Bravo!
Back in the 1970s in my original stomping grounds of Washington State, there was a monumental colossal project failure, and I believe it was an entirely state run boondoggle, without any substantial help from the feds. The Washington Public Power Supply System-WPPSS- which appropriately became nicknamed “Whoops”, built 3 gigantic nuclear cooling towers and the concrete facilities for a huge power plant. The Satsop nuclear power plant. The project was riddled with corrupt contractor/union grift and graft and incompetent administrators. The project ended up hundreds of millions in cost overruns way before it was even close to generating a single watt of power. Then happened 3 Mile Island, and that’s all she wrote folks. The entire thing was abruptly and unceremoniously abandoned and put into “mothballs”. These ominous looking cooling towers remain entirely intact and visible today driving from Olympia to the Pacific Coast near Aberdeen, standing as colossal monuments to the ineptitude of central planning.
Considering the incompetent administrators, probably a good thing it never went online.
Maybe so. I think the 3 mile island debacle gave the state a convenient face-saving excuse for walking away from a project that was failing so miserably that it was beyond repair
nice one Rat..... Luv it
Very well done! I was squinting at the background of the first panel and had just decided it looked like it construction site when I saw the rest of the strip 😆
In the case of the California high-speed rail, the amount of $ resources allocated to it is astronomical, yet still insufficient.