Mac Daddy - 8 hours ago
Hoover Dam was designed, excavated, and built by a consortium of six
major private sector construction companies known as "Six Companies,
Inc.". The ONLY thing Congress did was to authorize construction of the
dam and appropriate the funds necessary via the Boulder Canyon Project
Act of 1928. See section 2 of that act for the financial details. All of
the planning and construction was left to the private contractors. Six
Companies did the job so well that it completed the project two years
ahead of schedule.
In contrast, to see a glaring example of pure government leadership, you
need look no farther than "Ground Zero" in NYC. More than a decade has
passed since 911 and that place is still nothing more than an ugly
miserable mud pit with NO plans whatsoever for the future. Mayor
Bloomberg heads that dead-end government-run project.
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