When most anyone gets up in the morning and goes to work - they hope to make a difference.  Pride in your job and how well you do it is what we're taught from early on.  At the very least, they hope to do well enough to keep a job.  Every  day I drive and see the conditions of our roads I wonder what the DOT worker thinks.  Doesn't he or she have a little STING to his mood or a BRUISE to their ego driving through what we're told is a road?  

The Mayor's 'pothole' add claims repairs within 48 hours - Fort Weaver has had a seam running down the middle of it for SIX years and that seam has opened up to a chasm in places.  Kapolei Parkway (in some places nearly new construction) is riddled with potholes and poor workmanship.  I'm not saying these are worse locations - or even more deserving of attention than what other people are putting up with.  I'm saying this is what we expect when we talk about.  This is NOT what I expect.  DO YOUR JOB.