IRT Bill Miller:  Bill, Bill, Bill.  You poor soul.  You don't realize, or choose to ignore, that the estimates of Rail's costs from 10 years ago all factored in inflation and rising labor costs over the life of the project.  They came up with $5.27 billion when they initially went to the Feds for a subsidy.  That number, as required by the Feds, factored in inflation and the projected rising costs of real estate, labor, and materials over the 10-year life of the project.

They just blew it, didn't have a clue what they were getting into then and now, doubled the projected time to completion, lied to and misled us in the interim and now shrug their shoulders and want to convince us that we should just "carry on".  Obviously, they got to you already.