Today's Stoopid

On the collapse of the I-5 bridge in Skagit, from Addicting Info:

Now, instead of the $7 million in renovations and upgrades, the cost to replace the collapsed bridge will run $15 million and take up to a year. The collapse will cost an estimated $47 million in reduced productivity and trade. With the current average tax revenue from this total for trade and productivity in dealing with trade to Canada to be around 22%, the result is that this bridge collapse will cost the federal government $10 million in revenue for the period of repair, which when added to the $15 million pricetag means that we are looking at a total impact of $25 million. All in order to save $7 million.

"Conservatives" are anything but conservative in way too many cases.  Anybody who has ever actually worked for (much less owned) a properly functioning business of any kind who doesn't understand the fundamental Cost-Effeciency concept of Prevention vs Remedy is unworthy of any label connoting Business Savvy or Common Sense or Entrepreneurship - they've earned nothing but contempt and disrespect.  And if any of them then try to pass themselves off as clear-eyed serious-minded adult realists, they need to be mocked and ridiculed for the Stoopid Fucking Rubes they are.