Washington, DC is run by incompetent morons

I sometimes wish I lived in a real city.

The District government significantly underestimated the price of a state-of-the-art stadium for the Washington Nationals and as a result has been forced to shift $55 million set aside for infrastructure improvements to cover escalating costs.

City officials had included money to repave roads and expand a Metro station near the stadium in the $535 million budget approved by the D.C. Council last year. Those funds now will go instead toward labor and building materials and to cover the cost of land for the stadium, which also is more expensive than anticipated.

This may come as a surprise, but our dear mayor promised the new stadium for the new baseball team would have no cost overruns, wouldn't break the bank, blah blah blah. We all knew there would be cost overruns and the thing would probably screw us in the end, but the mayor who doesn't care about much more than his legacy wanted a baseball team. What's a ridiculously high violent crime rate when you got baseball, right?

Well, guess what? The price of stadium has now soared and we have to divert money from roads to go the damn stadium.

The mayor is an idiot. But the city council that went along with this idiot is just as much to blame. Maybe we should pay for this out of their salaries.