paying now cause we didn't pay before
My husband and I were watching an episode of Chronicle (Boston edition) about the bridge situation in Mass (and it's similar elsewhere in the country). The secretary of transportation sited the rule of five...if you don't pay to maintain a bridge now, you'll pay five times as much to do it later. It's always driven me totally insane that keeping up the maintenance on a building, bridge, roadway, etc. never seems to added into the cost equation when it's being built, and maintenance seems to be one of the first things cut in the budget when there's a crunch.
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