Buda Rabblerouser -- Part 3

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Technologist, entrepreneur, writer, idealist, activist. A lot of things in our country and world are screwed up right now (government corruption is a prime example), and we can either just watch things get worse or tackle the problems head-on. We need to choose the latter path.

Friday, March 06, 2009

Finished!



The first draft of The 'Smart Road' Scam: A Whistleblower's Odyssey in Exposing Big-Time Government Corruption, that is. The draft comprises 27 chapters, almost 120,000 words, and over 400 references to correspondence, financial disclosures, white papers, etc.

Unfortunately, the final chapter, "Sustaining the Culture of Corruption," suggests that the same games that have gone on for years will continue into the new Administration.

I wish that the book ended on a more positive note, but the factors that allowed this scam to flourish (greed and unethical behavior by high-level "public servants," practitioners' apathy, and the "you scratch my back and I'll scratch yours" modus operandi in Congress) continue unabated.

Hopefully I'm wrong, and things will get better. I believe that exposing the details of The 'Smart Road' Scam will help.

I've already shared this new expose with a number of friends and colleagues. If you'd like to read it, shoot me a note (jerrycw at attglobal.net).

Jerry