As someone once said, if you put the government in charge of the Sahara desert, in 5 years there will be a shortage of sand.

@Americansikkunt

5 жыл бұрын

russell5078084 That is more true, frighteningly enough, than anyone realizes. Have you ever noticed how much Silicone our buildings use? Silicone is sand, and only the finest sand from the ocean, will do. That may be the actual cause of rising sea levels

@jumperstartful

5 жыл бұрын

And pipe in thousands of gallons of water and turn it into a dry lake bed.

@mariosanchez-sj9yv

2 жыл бұрын

Prices of sand will go up $$$

@jerseyjim8365

2 жыл бұрын

I’ll be using that one for sure. 🙂

@poiu477

2 жыл бұрын

@@Americansikkunt bro you're delusional. Firstly, that hypothesis would cause sea drop, as you dug out the land under it. Secondly, you can literally watch the arctic and antarctic glaciers melt on satellite imagery. Thirdly, you're wrong about where glass comes from, it doesn't only come from the ocean. Science is real and there is no god. Capitalism is toxic and killing the planet.

For an extra $100 you could put ramps in and make it a skatepark

@tezwharton6599

5 жыл бұрын

You mean $100,000! and it still cost $100!! for the ramps!.

@ceejay5816

2 жыл бұрын

@@tezwharton6599 🤣🤣🤣 ain’t that the truth!!!

@lcfflc3887

2 жыл бұрын

@@tezwharton6599 and a side bathroom for 500,000

@ironspaghett

Жыл бұрын

A couple 300,000 dollar benches for parents to wait for their kids

@FordRangerClassics

Жыл бұрын

None of yall skate obviously. Just legally make some space and it'll fill up naturally. American processes at work here lol

so who's friend owned the concrete company?

@JeevesReturns

5 жыл бұрын

Gus Fring.

@magiciancove3234

3 жыл бұрын

I know right

All because the other building is not ADA compliant. I'm sorry but not everywhere should be forced to allow access for all. It's a historic building so be it, I would never think of going to a Castle in Europe and expect to roll a wheelchair around...LOL The original reason to build this was BS to begin with.

@RandomRandomnessKCMO

2 жыл бұрын

Yep. ADA can’t possibly be facilitated everywhere…. It’s bs

@Riverrockphotos

2 жыл бұрын

So you are perfectly fine with dicrimination got it.

I've watched a few of Larry's exposes and it's really depressing. I live the other side of the planet and we have the exact same corruption and incompetence as you have there and the bastards responsible keep their jobs and retire with their generous pensions paid for by the taxpayers. It makes me sick. No care, no responsibility and no repercussions yet if I don't cut my lawn correctly I am slammed with a fine and there is no right of appeal. I wish you well people of NM and hope things improve.

@Quagigitymire

2 жыл бұрын

Odd how modern governments always seem to fail the individual while overwhelmingly supporting businesses and corporations, but greed in all forms corrupts nearly all people.

@KristinaTurnerUS

2 жыл бұрын

And New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson covered up Jeffrey Epstein with Scientologists and Balfour Beatty and retaliated against victims and kept his property under the control of Scientologists and rewarded perpetrators.

@Riverrockphotos

2 жыл бұрын

No joke bastards. I hate city code enforcment. We had a guy here in utah where his neighbor complained abou this yard. Well that guy burnt the complainers house down and shot and killed the code enforcment officer.

@robertcolpitts4534

Жыл бұрын

Typical for many States here in the US but especially in New Mexico. Someone has an idea and some político says "yeah, let's fund that!". Money is appropriated without a written proposal, plans or preliminary construction bids or a schedule in place. But New Mexico is unique in its boondoggles and SNAFUs at the State and local levels. Most of the State's revenue comes from oil and gas royalties and taxes. If commodity prices fall, so do revenues. Since the State doesn't build a "rainy-day fund" (nor would I trust it to), hard times come, "the well" runs dry, and there's no revenue. Projects that are started die. New Mexico is a beautiful State; I lived there 28 years and love the place; it's home for us. However, this sort of waste, stupidity and corruption is deeply embedded in its government and will never go away.

@ronv6637

Ай бұрын

New Mexico, amateurs Illinois could have made that a 20-25 million $boondoggle with at least a half dozen ghost payrollers,cost overrun contracts for a "friend" and 3-4 unions fighting over it. You got a roughed in slab and bad plans for $400,000, sounds like a good price for commercial development

There should be a new law for all contracted work where payment is put into escrow until the work is competed. This would protect the contractors from not getting paid and protect the buyer from the contractors running off with the money before the work is completed.

@chadachwilliam5515

Жыл бұрын

But, but, but, then how would they be able to skim?

@RoadTripA1A

Жыл бұрын

Good point! Another great reason to set it up this way.

@bernardb8045

Жыл бұрын

Oh snap, sounds like something the unions do to protect their employees🤔🤔

@robertcolpitts4534

Жыл бұрын

But they didn't use contractors. They used City maintenance works. And it wasn't even in Albuquerque in the first place! Corrales is a villiage north of Albuquerque where the city has no authority to do ANYTHING! ¡Gentes sin avergüenza!

@robthomas5488

Ай бұрын

That is the way it IS supposed to work

You can drive to any Home Depot in Texas and find some laborers and supplies to pour the same slab for 30 bucks, and never leave the store

@josephfuller6229

2 жыл бұрын

I have a infant niece that is smarter then you 30 dollars will get you maybe 10x10 by 4 inches deep

@ronv6637

Ай бұрын

I'll give you the $30- you give me a roughed in 6,000sq/ft 8 in commercial slab,ok? Should only cost about $400k

Well... They do say... If you want to be a professional crook, don't rob banks, take office in the public sector. Great report team.

A government project does not go as planned? What else is new?

@ROGER2095

6 жыл бұрын

Planned? What plan?

They lied. They said their was no contract and it was done by maintenance worker. Then why are their plumbing and electrical pipes sticking up. Maintenance workers do plumbing and electric?

@safeplace8564

5 жыл бұрын

I'm a year late to this comment but an average Joe can follow plans and do the rough in/slab work it's not tough. Whether it's legal for the average Joe to do the job or not is another story.

@jimmymcjimface2607

Жыл бұрын

@@safeplace8564 I'm three years late but I promise you maintenance workers didn't do all that.

If you want it to take way too long and go over budget leave it to government to get it done

@BigTex-on4rl

6 жыл бұрын

bazooka Joe i

@jeffwuds7870

6 жыл бұрын

bazooka Joe or modcon. Modcon, god.

@claudiaclaudia936

6 жыл бұрын

bazooka Joe if u want it done hella fast and for way less $ call The Mexicans 😎🖒

@TheOrangeRoad

6 жыл бұрын

Yet for some reason, people still vote for MORE government control and intervention. "Maybe they'll get it right this time!"

@Jaya365

5 жыл бұрын

Amen

they raised and collected property taxes for this, where did all the money go.

@rizon72

6 жыл бұрын

Line someone's else's pockets.

@SM77785

4 жыл бұрын

In the Mayor's back pocket.

that's the problem, you get people who don't know a damn thing about contracting, business, budgeting, or meeting deadlines but yet they're in charge of all these projects and we're the ones who have to pay the burden

@RespectMyAuthoritaah

2 жыл бұрын

Stop voting in demoRats. That is part of the problem right there. Tax and spend has always been the demoRat motto.

@luvlabso130

2 жыл бұрын

We need non politicians Businessmen an women Like Trump

"Any job done under budget, and completed on time. Wasn't worth doing". The architect of the great pyramid

@brandonc5376

6 жыл бұрын

BADD1ONE I mean if we have slave labor like they did we could get just about anything done. allot of the great old government buildings you see we're done by slave labor. slavery's terrible, but I'll be damned if shit don't get done when you treat people like pack mules.

@self-promoterremover5611

2 жыл бұрын

@@brandonc5376 slaves didn’t build the pyramids

@ironspaghett

Жыл бұрын

@@self-promoterremover5611 Nope, it was the work of the civilization itself, not it's slaves The equivalent of peasants and yeoman built the pyramids

It's a brilliant visitor centre as it stands. For the museum of bloated government.

@chriscook2036

6 жыл бұрын

I agree totally. The Mafia got busted for doing just what they do.

@TDog14126

6 жыл бұрын

DeShawn 'Dawg' BNBG stupid pic

@jed-henrywitkowski6470

5 жыл бұрын

Remember boys and girls, it's ok as long as the government does it!

@chriscook2036

5 жыл бұрын

jed-henry. You are refering to the swamp are you? In my opinion, it is a higher level mafia.

The City takes the term "Concrete Plans" to a whole new level

a visitor center directly next to a cemetery, great idea

Follow the money, you will probably find most of it in some politician and/or politician's crony"s pockets.

Our government is ridiculously wasteful and unorganized. I'm shocked that so many people still pay taxes.

@777VOID-1

11 ай бұрын

U are paying taxes to the real land lords. Wake up from your dream

So that’s how the ancient megaliths got there

What's wrong with the reporter's nose? Looks like he joined fight club and talked about it.

@murraymachado401

6 жыл бұрын

Should have spent that money building her a new nose for starters, JeeeZus! It's fair to say she took a knuckle sandwich from her ex, Bap! Bap! Ba-bap!

*_RETURN THE SLAAAAAB._*

@tezwharton6599

5 жыл бұрын

That cost another $400 thousand just for planing!.

You want to make sure a system is extremely inefficient and broken? Let the government do it. FUCK big government, they are only there for their OWN interests, not the TAX PAYERS! Fight for small government. I still remember a city government planned to spend $50,000 - $100,000 for a couple of steps in a park. A local came and built the steps for just $100

@namm0x326

6 жыл бұрын

That was Toronto :)

@jnichols3

6 жыл бұрын

Same thing in Shreveport. About 20 years ago someone in the government decided some old shotgun shacks near downtown needed to be renovated because they were a century old. They were basically 2 room, 700 square feet each pier and beam construction. They were in poor shape and owned by people who rented them out. The neighborhood was a ghetto (still is). Anyway the feds jumped in with money and I forget the numbers, but when you took the programs cost and divided it by the number of houses, it came out to be around $120,000 each. What they did was put in new wiring and paint the old houses ugly pastel green, blue, and pink. That was the last coat of paint those houses ever got. Within 10 years most of them where gone. Some where tore down. Some where sold and are probably hunting cabins in the woods somewhere. 20 years later the very, very few that remain are rotting with the 20 year old paint on them. The only people that came out ahead were the landlords who do not actually live in them. This why I cringe when I hear someone wants the government (at any level) to get involved in community revitalization (sp?). If community is a slum or ghetto, the problems is usually the people who own the buildings and those that live in them. Throwing millions of dollars into a neighborhood like that is just putting new stuff there to be destroyed. DRAIN THE SWAMP.

@torgotorgenson3177

6 жыл бұрын

this was local, small, government.

@ghostofreagan3181

6 жыл бұрын

He built them for $100 and it took him one day, not 18 months.

@torgotorgenson3177

6 жыл бұрын

the interstate highway program was a government success, as well as national defense. government isn't inherently inept, it's the people involved. massive failure happens in private industry, as well.

400k for plans and concrete? Really?

@maverick2377

6 жыл бұрын

Government efficiency.

@jeffc5974

6 жыл бұрын

And conduit, and piping, and mobilization, and increased expenses for starting construction without a competitive bid...

@Fiberglasser03

6 жыл бұрын

Plans and drawings are very expensive, as well as concrete, rebar, plumbing, etc. 400k is high but not crazy especially if it was built with government workers who are union and don't know what they are doing in the first place. lol

@Bigrignohio

6 жыл бұрын

For a complete set of phased Architectural, structural, plumbing, mechanical and electrical drawings (I saw the construction documents they showed were for core and shell, only the first phase)? Including MANY coordination meetings with the clients (remember, government is the client)? Verifying code compliance with local, state and federal codes? Compliance with ASHRAE, energy and the NEC codes? Environmental impact studies were also probably required. Was this a state-mandated LEED project? More paperwork, more hours to expense. THEN they paid their own workers (at inflated government wages) to pour the concrete rather than bid it out. Wonder why? People DO NOT understand what is required tor a complete set of construction documents. Figure 10-15% of the TOTAL construction costs just for the PME documents alone.

@JustinCrediblename

6 жыл бұрын

+Bigrignohio I dunno man. I drew most of my own plans in 2015 for Sacramento County. Did most of the work, too. Hired out the slab to my neighbor. 8 bucks a square foot. 8" thick with rebar grid but only very basic foundation design. I was the guy dealing with the various building departments. Planning, easements, fire, hiring foundation engineer for engineering, ECD for the septic system, building dept, all of the little organizations who wanted money and needed their box checked off of the plans prior to finalizing... It's inflated labor costs. and it IS objectionable. absurd.

2:40 What is this? A visitor center for ants?

Great reporting.

What are they gonna do with the property? Is it going up for auction?

Who thinks "we need a visitor center for a museum" isn't that kinda what a museum is/could be?

This is almost as good as North Carolina's TAX FUNDED teapot museum in which everything is private and it is NOT open to the public...in fact, it's only open by appointment and invitation only.

@MH-yj4qq

6 жыл бұрын

Then it’s not a museum. Museums have very specific guidelines to be called a museum and are under the purview of the state’s attorney general.

@tezwharton6599

5 жыл бұрын

Or in anybody finds out! as like done here hoping nobody notice!.

My city supposedly spends almost 40% of the budget on roads but all I hear is people complaining about bad roads and all I see is terrible roads that cause damage to vehicles

@dwoolaver1549

6 жыл бұрын

Rc Buddy your not the only place that's dealing with roads so bad there destroying our vehicles.

@servicetrucker5564

2 жыл бұрын

What ticks me off is all the money I spend for vehicle registration and most of it goes to public schools. Then what’s left goes to fix roads in different parts of the state while the ones here are crumbling

I think there was a similar situation in Arizona with the government attempting to build a visitor center. There have been worse situations with government leaders having trouble with keeping the so-called ball balanced. Thank you for your helpful and informative videos!

Spiderman pointing to other Spiderman.😂😂😂

astonishing that politicians can freely wast taxpayers money without repercussion

"City construction crew" are the important words.

What the hell is up with New Mexico? Just last night I saw a news program where they wasted like 8 million on a brand new municipal center then it was mismanaged and condemned and never opened. That state has some serious contractor corruption with city officials.

a million fucking dollars for a lousy 6,000 sq ft??? not even a basement...

We the taxpayers are never asked for input about the worthiness of such projects nor is it presented on a ballot for approval or disapproval. And once more no one is held accountable.

I lol’d when Larry couldn’t pronounce acquisition lmao

Return the slab…Return the slab or suffer my curse.

if they put the wheelchair into a vehicle compactor machine, it would definitely fit into the door.

It's sad that local government entities are supposed to be responsible and aren't. But it's easy to make excuses over misspending funding but not have people that one can point fingers at to be held accountable for their inaction/action over a project that would've brought tourism $$$$ to the area. Unconscionable........

Good for skateboarding.

0:30 Close your eyes and hear Steve Martin.

Actually that seems about right, there is more than just a slab sitting there there's all the underground utilities. You have to remember if you have a 16 million state project then it only turns out to be a few million dollars worth of actual construction work red tape eats the rest And it says the new mayor is the one that shut it down so it's basically the new mayor's fault

As a building inspector and one pursuing more in that career....that slab isn't a 1 million dollar job. Doesn't even appear to be post tension. (Not that it would make a HUGE difference). But it's clearly just a gouge by construction companies, engineering companies, probably city inspectors and maybe even the engineers. I would doubt the architect is to blame. To put in perspective. A crew of 15-20 experienced guys, an inspector/materials tester and a few concrete truck drivers. This is like 3 days work.

@Foxwolfred

2 жыл бұрын

It’s just a metaphor they aren’t saying just the slab itself is a million dollars they literally say how much it is in the video

As soon as Gary Johnson left the whole state went to shit again. I no longer live in the state but visit my family there once or twice a year and this last time I was disgusted at the park I usually take my kids too. Normally it is well groomed and everything has been well kept, this time there were ant hills everywhere, grass was long enough to be cited for like the city would do to a resident, no one cleaning up their dog poop, and the equipment was destroyed, not to mention the crime has almost tripled due to a lack of law enforcement and crooked cops. Get it together New Mexico or Trumps gonna wall you in, just saying.

400k for blueprints? And a shot slab. So 4K at most for blueprints, and another 22k for slab. Looks like to me a scam

Is this place for SALE? Who owns it? That slab would make a great landing place for drones and UFOs. If the old house goes with it, even better. The big problem was using city workers instead of a private contractor that would kick back money to the Legislature. The City got in the way of using public money for private benefit. No wonder the project was cancelled.

A slab.... Literally reporting a slab.... what are you, Inside Edition?

So sad that all that money gone to waste.... I love Larry Barker.

Built it next to a grave yard, who’s bright idea was that?

Turn it into a skatepark

@tezwharton6599

5 жыл бұрын

It would cost another $400 thousand just for planing!. Nobody lives thier in middle off no where not get many kids thier!.

Thanks for the new skate spot.

My town is in Central Virginia and the Virginia legislature has handed no funding over to my town, my town has built over 800 million dollars in Overpasses and Roads but is yet to build anything actually to worth. The next project a YMCA, like that means property value is gonna slope.

Hopefully you do a follow-up on this curious to see who all got caught,

If there's no museum how was there a museum director to request money?

I think there waiting for the concrete slab to firm up....things take time.... I love the cemetery right next 2 it...."PEOPLE are just dying 2 get in there!!!!!! "

That woman is really good at her government speak. She could give classes in it

Great logic. I don't have enough energy to swim across this lake but I'm gonna start swimming anyways.

$ 400,000 and they used city workers to save. Looks like someone got caught with their hand in the cookie jar to me. But that isn't half as bad as the law suits the police department brings you can add another 3 to 4 million of tax payers money to that.

“Not that I’m aware of” 🤣

Jesse. We need to cook...

@floridagirl2569

6 жыл бұрын

Celtic Jay ❤

I would guess that the slab cost 50 thousand dollars and someone pocketed 900,50 thousand dollars!!

@777VOID-1

11 ай бұрын

Didn't u hear correctly, it took them 400,000 to do design land, plumbing, electrical, and slab and rest of it was not used but went back, because knowing that it will not be enough to complete it.. their fault was starting something that they knew wasn't enough money to finish it with.

Every county and state in the united states needs a Larry exposing taxpayer money being wasted

5 years later…. Any updates or progress??

Has anyone really looked at the actual site of this boone doggle? Not that I find being between a cemetary and a residental neighborhood wrong but is the slab actually sitting in a dry wash/ dry creek bed subject to flash flooding. Besides the archectural plans, the plumbing, electrical, HVAC, etc. where was the parking lot and sidewalks going to be placed. And how did they manage to get the concrete trucks to the slab forms without some type of improved road that could handle the weight? So how close to the adobe dewelling (walking distance?) is the slab?

That's what politicians do best: Take your money, waste some of it, and put the rest in their pockets, then lie about it.

City of Albuquerque poured the pad with City Maintenance workers AFTER the Senate had clawed back the money. Would be nice if the City Attorney had an answer for "Who's going to jail for this?"

You need Walter White and THECAPN to run that town.

This is the most successful project the government ever had

Do you know every single one of those politicians pocket of that

3:14 "was dead" showing the slab next to a cemetery. Nice touch. 1:26 Senator John Arthur Smith is from Deming - so he knows the value of a dollar.

Federal state and local government workers who have anything to do with tax dollar wasteful spending need to be held accountable for these blunders "AND" need to be financially on the hook to pay back taxpayer dollars from their personal finances. We the people need to be able to confiscate bank accounts cars boats houses cottages property businesses aircraft motorhomes etc......of federal state and local government workers to pay back taxpayers.

Everyone is talking about politics but when I hear million dollar slab I think of that one episode of courage the cowardly dog

*You should try to get rid of the gang violence and meth, that would give your state a boost!*

how much did he get out of it.

Why didn't they build a large "pull barn" like structure around the entire adobe building? For a similar example look up Colorado Springs Ghost town.

At 5:57 ~ Located right next to a goddamn cemetery, and, not a single mention of it being built right next to the place that everyone's dying to get in to!!!

It's easy to waste money when you are an arrogant bureaucrat and it's not your money, money that you worked hard for. Money you basically took by force out of peoples pocket. As you told them it was for their own good. This happens all over America.

You should investigate how many houses he has and cars

A fricking museum? A museum? Out in the middle of nowhere? Who the Fuck is gonna go visit a damn museum? Nobody! Thats who.

Idk why I find this so funny

@Gentledegenerate

10 ай бұрын

Back for a good laugh😂

It's the kickbacks that screw up these projects

If they just put a few more bucks in it they could have a great drag strip for radio controlled cars !

"Not that I remember" equals plausible deniability.

I live in Illinois we have million dollar slabs everywhere.. what's the big deal??

Why not renovate the old site, expand parking and add a new service road and traffic light just for it, oh and signage for miles around. And some restaurants and a playground. That would have cost the same or less and been done in a 6 months.

Skate spot ?

Its a beautiful Slab

So garnish pensions of those responsible for this and if they have died put a lean on pension if spouse still alive.

Third party contractor? That’s why we have city workers!

So what happened to the slab?

400k for a concrete slab that is ignorant AF

They really should return the slab... Get their money back.

My town has a million dollar bridge to nowhere! They said they had to build it or lose the federal money!

Everyone going to ignore that Dana Feldman looks like Mrs Skelator.

@Automedon2

6 жыл бұрын

it was well noted

Im gonna start saying im a weed choked concrete slab when I'm stoned

@LouIsFatAndSassy

2 жыл бұрын

Oh that’s what they were saying over and over…weed choked!

That's a nice slab

"Fleecing OUR money away"? But it was not YOUR money. It was money for one intended purpose which you failed to comply with.

New Mexico. . . Any questions.