Senator And House Speaker Nancy Pelosi

A new school opened in downtown L.A. with the very steep price tag of $350 million dollars. All I have to say is, if that school turns out even one dummy, time to ask for a refund.

Seriously, what an extravagant waste. For $350,000,000 dollars the government could have built 350 schools around America, in cities than needed it most, to ease overcrowding.

This is the very reason the government currently doesn't work well. America's financial problems are not going to be repaired at this rate. Too much overspending, cronyism and lollygagging.

Once the school construction project hit difficulties impeding its completion, they should have done what any smart businessperson would have under the circumstances. Stopped the project, stripped it, sold the materials off and moved on to something more feasible.

$350 million high school finally opens in LA

Sep 3, 8:40 PM (ET) - LOS ANGELES (AP) - A decade behind schedule, a $350 million downtown high school finally opened on Wednesday after years of environmental, seismic and legal troubles.

"We've been waiting a long time to get this," said Uriel Rivera, an 18-year-old senior at the Edward R. Roybal Learning Center. "A lot of people in the community were supposed to graduate from here, but they didn't. I thought it was going to be the same for me."

Rivera was among more than 2,400 students who streamed into the school on its first day - long after what had been expected to be a late 1990s debut of an education showplace to relieve sorely overcrowded classrooms.

Much of what was then called the Belmont Learning Center was already constructed before fears grew about toxic gases rising from an old oil field upon which it was built.

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