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Writeroflight
that is OK thanks for reading.
posted by
scoop
on September 3, 2005 at 8:06 AM
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Scoop, my apologies, I missed that post . . .
. . . but I agree with you completely. You answered your own question about why it happened; he gave his constituents a quarter billion worth of goodies. Parts of the transportation spending bill, such as funding for replacement of an especially dangerous section of highway west of here, are perfectly legitimate, but certainly not all of it. I wonder if there is a way for Congress to unauthorize, as it were, nonsense like the Alaska bridge now that a far more critical and genuine need has arisen.
posted by
WriterofLight
on September 2, 2005 at 8:22 PM
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WriterofLight and Twodog how about this?
Remember when I wrote about this in my pork transportation post?
"In Alaska there is one project that has been labeled the "bridge to nowhere" in Ketchikan. The Houston Chronicle describes it this way, "Rising 200 feet above water and almost as long as the Golden Gate on San Francisco Bay, the bridge will link this tourist-oriented town at the southern tip of the state to an island with about 50 inhabitants and an airport with fewer than 10 flights a day". Rep. Don Young, R-Alaska, brought home nearly $1 billion for pork projects. Matter of fact one $250 million project will be for a bridge in Anchorage to be named Don Young's Way.
Oh yeah I forgot to tell you, Young is also the chairman of the House Transportation Committee.
And that "bridge to nowhere" will cost $250 million to connect the town of Ketchikan (pop. 14,000) to Gravina Island (pop. 50)"
Explain this waste to me and why did it happen?
And to think they cut the money for the levees. Shake those Bush pom poms.
posted by
scoop
on September 2, 2005 at 9:17 AM
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WriterofLight
Opps!! More common sense. How politicaly incorrect can you get? Just like the current energy problem, the lessions learned in the seventies, a need to develope domestic energy sources, were pushed aside or forgotten altogether, the current administration is blamed for half a century of neglect.
posted by
twodog
on September 2, 2005 at 7:24 AM
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