Bridge to nowhere is still on

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These guys have their priorities all screwed up.

Alaska's $223 Mln `Bridge to Nowhere' Envied in U.S. Northwest

By Peter Robison

Sept. 2 (Bloomberg) -- Alaska's Gravina Island is home to 50 people and more than 350 Sitka black-tailed deer. Under the U.S. highway bill passed last month, this group will get a $223 million bridge taller than the Brooklyn Bridge in New York.

The funding is among $1.04 billion that Alaska lawmakers secured for transportation projects, making the state the envy of its neighbors in the U.S. Pacific Northwest. The states of Washington and Oregon, with a combined population 15 times that of Alaska's 650,000, each received about $500 million sought by lawmakers for transportation projects in their home states under the bill signed by President George W. Bush on Aug. 10.

Alaska owes its bounty to Congressman Donald Young, a Republican who heads the U.S. House of Representatives Transportation Committee and has told voters he used his position to enhance Alaska's share. A second bridge, spanning 2 miles in Anchorage, to be called ``Don Young's Way,'' got $229 million.

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=100...Rk&refer=us

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Again, this kind of corrupt h*rseshit is what's going to cause Republicans to lose the Congress.

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Sad part is, the dims could do the same thing and it would not get reported. They all do it.

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Didn't that clown say something to the effect that if he didn't get his bridge, they'd have to take him out of Congress on a stretcher ?

I say carry him out in a pine box, for all I care. No sense in wasting US Tax $$ on $hit like that.

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"Burn in Hell..."

Sub-reference from "The People Under the Stairs."