Alaska now has a Road to Nowhere [pictured below] going to what would have been the Bridge to Nowhere.



Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's transportation department has completed a $25 million gravel road leading to the site of a bridge that Palin, as John McCain's vice presidential candidate, now boasts that she stopped, so as to save taxpayers money. The road was built with federal tax dollars.

Ketchikan Mayor Bob Weinstein said the 3.2-mile road will be useful for road races, hunters and possibly future development. But with no bridge to serve it, that's probably about it.

Palin took the money from the Bridge to Nowhere (which actually did connect two places together) and spent it on a Road to Nowhere (which does not connect two places together).

What an anti-earmark champion! Instead of just a wasteful project, she spent the money on a wasteful and completely useless project! Just think what she'll be able to accomplish in the White House for all of us.

As Barack Obama keeps saying, "You can't make this stuff up!"

Thanks for the link, er, wait, nevermind.

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That's right.

There is no link.

That's the whole point.

It's a Road to Nowhere.

Kind of like this thread

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Government big enough to supply everything you need is big enough to take everything you have ... The course of history shows that as a government grows, liberty decreases.
-Thomas Jefferson

A statement about her political future as well.

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Links:

http://www.krqe.com/Global/story.asp?S=9050002
http://www.barcelonanews.net/story/409075
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5j...1a5cAD93AQTJ00
http://www.onelocalnews.com/howellti...lnews&id=34840
http://www.latimes.com/news/printedi...,5316609.story
http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcont....913c85cc.html

Let me know if you need more .

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~ The Didache

"Not to enable the poor to share in our goods is to steal from them and deprive them of life. The goods we possess are not ours, but theirs."
~St. John Chrysostom

Ha!

Love some of the headlines on those links!

Links:

http://www.barcelonanews.net/story/409075
Alaskan road to nowhere leads to bridge to nothing

http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5j...1a5cAD93AQTJ00
Alaska town opens 'road to nowhere'

http://www.latimes.com/news/printedi...,5316609.story
Sarah Palin said yes, thanks, to a road to nowhere in Alaska

http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcont....913c85cc.html
Nothing funny about waste

Thanks!

Every day it just keeps getting better and better with this woman!

$25 million for a 3.5 mile road? And it's only gravel? And it doesn't go anywhere? And it was built AFTER the bridge to nowhere was cancelled?

This isn't just pork, it's the whole hog!!!

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Soldiers swear to protect and defend the Constitution with their lives.

Politicians swear to protect and defend the Constitution with someone else's life.

As one engineer up in Alaska pointed out:

"$25 million for 3.2 miles???

A 3.2 mile gravel road should not cost that much money, even in Alaska. The highest figures I have ever heard in Alaska are $7 million a mile, but only with a river crossing, and only as an absolute worst case estimate. The estimates I've seen are usually between $700,000 and $6 million per mile depending on topography.

Now, often in Alaska, gravel resources are limited. That means gravel may have to be shipped in for the road. However, unless the road has significant topographic challenges, generally a road like this would cost no more than $1 to $3 million per mile. It would be interesting to see why it cost so much.

Was it inflated? They should have had at least $15 million left over to hire lobbyists to get more earmarks for useless projects."