GOP values on parade

Katrina
Monday, 19 September 2005
This is a picture I took last year of downtown Ketchikan, Alaska:

That's really the downtown. You're looking at the throbbing heart of the metropolis.And here is a map of the $223 million "Bridge To Nowhere" (which will probably cost over $300 million) pet project of Alaska Republican Don Young (R-Pure Evil), overlord of the GOP transportation committee, who insists that no, the money would not be better spent helping Hurricane Katrina victims:

Notice that the bridge is, in fact, larger than the ENTIRE TOWN.Look at the giant city, above.

And imagine that 8000-resident community getting something the size of a Golden Gate bridge

. Instead of hundreds of millions of dollars going to help hurricane victims.

The ferry ride the bridge would replace, incidentally, takes exactly seven minutes.

This is the single most wasteful transportation project in American history.

No exaggeration. And the GOP values this over the well-being of American citizens. No exaggeration.

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