The sickening arrogance of the US Congress

[Catt03]

Lawmakers' Pet Projects (and Not Just for Roads) Find Home in Transportation Bill

The highway legislation that passed the House on Thursday night and the Senate around sundown on Friday, the most expensive public works bill in the nation's history, has almost $1 billion for special projects in Alaska.

About one-fourth of that money will be spent to build one of the biggest bridges in the United States, a mile-long, 200-foot-high span that will connect Ketchikan, a town with fewer than 8,000 people, to an island that has 50 residents and a small airport.

Another $230 million will be spent on a bridge across an inlet in Anchorage, and it will be named Don Young's Way.

There's more

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/30/politics/30pork.html
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This is just appallingly ignorant and a fuck you to the /American people. Young said when asked why so much ofthe taxpayers money for this project and he said, , "This is the time to take advantage of the position I'm in." Then he left town before he could be interviewed.

Just to note: some of the Democrats were pretty appalling also

[salib]

1. Only to be exceeded by the imperial arrogance of the President

[MuseRider]

2. More than 2 billion for Kansas

over the next 6 years. Wanna bet if they will keep the tolls on our highways? Brownback and Roberts are getting their pay back for carrying water for the maladministration.

http://cjonline.com/stories/073005/loc_highwaybill.shtml

Edit: spelling

[jurassicpork]

3. "Another $230 million will be spent...

...on a bridge across an inlet in Anchorage, and it will be named Don Young's Way."

Interesting double entendre.

JP
http://jurassicpork.blogspot.com

[ticapnews]

4. "There is money to do that"

Speaker J. Dennis Hastert said he was pleased with financing that he had arranged for bridges in his Illinois district. "I have one of the highest-growth counties in the country; I also have a river that flows through it," Mr. Hastert told reporters. "We need to have development and growth, and there is money to do that."

Really, Mr. Speaker? And where is that money coming from? Our great-great grandkids? The People's Republic? Does he even care that every dime we borrow from the Chinese strengthens their military and industrial infrastructure while weakening our own?

Sorry...rhetorical question...