Here it goes, people are starting to criticize bridges to nowhere in the Stimulus package. This one is in Tuscumbia, Missouri, 3 hours from St. Louis. The bridge is crossing the Osage River and is in a very sorry state. Even as a Kansan, I think it is a sorry state of the nation when people are criticizing a project like this, that even when considering the 218 lives that it’s being used for, is $8.6 million still too high a price tag to pay for the common safety of other people (which by the way live and breath like the rest of us)?
The bridge had to be closed to large trucks in 2007 because the bridge is in such poor state and is effectively crumbling as drivers cautiously pass over it. Yeah, it might not employ a lot of people, but has it occurred to anyone that these 218 people might value their lives?
Here’s your Bridge to Nowhere of the Stimulus Package - note the crumbling cement falling off the bridge, clear evidence of the work of Liberal Stimulus Boogeymen and their attempts to steal your MONEY! Looks like I need to start keeping my money in my mattress!
Please, people. Criticizing a project this critical as being a waste of money is low. What would the families of the 13 who died in the Minneapolis bridge collapse in 2007 say about neglecting a bridge in such a poor condition?
Those Liberal Stimulus Boogeymen at work again in 2007! The Stimulus Package is a plot!! NOOO!
Or here’s the other option: let’s just let the bridge fall apart completely. Yeah, that sounds like a good idea. The next closest bridge is upstream near Lake of the Ozarks and for residents of Tuscumbia or its nearest neighbor on the other side of the river, the town of Capps, Missouri, it would take 2 hours to reach each other over the 20 minute drive it takes now with the bridge in place? Yep, that makes sense to me! The financial benefits of letting a bridge crumble and neighboring towns being 2 hours away from each other vs. 20 minutes makes a ton of sense. So much sense, maybe we should just scrap the project and blow the bridge up and into the river to get it over with? Imagine all the revenue that would generate for the oil companies that would benefit from people driving two hours out of their way because a bridge falls into the river.
THAT’S what I call stimulation, give money to the oil companies! They’re struggling sooo much right now.
I’m going to go throw up now.
Here’s the story if you want to read it. It’s the most unbiased version of it I could find.