Pork Report, December 8, 2009: Downhill Edition

I'm sorry BG people, but your screwing up a little bit here, I love you all but it wouldn't be true love if I failed to point some things out.

Make any point of principle you'd like, I understand the issue of Pork spending. However I always have and always will profoundly resent the moniker "Bridge to Nowhere". I happen to live right here in nowhere as you put it, and have lived in several 'nowheres' and I submit to you that everywhere is 'nowhere' until someone builds a damned road to it, including where the rest of you live.

The article linked to above is in regards to the Knik Arm Bridge Crossing. That project would link the two largest population centers in the state by road providing a much needed second route for commuters between the Matanuska-Susitna Valley (Palin Country hifive) and the City of Anchorage where most of us work. It's needed with or without federal dollars. We nickname the commute cutsie things like "Gauntlet of Death" not without good reasons. Go ahead and hold the federal dollars against us up here in Alaska, we'd like our land back from the Fed but they don't seem to want to let it go. Meanwhile we'll go ahead and join and chisel some other states about what sort of earmarks their delegations bring home for them.

The real bridge to nowhere was the Gravina Island Bridge spanning the Tongass Narrows between the city of Ketchikan on Revillagigedo Island, where I spent my formative years as a young lad, and Gravina Island, which is a smallish island that is ripe for development, and then there's that small little issue of the airport servicing the Ketchikan area being on Gravina island as well. Currently the only way to travel to Ketchikan at all, is by water or air, (as with many S.E. Alaska cities including our captial) … and you have to take a ferry to get to the airport. Opening up Gravina Island to Ketchikan would be a wonderful thing to do, that doesn't make it the fed (taxpayers) job to fund it however, that much I understand.

Once again, Gravina Island is certainly not "nowhere", but it's a lot closer to being nowhere than the project referenced in the article you linked to above, and to which BG wrongfully attributed the highly irritating moniker "bridge to nowhere".

Everywhere is somewhere, we need that bridge. Maybe the fed could stop monkey punching us in the back of the head every time we try to get some oil or gas out of the ground, you think you have angry tea party people? We're sitting on a century or two worth of gas and oil not even to mention precious metals and coal. We have a state with nearly ZERO taxation. All funded by resource developers who pay both the state, and the public good money for the right to extract and sell at a profit. The fed should just quit screwing that up for us before we show them what real radicals are like. We have a big stash of pitchforks and torches up here, and no end of fuel.

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gah~! <mutter mutter palmface>

Oink Oink, You didn't read what I said, quite clearly you don't care but I'll snuff out your irrelevant point anyway.

The remark about per capita federal dollars is boilerplate stuff…. we've had our nose put in it long enough. Oink Oink stumbles in here like he has some sort or revelation for us on per capita federal spending, totally ignoring my point, which was that the above linked article in the BG Pork Report references a project that has absolutely no relation to the infamous "BRIDGE TO NOWHERE". Can you wrap your head around that? Do you get it yet? CAN YOU HEAR ME NOW?…. but never mind that. See the Bush Justice Dept prosecuted our senior senator on a bunk rap and cost him his seat, and now you have the little mayor who could, Mark Begich as one of our two Senators. (He barely was able to overcome Ted Stevens despite Stevens having a federal conviction hanging over him).

So there goes the federal money, we won't be seeing that money any longer, our long time delegation is in shambles and when our rep retires we'll have an entire junior delegation.

Oink Oink, If you took the time read what I said I mentioned the fact that just because we need it does not mean the fed (taxpayers) should buy it for us. On the other hand the Federal Bureaucracy plays a large role in preventing us from generating the revenue necessary for infrastructure that we need to build without taxing our populace into a ditch.

Once again,

**The BG article is referencing the wrong project and should fact check themselves before some lib notes it
**Oink Oink can keep his federal carrots because we're not pleased requirements they bring anyway
**Our days of disproportionate revenue from the Federal Government are now over, you can stop bitching anytime

AT LEAST WE WANT TO BUILD A DAMNED ROAD AND A BRIDGE INTSTEAD OF WATCHING RODENTS F&*K.

So what state ya from Oink Oink? Let's dig up your congressional delegations earmarks and see what's what.

BG Fix your lead line in the Pork Report 12.08, just get it right, it's not a lot to ask.