It was producing a lot more than toothpicks when I was there three years ago.
It is NOT possible to 'hike' to Ketchikan. It is on an island.
No kidding! It was a joke. Whoosh!
Governor Palin was not a bridge proponent after she visited Ketchikan.
The point of my post was to illustrate the way people fell for the media hype over the so-called "bridge to nowhere". The Ketchikan bridge is half a drop in the ocean of gubmint pork compared to the runaway spending that is going on within the halls of Congress. At least it would have been built on American soil to serve Americans! People in the media ballyhooed the theft perpetrated by Bernie Maddoff, but he's a pickpocket in comparison to the theft that Congress is committing against the American taxpayers. Just look at what a complicit media hides for them. We're talking about a few hundred million dollars here for the Ketchikan bridge. Ketchikan is on American soil and it would have served American citizens. The point isn't whether or not Palin endorsed the bridge or whether it was even needed. Whether or not it was needed could be successfully argued either way. I couldn't care less about that. As an example, where was the media when Obamalamadingdong signed away BILLIONS in loan guarantees to Brazil to develop their offshore deep sea oil resources while our own Gulf of Mexico oil field, not to mention the NPR, is in limbo? Nevermind we're a hundred trillion in debt and don't have the money to loan. Hardly a peep out of the "media" on that one. I can cite literally hundreds of similar examples of horribly wasteful gubmint spending that are orders of magnitude higher than the Ketchikan bridge, much of it going overseas to less than friendly nations, yet not a peep out of what passes for media in this country. The taxpayers are being played like a well tuned fiddle, courtesy of the US media. Get it?
Believe it or not, there are FReepers in KTN.
Glad to have you on board.
It was indeed producing then. But the mill has not operated for the past two years, and prospects are very bleak.
No kidding! It was a joke. Whoosh!
Sorry, I didn't recognize the 'joke': ("Ketchikan is land locked. The only way in is by air or sea, or hiking if you are so bold.")
The point of my post was to illustrate the way people fell for the media hype over the so-called "bridge to nowhere".
Perhaps that was you intent, but your post was a campaign to build the bridge. I replied to correct the factual errors you posted.
The point isn't whether or not Palin endorsed the bridge or whether it was even needed.
So in this case, because the cost is so relatively miniscule (only a few hundred million), go ahead and fund this bridge?
The principle is the same; the only difference is the number of zeros.
Whether or not it was needed could be successfully argued either way. I couldn't care less about that.
The 'need' versus the cost is the issue. In this case, a five hundred million dollar bridge to serve ONLY 13,000 people on a remote island during a population decline with no growth predicted for the next twenty years just doesn't strike me as responsible spending.
The taxpayers are being played like a well tuned fiddle, courtesy of the US media. Get it?
Not really. The 'US media' is decieving us?!?!!
this is a joke, kinda
Glad to have you on board.
Glad to have been here for the past eight years.