"Bridge To Microsoft" Gets Federal Stimulus Funds

theodp writes "Among the first to benefit from the investment in roads and bridges from Obama's stimulus plan is Microsoft, which has $20B in the bank. Local planners have allotted $11M to help pay for a highway overpass to connect one part of Microsoft's wooded campus with another. Microsoft will contribute almost half of the $36.5M cost; other federal and local money will pay the rest. 'Steve Ballmer or Bill Gates could finance this out of pocket change,' griped Steve Ellis of the Taxpayers for Common Sense. 'Subsidizing an overpass to one of the richest companies in the country certainly isn't going to be the best use of our precious dollars.' Ellis called the project 'a bridge to Microsoft,' alluding to Alaska's infamous 'Bridge to Nowhere.'" A White House spokesman said this bridge project is still under review.

Comments

Re:so?

[garett_spencley]

Ok, new question. Why are people all over the country paying for something that only people in Redmond are benefiting from ? Why don't the people in Redmond pay for it using municipal funds ?

Re:This is nuts

[nurb432]

This country was built on a foundation of a Republic. Anything that works to undermine/undo that is treason.

Facts?

[nurb432]

Plenty of facts out there if you take the time to remove the blinders and look. ( and then use your brain afterwards )

Re:Keynesian Economics

[evilviper]

Keynesian economics are only a failure if you care about actual prosperity instead of duping people into letting you run the country.

No. Keynesian economics have been proven to be quite sucessful. It's only a moronic right-wing talking point that keeps trying to refute it, with NO evidence to support the claim.

Study after study has proven the benefits.

Re:so?

[OeLeWaPpErKe]

This is called government. Microsoft pays pays Barack, who gives money to microsoft. Your money. Oh and if you still want to use the whitehouse site You'll have to pay some more

Isn't government grand ? "Protection money". Even though yes, the government is generally prepared to protect you -just enough so you can keep working to pay some more to "your" next politician's bosses.

Re:so?

[db32]

Please. If they wanted to make things better they would just get Ballmer to throw the chairs with the employee still in them. No roads. No Pollution. And if we keep Ballmer busy all day maybe MS could actually work on competing on merit rather than strong arm tactics.