Jumping back in the Wayback machine, I mentioned the bridge in Hillsborough, N.H., back in mid 2010 as one of the complete wastes of money from the Stimulus. $150,000 was wasted on some stone work and railings for a historic bridge that 1. stops and 2. literally goes nowhere.
(LA Times) Mitt Romney rounded out a week focused on what he views as overspending by the federal government with a critique of President Obama’s stimulus program during a speech in front of what opponents call New Hampshire’s “bridge to nowhere.”
Romney has argued throughout the campaign that Obama’s $787-billion American Recovery and Reinvestment Act was a waste of money that did little to jump-start the economy — and he has charged that the federal government has inflated the job numbers associated with various projects.
On Friday, Romney mocked a project to preserve and enhance the historic Stone Arch bridge, work that was to include new surfacing, construction of parking area and bike trails linking the site to surrounding businesses.
“You all know the story of this bridge; this is part of the president’s stimulus plan. He went out and borrowed $787 billion and said that if we’re allowing him as Congress allowed him to borrow that kind of money, that he would hold unemployment below 8%, and it hasn’t been below 8% since,” Romney said, criticizing the amount of stimulus money that was spent for each job created.
The photo is from the LA Times story, and they have a bigger copy. Here’s a closer view of the bridge from my previous article
Some will say “it’s just $150k, what’s the big deal?” How many people could have been fed with that money? Why should the government waste taxpayer money?
