"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 B in the bank. Local planners have allotted M 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 .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.
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