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<blockquote data-quote="tieguy" data-source="post: 653451" data-attributes="member: 1912">The engineering and planning for the golden gate bridge started around 1916 and was completed in 1937. At the time someone could have labeled such a project as a bridge to nowhere. Did the need for a bridge to one part of san francisco justify such a huge expense. Any good public official knows the creation of bridges and highways in their state leads to further develepment and an increase of tax paying citizens. It pays for itself. &nbsp;Nowhere becomes somewhere by building the bridge.&nbsp;I&#039;m more comfortable with the creation of infrastructure that promotes development then I am with building extra unneeded prisons or increasing the salaries of so many government workers when the rest of the country is getting their pay cut. As revealed in USA today:&nbsp;<a href="http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2009-12-10-federal-pay-salaries_N.htm" target="_blank">http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2009-12-10-federal-pay-salaries_N.htm</a>&nbsp;For those who may not realize that there is a congress note that the article shows a president submitting and a congress approving the spending. </blockquote>

[QUOTE="tieguy, post: 653451, member: 1912"] [COLOR=blue]The engineering and planning for the golden gate bridge started around 1916 and was completed in 1937. At the time someone could have labeled such a project as a bridge to nowhere. Did the need for a bridge to one part of san francisco justify such a huge expense. Any good public official knows the creation of bridges and highways in their state leads to further develepment and an increase of tax paying citizens. It pays for itself. [/COLOR] [COLOR=#0000ff][/COLOR] [COLOR=#0000ff]Nowhere becomes somewhere by building the bridge.[/COLOR] [COLOR=#0000ff]I'm more comfortable with the creation of infrastructure that promotes development then I am with building extra unneeded prisons or increasing the salaries of so many government workers when the rest of the country is getting their pay cut. As revealed in USA today:[/COLOR] [URL]http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2009-12-10-federal-pay-salaries_N.htm[/URL] [COLOR=blue]For those who may not realize that there is a congress note that the article shows a president submitting and a congress approving the spending. [/COLOR] [/QUOTE]

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