Microsoft To Use Stimulus To Build A Bridge

The cost of the bridge is expected to range from $25 to $36 million dollars. However, according to the story Microsoft expects to fund $11 million from the federal stimulus package.

"It's going create just under 400 jobs for 18 months constructing the bridge," says Redmond Mayor John Marchione. "It's also connecting our technical sector with our retail and commercial sectors so people can cross the freeway to shop and help traffic flow."

So the public officials defend the bridge and the organization called Taxpayers for Common Sense slams the project as vast of taxpayer money.

I kind of agree with the organization. If Microsoft and the town of Redmond lived without the bridge for years, they can do that now. We, the taxpayers pay them make their products more competencies to weather the economy and the competition not to make bridges. If the government was making the bridge that would be different. Otherwise, years later we may have the bridge and the empty campus without Microsoft.

With building a bridge you can't make your company more competitive.