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The town also has an empty port thanks to $29 million of federal stimulus funds.
Consider the source.
First, it is a $64 million airport. Second, the city of Akutan has a population of 1,027 as of the 2010 Census. Third, the airport is 6 miles away on another island. Fourth, the $13 million spent on the hovercraft is actually cheaper than it would cost to build another dock at the airport and the cost of a ferry.
Building anything in Alaska is not cheap. A one-room school house in Barrow Alaska cost $3+ million because absolutely everything has to barged or flown in.
Kinda like spending 300+million of taxpayer money on Mid-America airport right outside St. Louis... now there was a true waste...
Not quite. There are roads outside of St. Louis. Here is what one Alaskan has to do to visit a friend on Thanksgiving:
"I decided to visit friends in Thorne Bay on POW for Thanksgiving - about 50 miles west of here - but you can't get there from here. First a 6-hour ferry ride south to Ketchikan $108, then a 6-hour ferry ride west to POW $242, then a 2-hour drive on dirt roads at $4.89 a gallon for gas - and I'm finally in Thorne Bay."
Alaska does not have the roads or infrastructure the lower-48 State has.
First, it is a $64 million airport. Second, the city of Akutan has a population of 1,027 as of the 2010 Census. Third, the airport is 6 miles away on another island. Fourth, the $13 million spent on the hovercraft is actually cheaper than it would cost to build another dock at the airport and the cost of a ferry.
Building anything in Alaska is not cheap. A one-room school house in Barrow Alaska cost $3+ million because absolutely everything has to barged or flown in.
now they don't even get their mail, which included medications!
and it looks like a lot of that population is seasonal.
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For the 1,000 Trident workers getting ready to wrap up the season and go home, that means either arranging a charter flight from Akun or catching a ride on a boat 35 miles to Dutch Harbor.
now they don't even get their mail, which included medications!
and it looks like a lot of that population is seasonal.
The Anchorage Daily News is owned by a company based in San Francisco and has not represented anything truthful about Alaska since the 1990s. The airport cost $64 million, the ferry cost an additional $13 million. The airport did not cost $75.5 million.
As far as the population of Akutan, the Bureau of the Census is a far more credible source. The seasonal workers are there from May through September, then they are gone until next year.
This airport was also funded by Obama's Stimulus in 2009, one of his "shovel ready projects."
The Anchorage Daily News is owned by a company based in San Francisco and has not represented anything truthful about Alaska since the 1990s. The airport cost $64 million, the ferry cost an additional $13 million. The airport did not cost $75.5 million.
As far as the population of Akutan, the Bureau of the Census is a far more credible source. The seasonal workers are there from May through September, then they are gone until next year.
This airport was also funded by Obama's Stimulus in 2009, one of his "shovel ready projects."
Wasn't it the states that decided what projects were "shovel ready" to receive funding?
Gov. Palin rejected money that would have gone to schools and social services, she accepted the bulk of the stimulus money for construction projects, like the airport.
The town also has an empty port thanks to $29 million of federal stimulus funds.
But there were millions of jobs created by Obama's stimulus!!!! What difference does it make if it's in Alaska or New Jersey?
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