Where will it end? 
The Charlotte Business Journal reports this afternoon that federal
stimulus money will fund improvements to the Yadkin River Bridge, (a
maintenance program that the General Assembly should have taken care of quite
some time ago instead of wasting transportation money on green ways and rail
road cars ? another story for another day)

The total price tag to fix the
bridge is in the neighborhood of $460 million but the ?recovery grant? is for
only $10 million.  Where will the
rest come from?  

It looks like they?ll just borrow it. 

The report says, ?State officials also
will be able to finance up to a third of the project?s total $461 million price
tag with some type of direct stimulus loan. Details of that loan program
weren?t immediately available.?
  

 The problem with loans is they have to be paid back.  And as Hood explains here in a recent CJ Daily Journal column,  the folks on
the hook, i.e. taxpayers, often have little to say about it.