What might have been the economic benefit to the state had the bridge been built? Oh, that's right, we don't want no stinking economic development. We want to return to being the poorest state in the union with no infrastructure. 80% of this state is inaccessible by road. We have very few ports. We can't build a gas line. We tangle ourselves in so much red tape that there's no chance that we'll ever have healthy independent economy that doesn't rely on federal handouts. The reason for this is that we refuse to build the infrastructure needed to support a home-grown economy. Oh, we pretend. We do studies. But in the end -- no, we don't want to have an actual economy that might induce our kids to remain here in Alaska. We want to remain America's frozen banana colony and let the tourists come by and snap pictures of us as we decline back into third-world status.