$4M SHOVEL READY STIMULUS PROJECT FINISHED BY VOLUNTEERS IN 8 DAYS AT NO PUBLIC COST

Here's a timely story. Polihale State Park on the Island of Kauai, Hawaii, has been closed since December when flooding damaged a small bridge at the entrance to the park (for Wikipedia link on Polihale State Park see here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polihale_State_Park).

It would have taken $4 million and 2 years for the State to repair the bridge. But the State of Hawaii, like other states, is out of money. So when the bridge could be repaired and the park re-opened was anybody's guess.

A bunch of the vendors and residents whose livelihoods depend on the tourist trade from the park got together and repaired the bridge in 8 days for minimal cost. Now that is a real "shovel ready" stimulus project. Read story and see photo slide show here:
http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/04/09/hawaii.volunteers.repair/index.html?iref=newssearch#cnnSTCText