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For Sale- America!!

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Anonymous

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Dwight Eisenhower- the father of the Interstate Highway System is probably rolling in his grave to see this neocon proposal to sell all his efforts to foreign interests :shock: :( :mad:

Peters: Just Sell Off Our Infrastructure

Updated July 31st, 2008
Transportation Secretary Mary Peters has come up with another ingenious plan for the broken transportation infrastructure in this country: just sell all our roads, rails and airports to the highest bidding foreigners. Don’t vet them too closely or worry about their intentions. And let them extort Amerians with outrageous tolls if they wish. The only thing that matters is that our government shed the giant liability of, you know, building and maintaing a national infrastrucutre, which is really hard to do and costs money. Click here for that story.

http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/bestoftv/2008/07/30/ldt.private.toll.roads.cnn
 

Mike

Well-known member
This has gone on for years.

An Australian company won the bid for a tollbridge just north of me across the Alabama River. I believe it was put up for bid in the late 1980's.

Anyway, they built it in about half the time alloted with no tax dollars involved.

I think they were given a 50 year lease and the state gets a cut of the revenues.

Could the state have built it and operate it as efficiently? Hard to say.
 
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