Let's lease/sell all of American roads!

[WB9YZU]

Interesting article on Yahoo! Some of it is review, but it is still interesting.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060715/ap_on_re_us/highways_for_sale

Ron

[5-90]

Gawd. What idiot decided to do this? There are, after all, so many to choose from...

Why are we selling American roads to foreign consortia, anyhow?

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[Slip Kid]

http://z.about.com/d/politicalhumor/1/7/l/7/bush_chimp.jpg

[riverfever]

http://z.about.com/d/politicalhumor/1/7/l/7/bush_chimp.jpg

I giggle every time I see those. Incredibly similar.

[5-90]

Cute, but I don't think we can hold him wholly responble on his own. There are a number of states getting into this, and the states can't be directly told what to do (it's a basic principle of American law.)

I guess my main question is who started this, and where in the holy old Hell did he get the idea? Selling public projects to private concerns is already goofy enough - selling infrastructure to foreign concerns borders on treason. Perhaps they should be treated as traitors - since we're still in a "State of Emergency" from 1933, we can therefore have them shot.

Not a bad idea...

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[xjjeepthing]

I live in Northern Indiana and our a$$wipe of a governor Mitch Daniels leased the Indiana toll Road for 3.8 Billion dollars

http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060315/NEWS02/603150455

[RichP]

Cute, but I don't think we can hold him wholly responble on his own. There are a number of states getting into this, and the states can't be directly told what to do (it's a basic principle of American law.)

I guess my main question is who started this, and where in the holy old Hell did he get the idea? Selling public projects to private concerns is already goofy enough - selling infrastructure to foreign concerns borders on treason. Perhaps they should be treated as traitors - since we're still in a "State of Emergency" from 1933, we can therefore have them shot.

Not a bad idea...

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Better question is, how did such deals effect the politicans personal bank accounts, it's always a case of follow the money. One of the reaons that the war on terrorisms money transactions portion passed so easily floored me. But then again if you have a freezer in your house to store $100,000 in cash you don't need overseas banks that the US govt can't get at..

[5-90]

Better question is, how did such deals effect the politicans personal bank accounts, it's always a case of follow the money. One of the reaons that the war on terrorisms money transactions portion passed so easily floored me. But then again if you have a freezer in your house to store $100,000 in cash you don't need overseas banks that the US govt can't get at..

Yeah - makes me wonder why they still get paid so much. If you're going to get your funding from kickbacks, you don't need to collect the public dime. If you're getting paid (rather well, I might add!) on the public dime, don't collect extra-cirricular cash. How much do you need, anyhow?

Everytime I see something that's supposed to be "good for us all," I want to open their banking to public scrutiny and see who it's REALLY good for.

Term limits and pay caps, anyone?

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[MarkdaleXJ]

I could use about 1/2 mile of 4 lane blacktop for a runway...do they deliver?

[Geepfreak]

So, we(american taxpayer) pay for it(bonds,tolls,gas tax, hell any tax), then the Gov sells it, but we keep paying the tolls, then we pay for it again, by building another road using, taxes, bonds, gas tax etc, for the Gov to sell it off.... sh!t where do I sign up to own a Highway?