Selling Our Infrastructure Out From Under Us
Foreign companies buying U.S. roads, bridges
Roads and bridges built by U.S. taxpayers are starting to be sold off, and so far foreign-owned companies are doing the buying.
About half the states now let companies build and operate roads. Many changed their laws recently to do so.
Full Article, July 15, 2006, Associated Press
How many years has this been going on, how much of our infrastructure has been sold so that consumers can get clobbered yet again while our tax dollars go to finance wars around the world for empire that benefits multinational corporations that are busily exporting our jobs? I don't recall any previous wire service articles on the selling of roads and bridges.
TLC
Roads and bridges built by U.S. taxpayers are starting to be sold off, and so far foreign-owned companies are doing the buying.
About half the states now let companies build and operate roads. Many changed their laws recently to do so.
Full Article, July 15, 2006, Associated Press
How many years has this been going on, how much of our infrastructure has been sold so that consumers can get clobbered yet again while our tax dollars go to finance wars around the world for empire that benefits multinational corporations that are busily exporting our jobs? I don't recall any previous wire service articles on the selling of roads and bridges.
TLC
posted by TLC's Place at 9:07 PM
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