When states and the fed grab ever more revenue from folk, yet turn to foreign entities so they can lease basic infrastructure, because they can’t afford it!?!?!? WTF!?!?!?

Strapped States Try New Route, Lease Toll Roads to Foreign Firms

By Amy Goldstein
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, June 14, 2006; Page A01

ELKHART, Ind. -- Its official state motto is "the crossroads of America." Yet Indiana is about to turn over its entire toll road for the next 75 years to two foreign companies, making it more expensive to drive.

The decision to hand the Indiana Toll Road to an Australian and Spanish team for $3.8 billion at the end of this month has blown up into one of the biggest brawls here in a generation. It has unsettled the state's politics in the months before the November elections, pitting a governor who was President Bush's first budget director against the people of northern Indiana, which the highway passes through.


http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/06/09/AR2006060901775.html

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You wait and see. These politicians are crazy like a fox! Once we've sold the rights to our highways to these foreign companies, we won't be able to afford the gas to drive our cars anymore. Then the companies will go bust trying to operate roads with no toll income. Ah-ha!!!

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Very sad.

It's like the fool who sells his fishing pole to buy a fish sandwich. -- Sad indeed.

But this is the new government we have.

So... we expect increased shipping charges from Tire Rack?

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It makes sense if you cannot fish for beans in the first place and have no ability to learn.

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No, that is called natural selection. S/He becomes fertilizer.

I've said it before:

"Give a man a fish and you will feed him for a day.

Teach him to fish and he will sit in a boat and drink beer all day."

(Now, where did I put those oars.....)

Yes but I still don't see a problem of selling it off. Last a few days more anyways.

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99 E300 Turbodiesel
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04 Tailgator 21 ft Toy Hauler
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so we don't know how, and can't learn how; or can't learn how before it s too late.
mark

So if they sell the roads to a company based in another country, can they still enforce traffic laws on said roads?

Thats how you challange this, if they don't own the roads how can they ticket you for speeding on them?

Is it their a law somewhere that says you have to have an IQ of 2 and no spine to be in office or what?

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