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To: A. Pole
In your attempt to illustrate the problems with these foreign interests owning U.S. highways, you actually managed to highlight the one point (the elimination of overpaid toll collectors) that most people would actually consider a benefit of this kind of arrangement.
6 posted on 07/03/2006 5:53:39 AM PDT by Alberta's Child (Can money pay for all the days I lived awake but half asleep?)
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To: Alberta's Child

Part of the problem is the fantasy wages that people often believe. When I tell people that I used to be in the UAW they assume that I made at least $20 an hour. I didn't, I made just over $12 an hour.


14 posted on 07/03/2006 6:02:22 AM PDT by cripplecreek (I'm trying to think but nothing happens)
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To: Alberta's Child
In your attempt to illustrate the problems with these foreign interests owning U.S. highways, you actually managed to highlight the one point (the elimination of overpaid toll collectors) that most people would actually consider a benefit of this kind of arrangement.

So you think that toll collectors are overpaid if they make more than $10 per hour?

And if they get paid less and get the food stamps and subsidized housing (they will qualify if they have children), how will it benefit the economy?

Or maybe you think that toll collectors deserve to be poor and should commute to their work on bicycle or on foot?

21 posted on 07/03/2006 6:14:49 AM PDT by A. Pole (Hush Bimbo: "Low wage is good for you!")
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To: Alberta's Child
In your attempt to illustrate the problems with these foreign interests owning U.S. highways, you actually managed to highlight the one point (the elimination of overpaid toll collectors) that most people would actually consider a benefit of this kind of arrangement.

Good grief! In you anti-union zeal you fail to mention that toll collectors are about one one-hundredth of a percent of the cost of running a toll road.

24 posted on 07/03/2006 6:23:21 AM PDT by raybbr (You think it's bad now - wait till the anchor babies start to vote.)
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To: Alberta's Child

Conducting war on the wage earners of this country, are we now?


76 posted on 07/03/2006 7:22:44 AM PDT by hedgetrimmer ("I'm a millionaire thanks to the WTO and "free trade" system--Hu Jintao top 10 worst dictators)
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