[Alberta's Child]

Does anyone wonder why there are no American companies bidding on these contracts? I wouldn't bid on one of these contracts under any circumstances, since I suspect this kind of business venture is a bad deal in the long run.

[F.J. Mitchell]

Are American companies not submitting bids, or merely being underbidded? Just wondering?

As I travel this country along our interstate highway system, I believe I have spotted what is causing these highways to become unaffordably expensive.

Those artistically sculptured sound barriers are being built along more and more miles of interstate, and I will bet the farm that these walls cost at least twice as much as the driving lanes they shroud.

God only knows who or whom with super sensitive ears and clout with the government to match,forced this expensive fiasco upon us, but they got their and we are being forced to pay. Just imagine how much more reasonable it would have been to provide each of these pampered bastards with a lifetime supply of ear plugs.

[ClaireSolt]

I think I will put my observation here. When we entice foreign companies to buy up and run old companies that allows us to leverage our own money and use it for innovative new ventures that have higher profit margins.

Once, I said that women may understand this concept better than men. We know how to live on someone else's money. Just hand me your credit card and I'll go shoppiing at the mall while you enjoy your football.

Toll collectors do mindless jobs but can sometimes be paid a lot because they are political patronage jobs. In Nj they were earning $70.000/an and Bret Schonberg wanted to just take the toll booths out.

Very soon, we are going to see a very, very tight labor market in the US. All this cheap labor talk has been a lot of hooey. Scarce labor has always driven automation in US economic history.