[Diddle E. Squat]

Yes, the state condemns the property and Cintra gets to make loads and loads of money off it.

After paying the state $1.2 billion for the lease, plus all construction, maintenance, and operating costs, and only if demand meets their projections (and if not they could lose a boatload of money, the risk resides with the private company.)

Sounds like fascism to me.

Actually it is textbook capitalism. Terms like 'fascism' and 'Halliburton' have lost all meaning the way you sling them around, regardless of any facts. Though not surprising for someone who has been caught regularly posting anti-Bush crap on DU.

Why do you oppose property rights? I'm just curious. Not from America, maybe? Or its ok as long as its not yours?

Nearly every road built in this country in the last 100 years has involved eminent domain. Are you saying that these roads should not have been built? What a knee-jerk moron you are. You can have the last word, I'm done wasting time with you.

[hedgetrimmer]

Actually it is textbook capitalism

What a foolish thing to say. It is textbook corporatist fascim. You want the state to pick and choose the economic winners? Of course they will be the ones who have the most cash to pay off the politicians. You are ignorant of the American Revolution and the promise of equal justice it gave humanity. Of course you say you're done, because you don't believe in private property nor the American system which REQUIRES each and every one of us to stand up for our fellow American's rights! It is our duty! It is not the purpose nor obligation of the state to take money from individual citizens through taxes and use it to enrich FOREIGN or DOMESTIC corporations.

[hedgetrimmer]

How to erase a border,our academics are hard at work on the problem. They think international transporation corridors will do the trick quite nicely.

A coherent, bi-national policy community has been active on regional transportation issues for many years. These groups spent years “softening up” the political climate for regional and transborder transportation projects; when political opportunities arose, they were ready to act. Much of the efforts of these transborder activists centered on using communication and media strategies to influence other economic and political groups (Dobell and Neufeld, 1994).

REGIONAL AND TRANSNATIONAL DISCOURSE: The Politics of Ideas and Economic Development in Cascadia