Ports and airlines and roads!! Oh My!!!
1 posted on
07/18/2006 1:03:31 PM PDT by
fr4tad
To: fr4tad
This is a good thing. What better than to sell items that foreign countries can't actually posess? Are people afraid that during a war or something the spanish might close the road and send an army to keep it closed?
2 posted on
07/18/2006 1:10:22 PM PDT by
Rodney King
(No, we can't all just get along.)
To: fr4tad
So Illinois lawmakers are examining privatizing the Illinois Tollway, New Jersey lawmakers are considering selling 49 percent of the state's two big toll roads and a gubernatorial candidate in Ohio wants to sell the turnpike. Jersey is going to give up their tolls??
3 posted on
07/18/2006 1:11:56 PM PDT by
Mo1
To: fr4tad
We might offer a tunnel in the Boston area for sale...needs work; sold "as is". Maybe France would be interested?
4 posted on
07/18/2006 1:13:57 PM PDT by
who knows what evil?
(New England...the Sodom and Gomorrah of the 21st Century, and they're proud of it!)
To: fr4tad
The timing of these announcements with the 50th anniversary of the U.S. Interstate Highway System isn't a coincidence. The plain truth is that major elements of the U.S. highway system are reaching the end of their design life, and this country simply doesn't have the financial means to rehabilitate/upgrade it through existing revenue streams.
6 posted on
07/18/2006 1:18:03 PM PDT by
Alberta's Child
(Can money pay for all the days I lived awake but half asleep?)
To: fr4tad
Fine by me. When we get mad at them and kick them out they can't take a road with them.
10 posted on
07/18/2006 1:21:57 PM PDT by
mtbopfuyn
(I think the border is kind of an artificial barrier - San Antonio councilwoman Patti Radle)
To: fr4tad
Fruits of our trade deficits.
To: fr4tad
Notice that the first line of the article says sold and the second line says lease.
To: fr4tad
This has
alrready been posted but the thread was kind of dying. Might want to check the discussion there too. Good stuff on the thread.
15 posted on
07/18/2006 2:03:32 PM PDT by
zeugma
(I reject your reality and substitute my own in its place.)
To: fr4tad
Some experts welcome the trend. Robert Poole, transportation director for the conservative think tank Reason Foundation, said private investors can raise more money than politicians to build new roads because these kind of owners are willing to raise tolls. Institute tolls and then raise tolls--on roads that we already pay taxes for.
16 posted on
07/18/2006 2:04:12 PM PDT by
calcowgirl
("Liberalism is just Communism sold by the drink." P. J. O'Rourke)
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