Texas is the real America right?
Well it seems that the Republicans and Gov. Rick Perry are selling the streets and the roads to other nations. Soon when you drive in Texas you will not be driving on an American road but a private road owned by some other nation.
“AUSTIN -- Lawmakers expect to expand the state's authority to lease out highways to developers -- often foreign companies -- for up to 52 years, despite lingering opposition from some Texans.
A handful of bills on the subject could have huge implications for Dallas-Fort Worth, where some of the first such development deals in the U.S. were signed for projects like the $2.5 billion North Tarrant Express, which will overhaul Northeast Loop 820 and Texas 121/183 in Northeast Tarrant County. Now, Metroplex officials want to expand that project to include Interstate 35W in Fort Worth.
Developers have also been awarded the $2.7 billion project known as LBJ Express -- the construction of toll lanes under Interstate 635 in Dallas. It's a trend that worries residents who object to corporations controlling roads and keeping the tolls from them.
"Here in a session where we have a committee on state sovereignty talking about how we're going to throw off the federal government and exercise state rights, we're at the same time losing our sovereignty over public infrastructure, handing over highways to foreign contractors and handing Texas back to Spain," said Terri Hall, founder of Texans Uniting for Reform and Freedom.
Hall's group rose to prominence several years ago as Texans rejected Gov. Rick Perry's plan to build a $178 billion toll road network known as the Trans Texas Corridor..”
Read more: http://www.star-telegram.com/2011/04/22/3021037/texas-likely-to-expand-authority.html#ixzz1KMbm51uA
You know it all comes down to dollars. There is no love of the land. Plus just think of the under the table back room deals being made. That is the Republican way of doing business of course but it also the way they do the public’s business. Back room deals.
What have the Republicans done to the nation that now… We will not even own our own streets and roads. Since they are non-American and private streets and roads they will have “police” that are hired and paid by non-Americans. They may use private security people but they will work for some other nation.
Since the Bush and the Republicans broke our entire system something like this may be a good idea. Having China, Spain and France build the roads and let them collect tolls until 2061!
My problem with it is that you know for sure that there are dirty deals being made and that we not only get screwed with the deals are made but we are going to get fucked when we drive on the roads and pay the tolls.
Bend over America and take a good look at the for profit private “America.”
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