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Foreign Companies Buy U.S. RoadsPosted on Jul 19, 2006U.S. roads and bridges paid for by American taxpayers are being sold to companies abroad. Selling roads and bridges to private companies provides states with extra cash in the short term, but as Indiana’s House Democratic leader has argued, these deals are shortsighted taxpayer rip-offs that funnel long-term profits to foreign coffers. (h/t AmericaBlog)
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By Chris, July 19, 2006 at 12:41 pm Link to this comment
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So much like a Thanksgiving Day turkey, America is slowly being picked apart by the consumers that are the foreign countries and the majority in this country don’t seem to care unless it is the latest episode of American Idol or Desperate Housewives. It is articles like this that convince me that China and/or India will be running America in the next fifty years.
Report thisCNN’s Lou Dobbs is right when he entitled the weekly news story on his program The Great American Giveaway.