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Crash2Parties

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12. When a real estate developer says, "Drain the swamp"...

Reply to EarlG (Original post)

Wed Jan 25, 2017, 11:58 PM

Jan 2017

...it's because they want to build on it.

But as the comment above me said, it was Clinton that was "crooked" and "too tied to corporations", right?

And btw, this technique of privatizing previously public works is far more crooked than this synopsis voiced; typically, local governmentt still holds all liability. A great example is the Doyle Drive project in San Francisco, for anyone curious about how this form of privatization works.

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