The woman who was crushed in that tunnel.... paid her taxes

[HysteryDiagnosis]

to make sure America's infrastructure was safe.... she didn't get what she paid for.

Now I hear there are other tunnels being shut down due to problems with bolts and so forth. Who needs terrorists when the morons in control are blowing hundreds of billions of dollars to destruct Iraq while our bridges, roads and so forth rot under our feet?? I'm truly unimpressed.

[survivor999]

1. Bechtel did as good a job

at home as it did in Iraq. Without them the terrorists would have won.

[babylonsister]

2. I'm not impressed either, and this impresses me even less:

Roads and bridges leased to or owned by foreign companies, followed by a list of proposed projects
Associated Press

WASHINGTON - Roads and bridges leased to or owned by foreign companies, followed by a list of proposed projects.

ALABAMA: On Dec. 30, 2005, a subsidiary of Australia-based Macquarie Infrastructure Group bought the Foley Beach Expressway bridge for $95 million between Orange Beach and Baldwin County mainland.

CALIFORNIA: In November 2003, construction began on Route 125, a four-lane, 9.5-mile toll road in eastern San Diego. California Transportation Ventures, primarily owned by Macquarie, paid $400 million for a 35-year lease. The road, which is expected to open in the fall, will serve international truck traffic crossing the California-Mexico border at Otay Mesa.

ILLINOIS: On Jan. 25, 2005, the city of Chicago leased the 7.8-mile Chicago Skyway to the Australian-Spanish consortium Macquarie-Cintra for 99 years in exchange for $1.83 billion. The Skyway links I-90 from the Toll Road at the Illinois-Indiana state line to the Dan Ryan Expressway in the Loop.

INDIANA: On June 29, a deal closed for Macquarie-Cintra to enter into a 75-year lease for the 157-mile Indiana Toll Road in exchange for $3.85 billion.

MICHIGAN: In January 2001, Macquarie North American Infrastructure Inc., a subsidiary of Macquarie's Global Infrastructure Fund, bought the Detroit & Canada Tunnel Corp., which ran the U.S. side of the Detroit-Windsor Tunnel connecting Detroit with Windsor, Canada.

The list goes on, as does the article...

http://www.sanluisobispo.com/mld/sanluisobispo/news/politics/15047427.htm

[MisoWeaver]

3. Where did all those billions go?

[Nikki Stone 1]

4. Someone's pocket?

:shrug:

[Kat45]

5. Many pockets, I believe.

I live in the Boston area, and this has been a huge mess since it started.

[Nikki Stone 1]

7. The unmitigated corporate greed and lack of government teeth

contributes to this. :(

[blonndee]

6. I swear, this nation is reminding me of Atlas Shrugged,

as shitty as that novel was. Ironic, huh?