Rudy Giuliani Benefits

There is so much I would like to say.. first off that I know that the post from yesterday or early this morning is very long. But I ask you to please read it. You will find the Democrat candidates are spouting the same things they were back in 1964. Only stronger now and they have more support for their ideas.

Next I would ask you to go to:
http://www.augustreview.com/news_commentary/north_american_union/foreign_privatization_of__u.s._highways_2007052160/

What is this about you may ask... well it is about our states selling/leasing off our infrastructure.. Remember the bridge falling down in St. Louis.. I don't know if that was one of them or not, but it could happen to other bridges.

* The Chicago Skyway, for example, brought $1.83 billion from a Spanish-Australian partnership.

* The 157-mile Indiana tollway, brought $3.85 billion from the same partnership.

* And the state of Texas has recently concluded a deal to sell a Trans-Texas Corridor for $7.2 billion to the same Spanish company who partnered with a Texas construction company.

Actually, these “sales” are long term leases, which is much worse than an outright sale.

* The Chicago Skyway deal is for 99 years.
* The Indiana Tollway is for 75 years.

In what condition will these important roads be when they are returned to government? The folks who celebrate the deals today - and spend the billions - will be pushing up daisies by the time a new crop of government officials will have to explain why the roads have crumbled.

Now you ask where does Rudy Giuliani come in.. well,please go here:
http://www.manufacturingnews.com/news/07/0615/art2.html

Pat Choate, has spent the past year studying the NAFTA Superhighway and state and federal governments' desire to privatize America's highways. Choate is known as one of America's foremost economic experts on infrastructure. Twenty-five years ago, he wrote two influential books --"America in Ruins" and "Bad Roads." He alerted America that there was an "infrastructure crisis" coming. It is now squarely upon us.

President Reagan appointed Choate to his task force to develop the policy agenda for his second term. Choate wrote the infrastructure section.

Choate is a native Texan whose family has lived in Ellis County for more than 160 years. He is currently director of the Manufacturing Policy Project. He received an M.A. and a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Oklahoma.

In an interview with Manufacturing Technology Choate said:

"Well, I can tell you exactly what they're doing. Macquarie can't put money into a presidential campaign, but Rudy Giuliani can. It's a back-door way to finance the Giuliani campaign for 20-million, 40-million, 50-million bucks. Macquarie wants to own a president who will do tolling all over America. It is phenomenal.
Macquarie is a very shrewd corporation. As the opposition to this highway deal heated up in Texas, Macquarie bought 42 little newspapers, virtually all of which are along the route and most of which opposed the deal editorially. Why not? They can take billions of dollars out of Texas if Gov. Perry gets his way."