YES! It's his only option to fix our crumbling roads and bridges.
4%
NO! Private industry should not own our infrastructure!
96%
Asked on Jan. 16, 2015 11:51 am
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Only as a secondary machine to complement rebuilding and updating. Corporations have shown America, that it can't bebtrusted to build our country into the future. Corruption would be outrageous. Look at the Iraq rebuilding of their infrastructure. Everyone got ripped, and there is now, no infrastructure.
Is this a trick question? I'm retired Teamsters and the contractor bid for the work did the work and was paid for the work. I'm just not sure what the question is. Nobody but the people should own the commons roads, water, air they belong to us
Not anymore, Truevet. Look at all the hospitals, built and paid for by the taxpayer that were turned over to "investors" between twenty and forty years ago. Roads and bridges? Same thing.
Roland
Well, They did put up some fancy NEW & IMPROVED stickers. The most expensive stickers ever conceived.
Roland