says, out of the public spotlight, the Bush administration is planning to build a 4,000 mile $184 billion multi-modal - ten-lane transport superhighway" [...] "splitting the country in two" from Mexico to Canada, when gas is already over $3 a gallon. The peeps over at Hammerblog sum it up as "a technocrat's dream: a secretive, multibillion dollar mega-boondoggle P3 with no public discussion and finger-tingling eminent domain potential - and we haven't even gotten as far as its impacts in the context of peak oil or climate change." Check it out.
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that $2 billion border fence sure looks like a bargain ..
do not build the superhighway !! give it all to mexico and do some good plz k thks
can you imagine how the politicians in the crossover states are drooling? i'm sure even the ky state gov't has been trying to figure out how it could make sense for it to route through here.
people are talking as if this is something new from the bush administration. i live outside memphis, and this highway (I-69) is planned to pass within 5 miles of my house. we have known of the plans for the highway since the late 80's, and in fact, much of the local infrastructure within the past decade has been designed and built to accommodate access to the highway. its a done deal and has been for many years ... like it or not. i personally am not too thrilled with the route, but dislike the fact that cheap goods from Mexico will be rolling into our country at an even more efficient pace. too bad for the few American hold-out companies in the heartland, they are a dying breed.
amen tenn :'(
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