JFlorio Loc: Seminole Florida

Could you imagine self regulation of your big mouth?

Ve'hoe

First, you don't sell it to a foreign country. Then,,,, you don't let Obama sponsor a humongous depression and call it OK,,,

On a single day in June, an Australian-Spanish partnership paid $3.8 billion to lease the Indiana Toll Road. An Australian company bought a 99-year lease on Virginia's Pocahontas Parkway, and Texas officials decided to let a Spanish-American partnership build and run a toll road from Austin to Seguin for 50 years.

The problem for the ITR’s investors -- and one that can potentially unravel similar deals -- is the imprecise nature of traffic projections. They are, transportation officials admit, notoriously unreliable and more of an art form than a science. If investors guess too high, they could lose big sums. But if they guess too low, they might wind up losing out on a good deal. The ITR deal was a case of especially bad timing, since there’s no way Macquarie and Cintra could have predicted that the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression would strike so soon after the ink dried on the contract. The ITR “was bought during a bubble and the [new owners are] trying to operate during a recession,” says David Ellis, a research economist with the Texas Transportation Institute. “To expect for this to be a rosy time might be a little bit contrary to logic.”
Americans, still suffering the effects of a recession while facing elevating gas prices, aren’t driving as much as they used to. Moreover, the volume of commercial truck traffic -- key to the success or failure of the ITR -- is tied directly to the state of the economy at large. With those trucks not hauling the volume of products they once did, it’s no surprise the investors are struggling.

J Anthony Loc: Connecticut

The national debt is a systemic problem caused by the privatization of currency-creation and credit control. Try to understand and come to grips with this truth, and you will see it is the root of our fiscal problems. If we didn't have to borrow the money for our money-supply from private-bankers, we wouldn't have a national debt. Our government is complicit in this institutionalized usury. Nothing changes until we deal with that.

Workinman Loc: Bayou Pigeon

:thumbup: you have got that right.

Super Dave Loc: Realville, USA

Your fascination with Communism and/or Socialism is remarkable.

Here's the flaw in your argument.

When a federal project, like the Boston Big-Dig or VA or American Indian Hospitals or Obamacare website loses billions of dollars, it doesn't go bankrupt. It gets more funding if liberals get their way.

So you can't compare a government monopoly that supports failure to a private sector enterprise that supports success.

If you want your life run by the incompetent and corrupt. That's your problem, but I won't stand by silently while your fellow progressives ruin the country that my family and I live in.

IOW - Private sector is held to a much higher standard than government works.. And I like higher standards.

Tasine Loc: Southwest US

Our government is complicit?!?! Are you kidding? Our government is TOTALLY AND COMPLETELY RESPONSIBLE. They aren't "complicit". They OWN the blame. There's not a damned thing a business, a bank, a loan company - ANY AMERICAN OR AMERICAN BUSINESS can do about money WITHOUT OUR GOVERNMENT'S EXPLICIT INVOLVEMENT AND APPROVAL. Quit trying to blame private enterprise for acting on YOUR politicians' AUTHORITY (FORCE). It shows you for the fool you are.

Jesus Christ

You are correct!

Airforceone

Who's policy is it to subsidies oil companies, who's policy was it to bail out the financial institutes, who's policy was it to create tax inversion, is this not a form of subsidies

Airforceone

That's because your ideology will not allow real facts to get into your head. It's real and it happens all the time. It happened to my son.

J Anthony Loc: Connecticut

kush

I love the part where Obama.....sponsors a depression LOL

Yes, Bush left a healthy economy there. Jeesh!!!!!

It is one thing to have an informed opinion, but what a load here!!!

J Anthony Loc: Connecticut

Right. Whatever helps you sleep at night, it's not my mission in life to assign this or that amount of blame. The government worked in collusion with private interests on the Federal Reserve Act of 1913. Over the last century, private banking conglomerates amassed power that often dwarfed that of the governments they supplied currency for. Look it up, see what happened to government officials when they publicly challenged the private banking system. There has long been such an insidious, revolving-door relationship between higher-ups in government and private banking, you can hardly tell who's working for who anymore. You're the fool if you think all the lords of business finance in the private sector are all benign and virtuous, looking out for your well-being. Unlike yourself, i can see there are bad seeds in both sectors that are taking us all for fools. What do you think should be done? Just argue about blame? We're all to blame, pal, we ARE the government. When are you self-righteous types going to acknowledge that we the people also own the responsibility? Right? Don't you folks think you have a lock on accountability? Where is it now?

J Anthony Loc: Connecticut

J Anthony Loc: Connecticut

You're right, but shouldn't that mean that we need to apply higher standards to our government and the public sector as well? How is it ok to let public services decline and society along with it? Government is not a private business, nor should it ever be, but leaders in both parties want to run it like one, and that's the problem. I'm not saying government is the answer. But a real government that actually does more good than bad would be a refreshing change of pace. Or maybe you prefer no government at all? Could it work? I'm always open to new ideas and different views.

Tasine Loc: Southwest US

Let me refer you to a site about what you just asked: http://no-ruler.net