[Texgreen] Status of USA

[Roger Baker]

The anti-corruption forces on the right and left are merging or  
increasingly saying the same thing:

<http://www.texasturf.org/>



Somebody sent me the following:

"It's estimated that it'll cost one and a half trillion bux and take  
20 years to put roads, bridges, sewers, water plants, railroads,   
ports and all the other aging infrastructure in order.

The US can't compete and will sink to third world status if it isn't  
done.  The smirking chimp has spent 2/3 of that in five years on a  
war we're losing.  And, the water in Baghdad has been out for the  
last six days.  Yes, a trillion dollars spent and the electricity  
grid can't supply enough power to run water purification and pumping  
plants in Baghdad during 120 degree summer heat.  US troops get  
bottled water at a cost of about ten bux a bottle courtesy of KBR- 
Halliburton, while Baghdadis sicken and die from polluted or no water.

And we're looking at infrastructure collapse here at home.  One  
expert I interviewed (Rod Diridon of the Mineta Transportation  
Institute in San Jose) says we have to raise the cost of gasoline to  
the European level of eight dollars per gallon right now with 70  
percent of that as tax going to the Highway Transportation Fund just  
to rescue it from bankruptcy and begin rebuilding the interstates.   
Think any politician is likely to take on that as a policy plank?"