Goldman Sachs Wants You to Pay-by-the-Mile to Drive on U.S. Roadways

**SoulNinja** · 02-10-10, 10:09 AM

“Yes, large Wall Street investment banks, led by Goldman, started advising states across the nation on how to raise fast money by diverting the most necessary publicly owned assets—roads—into private ownership,” wrote Wallace. “You have to admit, it’s brilliant, because it’s a forced and guaranteed market: Americans can’t get out of driving.”

http://www.americanfreepress.net/htm...ways__207.html

This is stupid. I hate toll roads... thats why i could never live in the NE they got too many up there. Now they are going to start privatizing our public roads in the name of recession, to help the states gain some money. Don't they gain enough money off us? How is this a solution with people unemployed and not making as much as before..

**CivilWars** · 02-10-10, 10:14 AM

If you are unemployed then how much driving do you truly do?

I agree I hate toll roads, but my guess is that the people that would be effected the most is once again the middle class that Obama is trying to take care of, right?

**Consultant** · 02-10-10, 10:14 AM

Maybe the maintenance issues would get handled sooner, lol.

What a complex business deal that would be...imagine the real estate commission on I-95 from Miami to Maine. ZOINKS!

**E_Pluribus_Unum** · 02-10-10, 10:15 AM

People will just avoid them in some way and that might put a few in jail. This would lead to court costs, a lawyer being hired, and all other sorts of fines.

So yea I can see where the states are going to make a little more money.

**SoulNinja** · 02-10-10, 10:18 AM

Originally Posted by CivilWars

If you are unemployed then how much driving do you truly do?

LMFAO IRL yea you are right about that one

**E_Pluribus_Unum** · 02-10-10, 10:18 AM

Originally Posted by CivilWars

If you are unemployed then how much driving do you truly do?

I agree I hate toll roads, but my guess is that the people that would be effected the most is once again the middle class that Obama is trying to take care of, right?

Ya best be takin the bus if you are...

**~~hawgballs~~** · 02-10-10, 10:24 AM

Originally Posted by CivilWars

If you are unemployed then how much driving do you truly do?

I agree I hate toll roads, but my guess is that the people that would be effected the most is once again the middle class that Obama is trying to take care of, right?

How did Obama get pulled into this?

It is Goldman Sachs, trying to influence "STATES" into selling their roads. I'm sure your "knight in shining armor" just loves to see stuff like this, I mean what he preached while he was in office was pure unadulterated privatization. Shit he even managed to privatize a good chunk of our war making. Yet you somehow try to tie Obama into this. Very weak at best Civil. And I know you weren't joking in your post, just a bit sophomoric.

**SapiensErus** · 02-10-10, 10:25 AM

Oh, so they want to make roads like the health-care system. Good idea, right capitalists?

**CivilWars** · 02-10-10, 10:27 AM

Originally Posted by SoySoldier

Oh, so they want to make roads like the health-care system. Good idea, right capitalists?

Last I checked I, and other taxpayers before and with me, paid for ALL of the roads in America. Last I checked MOST doctors in America paid for their own education, and MOST hospitals paid to construct their own facilities. Good try.

Edit - Fail quote fixed.

**triggerhappy2005** · 02-10-10, 10:33 AM

Originally Posted by CivilWars

If you are unemployed then how much driving do you truly do?

I agree I hate toll roads, but my guess is that the people that would be effected the most is once again the middle class that Obama is trying to take care of, right?

That's cute. A group of investment banks floats a silly idea and it's, drum roll please, Obama's fault.

Wait, isn't it God's fault since he is responsibile for everything that happens? Isn't it part of the master plan?