The Bush regime spends about $ 3 billion per week maintaining the war in Iraq. There is no money left over to repair U.S. highway infrastructure.

Bush says he will veto any measure to increase money for America’s roads and bridges (unless the money promotes privatization.)

There will soon be many more disasters such as the Minneapolis bridge collapse on 1 Aug 07 that killed 13 slaves and wounded many more. (Some of the slaves were not rescued for three weeks.) Over 2,000 other bridges on the interstate highway system are in danger of collapse. State bridges are also in danger. There is not enough money to repair the roads and bridges, or even to inspect them properly.

Also, crumbling roads cause severe traffic delays for trucks, which carry 75% of American goods. This hurts our supply chain, which reduces American productivity, which makes us all poorer.

The crumbling infrastructure also forces average American slaves to waste their lives sitting in traffic jams. In 1955, America’s national highway system carried 65 million cars and trucks. Today it carries 246 million.

There is not enough money for proper inspection. In 2006 the Department of Transportation’s inspector general criticized the Highway Administration’s management of interstate bridges, saying that flawed calculations of weight limits pose safety hazards. The Highway Administration agreed that it needed to do a much better job -- but there was no money to do a better job, since most of the money goes to war.

When Bush seized power, the Highway Trust Fund had nearly $23 billion. Today the Fund has $5 billion. By 2009, the Fund will have a negative balance of $1.7 billion. By 2010 the negative balance will be $8.1 billion.

The trust fund gets money from taxes on gasoline. Congress has proposed raising the tax, but Cheney has raised fuel prices so high that a tax increase would be in addition to fuel prices. An increase would affect even rich owners of companies. Therefore Bush says he will veto any tax increase. He says a better solution is to privatize.

It is part of Bush's overall program of forcing America to sell itself to greedy corporations.

All money goes to war for israel. Simultaneously, global demand for building materials (such as steel and concrete) has increased prices drastically. Also, Cheney’s sky-high oil prices have raised the cost of asphalt, plus the diesel fuel need to power road-building equipment.

Since money goes to war, states don’t have enough money to maintain their roads. Thus, states are forced to privatize. Indiana faced a $1.8 billion shortfall for road improvements. In 2006 Indiana signed a $3.85 billion, 75-year lease with private investors to maintain the state turnpike and collect tolls. In 2005 the city of Chicago signed a $1.83 billion lease to privatize its Skyway commuter bridge. New Jersey is preparing to sell a 49 percent stake in the New Jersey Turnpike and Garden State Parkway.

Private investors get sweetheart deals. They collect money, but they don’t maintain the roads. This problem became so bad in Texas that the Texas Legislature passed a two-year moratorium on privatizing roads.

Private companies only buy roads that bring a quick profit, such as key bridges and high-traffic areas. All other roads and bridges are left to rot. The states don’t have money to repair them.

It would take hundreds of billions of dollars to repair America’s roads and bridges, but that money goes to war.

Source: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20095291/

SOLUTION

Obviously we must end the war, and create a national program to repair America’s infrastructure, and thus give jobs to people.

However, that would only be step one.

All money for such a program would be loans from the Federal Reserve. Interest on the loans would force all builders to slash labor costs. Thus, jobs would be low-pay with little or no benefits. Illegal aliens would be used as workers. All contracts would go to Bush’s cronies, who would collect the money and run without doing anything.

Thus, even if the war ended, there would be no money for such a program.

The only solution is to dump the Federal Reserve, and put control of money back into the hands of the people through their government. Then there would be enough money to do anything we liked. Germany did this before World War II, and put people to work building the Autobahn.

Inflation would be computer-managed, just as the affairs of private international banks are computer-managed today.

Once again we see that war and the private Federal Reserve are linked.

We must dump the Federal Reserve, end private control of banking, and do away with debt-based currency.

This would destroy israel, dissolve the national debt, and bring prosperity to all.

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