What if U.S. Cities Dabbled in Privatization of Public Infrastructure?

*** This blog is second in a series of articles looking at the future of the BabyBoomers.

FINANCIALLY LAZY OPTION TO PROGRESS.
This debate is in American cities today. Imagine, instead of raising local taxes to pay for state and municipal infrastructure -- we just "charge" it. Possibly to off-shore banks in China, Saudi Arabia?

Introducing The GIC! Seems like the perfect solution for our Generation-In-Charge (GIC) that brought to us such great innovative financial scandals such as: Savings and Loan, Enron, FannyMae and now FreddyMac -- each situation cost all Americans millions (billions?) of tax dollars to sweep these failures under the rug.

Additionally, with such mis-misjudgment, isn't it strange that we would continue to pay some failed CEOs their hundred million dollar salaries in lieu of their financial mismanagement? Most people in such situations would lose their job. Not to mention, their home. And then, their car. Possibly even spend some time in prison?

It is for these reasons, we can only hope that GIC takes a moment of self-reflection. Possibly in this moment, they'll see their own chronic generational behavior issue: financial mismanagement.

CIVIC MIS-DIAGNOSIS, AGAIN.
Could it be, that after ignoring the crumbling infrastructure all these years, the current GIC would like to present financial solution to a mismanagement problem?

See, back in the day, the GIC inherited a new infrastructure built by the American people (Brokaw's Greatest Generation) and American tax dollars. In the 1950s and 60s, the people were engaged, they gave their fair share and they worked hard to make "the plan" a reality. Across America, both business and job opportunities made millionaires out of some and millions more were hired at a fair income to raise their families. The result was a giant infrastructure boom!

This GIC grew up in this rich environment of well-funded public schools and new roadways, yet as their moment of truth comes... they have yet to reinvest. Instead, they are considering financing America's infrastructure.

AND THE PATTERN CONTINUES...
What happens when if this goes awry as other scams have? I wonder what life would be like in mid-size cities across America if we outsource our taxes, then default on them? Would China or Saudi Arabia own the physical infrastructure of our cities and states? What happens to our property values then? Our freedom?

This blog was inspired by NYTimes article Running Out of Money, Cities Are Debating the Privatization of Public Infrastructure by Jenny Anderson.


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seanrox

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The Problem with Immigration in America : Solved.

If you accept The Constitution as the supreme law in America, we can continue to solve this worry-some issue in an intelligent manner...


DEFINITION:
Americans are born and other people become American citizens through an oath of citizenship. All others are visitors. "Illegal" or otherwise, these non-citizens are visitors and ambassadors of their home nation and culture. If a visitor represents himself as an American citizen, he is breaking the law... but, I've met some good people that are illegal "visitors."


CORPORATE CITIZENSHIP.
American corporations which employ illegal are breaking the law. This illegal practice undermines the our American economy and paying sub-standard wages based upon color or creed is simply unAmerican. Your hiring practices will decay our communities... but, I am friends with good people that own these corporations.


FEDERAL OBLIGATION.
The elected President, through the National Guard, is solely responsible for our nation's security and "our lives, liberty and pursuit of happiness." This is why we pay taxes to fund an uber-healthy Defense Budget. With these grand resources, to ignore this invasion is technical treason. The buck stops with the President concerning foreign policy. Any ignorance is criminal, but only a fool spits into the wind.


HOW CAN WE COMPROMISE AND DEAL W/ CHANGE?
Now, that we've established everyone is criminal in this difficult situation, get over it, because we've band-aiding stupidity for a long time.

• Truth about Immigration: It's awesome, we've always done it. People come to America for the opportunity to better themselves and this exactly what empowers our Nation's noble military force.
  
  
• A New Federal View: Effective Security and Strategic Immigration Policies. Whether The President decides to build a fence, invent an electronic laser-sensing widget or dig an alligator-infested moat, the effectiveness should be measured.
  
  Hand-in-glove with "security" is a sleek, manageable system to encourage visitors to register to become American citizens. I've heard this "path to citizenship" conversation, but it lacks a sense reality. All these "visitors" are already here. The majority are good-natured, hard-working people seeking to better their life.
  
  Now, the visitors' American employers are criminal for quasi-skimming (see mafia) our economy with "black market wages". Again, these practices are poisonous citizenship. If the visitors can register to be legal, the greed of employers with "black market wages" will feed back into the American economy and better our working class.
  
  
• U.S. State Driver's License for Visitors? No, in too many cases, a license allows entry to our voting polls. It is simple: develop a "National Visitor's License" which encourages them to be honest about their background and improve the safety of our American roadways.
  
  
• Share and share alike: Real Estate. NAFTA and CAFTA are underway and Americans have mixed feelings about the affects. To eleviate the asset "pinch", Mexico should allow "visitors" to freely own property.
  
  

• Regular Americans. How does this help You and I?
  
  
  • No one goes to jail for trying to earn a living. That's unAmerican.
    
    
  • The American working man must compromise on his wage, but it will become fairer.
    
    
  • Visitors won't hide in the shadows of ignorance and our roads will be safer. Most important: by issuing a special "Visitor's Driving License", we'll eleviate some voter fraud issues.

How's that for a beginning to intelligently solving the Immigration problem in America?

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