Government Mafia of Infrastructure

I worked for the Federal government most of my life. They somehow always form the conclusion that they own whatever they administrate. The people in this nation are going to have to tell these bureaucrats else wise.

They have no problem making the people pay for projects they already paid for because they actually think they own it and it is theirs to do what they want instead of it belonging to the people.

Even at the national level national land management agencies refer to national public land as “our land” and by “our” they mean that they own it. Most of that problem has to do with states advocating their state rights to the Federal government. Why did Federally administrated lands in a sovereign state become lands owned by the federal government? I know courts have now sided with the feds on these lands but only because the states established a precedence by not standing up to these federal government thieves long ago. Now some states like New York have totally control of almost all their lands and other states have lost control of up to have their state to the federal government. These states could not even remove themselves from the Union because the Government claims their land. Are we now going to see the same thing with U.N. biospheres?

People need to send a firm message that government bureaucrats are hired servants of the people. You do what the citizens tell you to do and not vice versa. Because if the precedence is set to keep selling the infrastructure that taxpayers have already paid for there will no end to this extortion by the Government Mafia of Infrastructure.

For sale: America’s infrastructure

In the 1960s, the people of Florida borrowed a bunch of money to build a highway from Naples to the East Coast. To repay the construction costs, the state charged a small fee to each traveler who used the road. The idea worked so well that in the 1980s, they borrowed another bunch of money to widen the road to four lanes to meet interstate highway standards. The toll was increased to repay the construction costs.

The construction costs are now repaid. What should be done about the toll fee?

A. Eliminate it, since the debt is repaid.

B. Reduce it to an amount sufficient to pay maintenance costs.

C. Increase the toll for 50 to 75 years, to line the pockets of private investors.

The correct answer, of course, is “C,” according to the Florida Department of Transportation.

It will take a major rebellion by the people to prevent this gross injustice. The people have formed the Citizens Transportation Coalition to mount that rebellion. But it will take more than the people of Collier and Broward Counties to stop this money-grab by Florida’s government.

People in every state should be concerned. At least 14 states have now passed legislation that allows governments to sell or lease infrastructure for which the people have already paid. Every sale/lease deal of American infrastructure, whether to foreign or domestic private financiers, forces the people to pay again and again and again for the privilege of using their own infrastructure.

The elected and appointed officials who promote the sale of infrastructure know they are likely to be out of office when the toll rate begins to rise. In Indiana, for example, the deal negotiated required the toll rates to remain relatively static for the first 10 years, before rapid increases were authorized. Who can be held accountable then?

Despite all claims to the contrary made by government officials that they will protect the interests of the toll road users, there can be no lease deal that will not penalize the users and force them to pay again and again for using the road the road they have already bought.