Highway To Hell?

Wowee!!! So Texas governor Rick Perry is going to build a highway across Texas financed by a foreign firm Cintra-Zachary. This is even a bigger scam than Perry???s decision, at the request of Tom DeLay, to replace the districting plan created by a non-partisan commission with a district plan gerrymandered to ensure a permanent Republican majority. If I were a stockholder with Cintra-Zachary, I???d insist on control over all the underpasses and overpass that cross the superhighway. I???d set up toll booths on those over passes as well as toll booths on the high way. . If a Texan wants to see Aunt Millie on the other side of the highway, I???d make him or her pay, pay, pay. The same applies to the high way itself. In the winter, when the folks in the Mid-West need fuel oil, I???d charge a free market toll for oil delivery trucks. Again pay, pay, pay. I wonder if Cintra-Zachary will go public so that I can buy stock and reap a fortune. Besides enriching me, has it occurred to anyone that any one can get control of Cintra-Zachary? All they have to do is buy 51% of the stock. That of course includes Mamoud Ahmandinejad, Al Qaeda or any of their operatives. We???re opening the door to terrorists, and this is being done by a righteous, anti-terrorist Republican.

However, I might point out that Ron Paul is hardly a person to point fingers at others. His libertarian philosophy requires putting the entire Interstate system for sale to the highest bidder. Because the libertarians do not believe in any interference with the mechanisms of the free market, any terrorist organization, including Al Qaeda, could set up a dummy corporation to buy any section of the interstate they wanted to fund their terrorist activities. As an Angeleno, I can???t help but think of what would happen if the Interstates in California were privatized. In the event of a wildfire - (and thanks to global warming and the libertarians??? refusal to see global warming as a serious problem, we???ll see more wildfires, not less), you could jack up the tolls by 1000%. You only need to ask terrified refugees how badly they want their family to escape the fire and charge what the free market allows. You could even hire torches to start wildfires, so you could make more money. As far as the law goes, the Bush Administration has proven there???s no real right and wrong. The only think that counts is a political contribution. So simply throw a little money to the right set of Republicans, and the government will look the other way. I???m really ???thrilled??? about all the prospects of the libertarian free market utopia. It???s just too bad that I???m really too principled to take advantage of them.

It amazes me that whenever someone says anything against the government the media labels them conspiracy nuts or radicals. Readers may be interested to know that when FDR unveiled his New Deal the so-called conspiracy theorists predicted it would end the American dream, and it did. They predicted the social security number would one day be used to track people like cattle, and it has. Even then the media accused the conspiracy theorists of scaring people for no reason. They also effectively silenced those who dared to say anything against the New Deal, much like they do now about the Iraq war. Their day is coming and I can't wait to see it!

Your show was like a carnie game "whack a mole" with all the talking MT heads. Heck half of the have some sort of interest in the non-existent HY. I used to read NW years ago but found much of the in error or just propaganda and canceled. The NAFTA highway was proposed in the OK legislature in 1995 as I recal and the good people of Texas are trying to kill it as we speak. Please have more silly shows like this will just speed your loss of your viewer and readers with the other networks and papers we are not buying the BS. If a news paper falls in the woods and no one heard it did it fall?

If the North American Union Highway is not on the drawing board, then what are these things - shouldn't Congress have oversight and keep the US citizens informed?
http://www.canamex.org/
http://www.spp.gov/
http://www.cfr.org/project/423/independent_task_force_on_north_america.html

are we now in the age of superficial everything? it seems politics, business, and even interpersonal relationships are all buddying up to the idea of superficial judgment to get quick and immediate gains or pleasures. but for all their talk of ethics, journalism seems to have joined the latest greatest trend in the western world, the trend of "superficialism". in politics we have senators and representatives voting on bills and resolutions and acts based solely on titles. Now it seems we have superficial coverage of anything a public official or icon says.

for all you say on what Ron Paul is "really" referring to, why don't you just interview the man and let him explain what he means, and what his sources for himself? would that be too much trouble for a news agency? to actually report something that amounts to more than opinion? I seriously doubt the sources you cited are the sources he would cite, furthermore, you effectively have put words in the man's mouth by doing this.

and just to finish this out, when did Ron Paul ever say this was an issue to be afraid of? he simply said, if this is an issue that matters to you, you need to make your voice heard, and not let the other ideology win out.

are we now in the age of superficial everything? it seems politics, business, and even interpersonal relationships are all buddying up to the idea of superficial judgment to get quick and immediate gains or pleasures. but for all their talk of ethics, journalism seems to have joined the latest greatest trend in the western world, the trend of "superficialism". in politics we have senators and representatives voting on bills and resolutions and acts based solely on titles. Now it seems we have superficial coverage of anything a public official or icon says.

for all you say on what Ron Paul is "really" referring to, why don't you just interview the man and let him explain what he means, and what his sources for himself? would that be too much trouble for a news agency? to actually report something that amounts to more than opinion? I seriously doubt the sources you cited are the sources he would cite, furthermore, you effectively have put words in the man's mouth by doing this.

and just to finish this out, when did Ron Paul ever say this was an issue to be afraid of? he simply said, if this is an issue that matters to you, you need to make your voice heard, and not let the other ideology win out.

I'll just add 'Gretel C. Kovach' to my list of authors never to trust. Oh ya, I will also add Newsweek to my list of magazines to never read.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=Br31mdP8-Ug

HERE IS THE PROOF OF THE TRANS-TEXAS CORRIDOR AKA SUPERHIGHWAY. worthless newsweek reporter

WHOSE THE *** THAT WROTE THIS ***?

WHOSE THE *** that wrote this piece of ***???

Hey Gretel

Next time you write an article. I Challenge you to do some research first!

It dispels tales about a "secret plan" to build a superhighway. Does it make it better that there's no "conspiracy" and the highway is simply REAL???

Please see this link: http://www.infratrans.gov.ab.ca/INFTRA_Content/docType59/Production/pol295.htm

It's not a conspiracy. It's actually happening. At least discuss the issue on it's merits not a political rag-doll.

The one candidate that is against the now-common fear tactics used by EVERY OTHER CANDIDATE and you start out your article with: Ron Paul wants you to be scared. Please everyone reading this and outraged please digg this up or submit to reddit and get this smear propaganda exposed!

I have to comment again(2nd time), this so infuriates me! Newsweek, does this really seem in any way unbiased or newsworthy? You focus the single article you will devote to Ron Paul on questioning his sanity?!?! He has won almost every straw poll that he is included in, he is a serious candidate that has a mission to return America to the ideals of the founding fathers and the Constitution. You could have chosen to write about his record-breaking(donations and polls) grass-roots support, his very unpopular (in Congress) views on American interventionism, the validity of his libertarian viewpoints or his ideas about the proper role of the executive branch and the entire federal government. Instead you write a smear piece calling him a conspiracy theorist?

Here's another conspiracy theory for you Gretel, please work on this one next: Ron Paul is one of those one in a million honest politicians trying to expose some of the huge problems we need to focus on as Americans such as our out of control empire, our record debt, failing economy, the endless war and fear propaganda. Sadly he is being marginalized by ignorant members of the main stream media like yourself, how's that for a conspiracy!

We know your kind, we've seen your kind, we"ve dealt with your kind before. This kind of in-your-face truthless and ruthless [frontal attacks on Ron Paul] pretence for reporting doesn't hoodwink many folks these days. Ms. Kovach's ignorance is only exceeded by her arrogance and her error stance. Go ahead and parrot the Bush administration's talking points but the Liar in Chief has no credibility anymore. Neither does Kovach nor the magazine she writes for, Newsweek. For shame!

We know your kind, we"ve seen your kind, we've dealt with your kind before. Ms. Kovach's ignorance is exceeded only by her arrogance and error stance. The American people and people collectively around the world are waking up to the myriad deceitful agendas that are being promulgated, yet denied even as they are promulgated. We've had enough of the "doublethink" and talking points of a lying government, media and corporatist oligarchy. Ms. Kovach is but one of a myriad pawns in the grand globalist conspiracy. Deny the obvious and dis- seminate disinformation. Such sham. Shame!