As reported by Richard Daub in his three-part series in The Erickson Tribune, states that are strapped for money are selling toll roads to private companies. What a dumb-downed country we live in.  We (or more correctly about half the voters) elected a lying administration that took us into an unnecessary war that is now bleeding the U.S. Treasury at the rate of 2 billion dollars a week, not to mention the gastly toll in human suffering. We are destroying Iraq's infrastructure which will then be rebuilt by graft-guzzling companies like Cheney's Halliburton.

We need election reform that prevents those who have the power, i.e., money, to select the candidates in primary elections. Until then things will get worse. There are proposals beng floated around the country to eliminate entitlements such as kindergarden and free school bus transportation. This, in the richest country in the world. Would that we had brains to match our wealth.