Trumps America First Infrastructure Plan: Let Saudi Arabia and Blackstone Take Care of It
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2017 May 28, 8:45am 1,121 views 3 comments
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Tenpoundbass
2017 May 28, 9:14am
I'm perfectly fine with what ever Saudi Arabia does to their citizens who adore the government and will personally chop your head off for speaking ill of their government or the rich elite who run it.
I am 5,000% sure with most certainty, that if we did anything to try to improve their conditions according to our standards. It would be the biggest Hell on earth, and most of the population would die at OUR hands.
Stop trying save people we'd fucking kill in a heartbeat.
justme
2017 May 28, 10:17am
Horrible stuff. Trump will attempt to privatize US infrastructure under the guise of "repairing it".
justme
2017 May 28, 10:29am
Hey BAO, you headline is not so informative. I suggest:
Trumps America First Infrastructure Plan: Let Saudi Arabia and Blackstone steal it from the public.
Throughout the presidential campaign, Donald Trump blasted his rival for taking money from Saudi Arabia, which, he regularly charged, has a horrific human rights record and was behind the attack on September 11.
“You talk about women and women’s rights? So these are people that push gays off buildings. These are people that kill women and treat women horribly. And yet you take their money,†he complained.
Trump, of course, has never been married to anything he has said in the past. But even by Trumpian standards, a recent series of deals he struck with Saudi Arabia stand out.
The two that made the news — a $110 billion arms deal and a $100 million gift to an Ivanka Trump-inspired endowment — are remarkable in their own right.
But the third, which was rolled out much more quietly, is no less stunning: The Saudi kingdom joined forces with a top outside adviser to Trump to build a $40 billion war chest to privatize U.S. infrastructure.
The vehicle would employ the same kind of public-private partnerships, known as P3s, the Trump administration has endorsed for its trillion dollar infrastructure plan. The deal hands over control of projects to rebuild American roads and bridges to the private sector and a foreign country.
Full Article: https://theintercept.com/2017/05/27/trumps-america-first-infrastructure-plan-let-saudi-arabia-and-blackstone-take-care-of-it/?comments=1#comments
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