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Frustratedlady

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1. This is a good example of what Elizabeth Warren and Obama were referring to...
Tue Jan 27, 2015, 10:31 AM
Jan 2015

Corporations didn't succeed on their own, they used our roads and bridges, grids, educational services, etc., etc., etc. It doesn't sound as though any "payback" they have made in repairs to the roads has been for the benefit of the "neighborhood" but to benefit them...curves removed, for one.

My area is going to have a similar situation with a monstrous new plant going up. There are signs everywhere to beware of trucks entering the highway. Who's going to argue with a truck? They have totally changed the environment and landscape...even got tax advantages to do so.

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