If you look thru that list of "companies" there are quite a few that began life as public utilities. In their case the term "YOU DIDN'T BUILD THAT" very much applies. Some guy with the money took value and gave us bigger bills (like the "harvesters" like Romney).
We the people built that infrastructure. By putting our money and support into it, we put our blood and tears into it. We are the ones who supported the eminent domain to buy the right-of-ways -- it was our land that was "donated".
And then some politician, a temp worker, came in and decided it had some value, so he sold it. Even tho HE didn't own it. Sometimes he asked us tho many times our objections were ignored.
Like that bridge that the big controversy is about...how much of port authority is us and how much goes to line the 1% pockets? Or parking meters in Chicago.
When someone says take back our country, how about we start with this? If eminent domain worked to take away the right-of-ways, it sure should be able to work to take back our infrastructure.
Then maybe I can tell Comcast and Verizon to shove their cables and towers.
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