Tags
911, airports, blackstone, bridges, Budget, crumbling infrastructure, DeFazio, DOT, Energy Independence, environment, essential infrastructure, FAST Act, Federal Funding, harbors, high-speed internet, highway trust fund, Hillary, infrastructure, infrastructure funding, investment, labor law, PIF, ports, privatization, Roads, Saudi, Schools, Sovereign Wealth Fund, Syria, tolled roads, tolls, trade deal, transit systems, Trump, Trump budget, Trump infrastructure plan, Trump World Tower, Wall Street, World Trade Center, yemen
Typo in first paragraph corrected.
Trump’s original infrastructure plan was to hand part of US infrastructure to the Saudi Government and Blackstone, generating some of the new revenue streams that the Saudi government has been seeking. We don’t know if his plan involved tolled roads, owned by Saudi Arabia, or debt. Either way, once the US frees itself from energy dependence upon Saudi Arabia, they would still control Americans and US foreign policy by owning its infrastructure. There’s no reason to believe that his plan has changed, though the amount that they proposed in 2017 is inadequate for needs. There are many other oil rich countries with sovereign wealth funds, too, who are seeking new revenue streams for the petroleum free future.
Trump has done business with rich Saudis for at least 32 years. The Saudi government has continued to back Islamic extremists, as well as making people more open to extremism through their policies…
View original post 1,991 more words
Mining Awareness + 