America on Sale, From Matt Taibbi's 'Griftopia'

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"When you're trying to sell a highway that was once considered one of your nation's great engineering marvels — 532 miles of hard-built road that required tons of dynamite, wood, and steel and the labor of thousands to bore seven mighty tunnels through the Allegheny Mountains — when you're offering that up to petro-despots just so you can fight off a single-year budget shortfall, just so you can keep the lights on in the state house into the next fiscal year, you've entered a new stage in your societal development."

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/17390/222206

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and from the same author:
Courts Helping Banks Screw Over Homeowners
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/17390/232611

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