By ENGR101.COM Staff
Published March29, 2011

MARS ATTACKS!!!  NAFTA-loving legislators and Bilderberg-participant Governor Rick Perry, are now continuing to press for private land acquisition and construction of the Trans Texas Corridor.

The idea includes running dangerous Mexican trucks carrying potentially all kinds of cargo (Mexicans, Islamists, agricultural products, drugs, suitcase nukes, etc.) from the Mexican border thru Texas into other states located north and east of Texas.

A few weeks ago, President Obama finally turned his back on the Teamster’s union that had helped elect him and gave his blessing to Gov. Perry to satisfy Mexican government demands and also the demands of the Federal Reserve.

Mexican wheels and cargo hit the Texas highways in a few days. Watch out while driving I35!!

And the sellouts in the Texas legislature are moving fast as well.  On Wednesday, March 30, 2011, the Texas House Transportation Committee will hear a slew of bills (HB 2186, HB 2388, HB 2801, HB 2985, HB 3561, HB 3563-HB 3565, HB 3734) to privatize and toll tax Texas roads.  Eventually, many of the roads will fall into foreign hands.

Texas might not have enough money to pay public school teachers, and it is rumored that up to 100,000 Texas teachers might be laid off from work; but Texas representatives appear to be having no problem getting gas tax revenues and other public subsidies to their special interest groups that also include road-building contractors.

These bills represent sweetheart deals that have profit guarantees utilizing all of Texas gas tax revenue, massive public subsidies, low interest taxpayer-backed loans (TIFIA loans or Private Activity Bonds), and non-compete agreements that prohibit or penalize the expansion of surrounding free roads.

Published toll rates for such contracts start at 80 cents per mile to drive during peak hours. The deals socialize the losses and privatize the profits for a half century.

The worst bill is HB 3789 that re-creates the Trans Texas Corridor and that grants a blanket authorization for contracts called Public Private Partnerships (PPPs) to be entered into in secret, without financial disclosures, and with no sunset provision, which means the authority granted to participants is indefinite.  The House Transportation Committee will meet at 8 AM in Room E2.028. Read a detailed bill analysis here.

Another bill, HB 2432 (by John Davis), would give a blanket authorization to enter into these types of agreements for any road and other infrastructure projects in Texas.  That bill is also being heard on Wednesday, March 30 at 8 AM in Rm. E2.014.

There are also two bills to be heard in the Senate Transportation Committee on Wednesday, March 30 at 7:30 AM in Rm. E1.016 that would establish checkpoints to check for car insurance (SB 1700), and a pilot program for license plate readers/cameras for law enforcement (SB 1696). SB1700 is the statist “Papers, please!!” bill so make sure your papers are in order if it passes.

Then we have Texas Comptroller Susan Combs who has ignored her constitutional duty for two years by failing to report the financial mess, so that Gov. Perry could win the last election.     Now Comptroller Combs wants to authorize state money to be spent to support Formula One racing in Travis County, which prevents Travis County from having to get voter approval to raise taxes and funds for infrastructure improvements.  All this is to subsidize private backers of Formula One racing in Travis County.

Maybe we can train all those unemployed Texas teachers to change tires and do wash and lube, and retire Ms. Combs with enough income so that she can work to clean out those smelly Mexican trailers.

More to come soon.