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While watching "The Secret Life of Garbage" on BIO channel, the name Veolia was introduced and identified as a waste-removal business. I recognized the name from "Blue Gold" a documentary about the ever-increasing privatization of water--Veolia is one of the largest water-rights owners and industrial waste-water management: they pollute the ground water, clean it, then sell it back to the people whose ground-water they "own". Do you know who OWNS your drinking water? What's up with your

The highest grade any part of America's infrastructure receives is C, "mediocre". How safe do you feel on that bridge? How 'bout those PG&E gaslines? Do you know the "state of your state"? Find out here. We spend 2.4% on infrastructure, as opposed to 9% in China. Newt Gingrich says we should be more like China, where they also have jobs (ours) developing alternative fuels and refining our steel and lumber (our resources). Our infrastructure, however, is 100% U.S.A. How freakin' pathetic is that? Does anyone know how to make water or air yet?

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