| A giant Anglo-Australian mining company is getting the rights to a huge copper reserve--and we don't know what American taxpayers are getting in return.
In December, two Republican senators, John McCain and Jeff Flake, pushed Congress and the president into giving away what could amount to over $130 billion in public property. That's enough to provide every single unemployed American a minimum-wage job for an entire year. That's enough to pay for a year of tuition at a public institution for every college student in the US.... And yet the GOP big-shots call themselves "fiscal conservatives"! "Fiscal conservatives," my you-know-what.I'm talking about the huge giveaway to the mining companies Rio Tinto and BHP Billiton in the Defense Authorization Act. It was splayed across ten pages of the bill, pages 441 to 450 (out of 697). |
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