If someone tries to sell you the Brooklyn Bridge, don't bother - someone in Australia already bought it....

CBS News shares this little tid-bit.

Foreign Companies Buy U.S. Roads, Bridges
Foreign companies are buying up American highways and bridges built by U.S. taxpayers

Roads and bridges built by U.S. taxpayers are starting to be sold off, and so far foreign-owned companies are doing the buying...

Washington is not likely to produce more money to build roads. The federal highway fund -- which will have a balance of about $16 billion by the end of 2006 -- will run out in 2009 or 2010, according to White House and congressional estimates.

About half the states now let companies build and operate roads. Many changed their laws recently to do so.

So, let me get this straight:

1. We have no money to pay for roads? We cannot afford to build new roads or manage existing highways and bridges? This country cannot manage its own infrastructure? Maybe that's true: the Federal Reserve says our nation is bankrupt.

2. We're so incapable of taking care of ourselves that our political leadership's only response is to sell our roads, bridges, highways and infrastructure to foreign investors? Not surprising: our nation's capital is in lock-down/crime emergency mode, after all. It's so bad in DC - Americans claim to feel safer dodging bombs in Israel than they do living in the United States!

I guess folks are just getting used to the notion that a nation of broke-ass, violent, criminal nitwits is...what...evolution?

It seems poverty, despair, crime, violence and legislative larceny are now the accepted and official standards of our nation.

We’re not, exactly, doing anything to change the circumstances, are we?

It’s like a John Waters movie.

But who’s laughing?