Kind of helps when you have jobs so that people need to go to those transportation hubs to come visit.

As much as everyone hates to hear it, unless you enhance opportunities for corporations to operate in the USA the more jobs will leave our country.

http://www.businessinsider.com/intel-ceo-blasts-obama-administration-says-anti-business-policies-are-killing-the-country-2010-8

The link above blasts democrats but in all honesty both parties have succeeded in alienating business.

Then again we can invest all this money in roads and railways so all the rich foreign businessmen can come and take the train from the airport.

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Getting to the point of the original post, I agree with Rich. Letting the market operate unconstrained, or in that long lost terminology, a free market, while desired by us all, is truly a pipe dream.