The Christian Science Monitor likes public-private arrangements such as the Indiana Toll Road lease as a way to tackle the mounting infrastructure costs in this country, estimated at $1.6 trillion over the next five years. Its editorial makes the point that the public trust requires scrupulous government oversight of such deals, but:
In an era of globalization, when foreign companies invest in the US and vice versa, the foreign aspect should not alarm - especially since these are lease, not buy, deals.
