Civic-funding Solution:
How long until some multi-national realizes the massive advertising benefits to be reaped from having their name plastered all over more lasting projects? How about if Microsoft goes in with the federal government and agrees to fund the re0surfacing of. oh, say, Interstate 10? Microsoft can certainly spare a hundred billion or so. Taxpayers would get a new 3000-mile freeway for nothing. And Microsoft would get its name on a hundred thousand highway signs, on maps, and in atlases everywhere. What a bargain. Here and there we of course might have to put up with a billboard: Where do you want to go today? Ex-lax could start overhauling municipal sewer systems. The city limits signs can be easily changed: Welcome to Dubuque. Ibuprofin can sponsor sound-reduction walls all along the Microsoft freeways, with modest plaques attached: Folks who live here don't have headaches Government debt at all levels is reduced. Employment goes up in the
advertising industry. Demand for products rises, sales increase. Everybody, in the best
spirit of true laissez-faire Capitalism, benefits. |
We've got the FedEx Bowl, Enron Stadium. What's next? The Pampers
World Series? The