While I have always opposed public funding for Catholic schools, given their discriminatory practices and the duplication of many services, the sad truth is that our elected leaders will likely never defund them, given that the political costs far outweigh potential benefits.
Can anyone imagine a project such as the building of a national railroad or a coast to coast highway happening today? Any project of national scope or importance?
We're even allowing our physical infrastructure to collapse out from under us without doing anything at all about it other than patchwork.
And it's not politicians or political parties who are doing this.
It's me and you, it's the human citizens of this place.
Imagine if a political party, at any level, ran on a platform of spending money on highways and bridges, waste systems, transportation infrastructure and so on.
Oblivion would be their reward.
We're insane and we're consigning those who come after us to a garbage heap.
While I have always opposed public funding for Catholic schools, given their discriminatory practices and the duplication of many services, the sad truth is that our elected leaders will likely never defund them, given that the political costs far outweigh potential benefits.
ReplyDeleteCan anyone imagine a project such as the building of a national railroad or a coast to coast highway happening today? Any project of national scope or importance?
ReplyDeleteWe're even allowing our physical infrastructure to collapse out from under us without doing anything at all about it other than patchwork.
And it's not politicians or political parties who are doing this.
It's me and you, it's the human citizens of this place.
Imagine if a political party, at any level, ran on a platform of spending money on highways and bridges, waste systems, transportation infrastructure and so on.
Oblivion would be their reward.
We're insane and we're consigning those who come after us to a garbage heap.
For lack of a better term, "Amen," Cap'n . . . .
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