"America is now on the unlit, unpaved road to nowhere." - Krugman, Paul, NYT 8/8/10
What a discouraging statement to read this early in the morning! In fact, what a discouraging, almost apocalyptic opinion piece. Nevertheless, my fear is that this is the road we're travelling down. All I have to do is look around and the evidence is there. Will the lights go out in our town? I suspect it might eventually come down to that; to me its logical to remove the least objectional of necessary services before real cuts are made and if a city, county or state budget has to be balanced, what choice do you have? One of my colleagues in a rural Ohio county community has no bus service for her children. She can manage to find a work around but what about those families that can't? Do they not go to school?
Here's the thing, if you want to have these services you have got to pay for them and the middle class is tapped out or no longer exists. So those that have are just going to have to pay more or they will suffer the consequences just like everyone else. We are all in this together.
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