Great essay by Tim Bedore on the misplaced tax and spending priorities in this country.
My fellow Americans, things that work, like bridges, cost money. Things that work really well, cost lots of money. Things that work really well and don’t break because they’ve been inspected, maintained, improved, replaced, cost lots and lots of money. Tax money.
My daughter was on a school bus that crossed that bridge a few weeks before it went down. Now is indeed the time to point fingers and give a failing grade to the political philosophy that says we can run America on the cheap.
It’s not just bridges. We also want a bargain basement education system.
From the American Public Media program Marketplace.