America has cultivated a culture of inversions over the past 30 or so years, where skimming off the top (in practice) has come to be seen as the ultimate good, and productive (long-term) investment seen as something to help losers with no obvious (i.e., immediate) benefits. Without drastic reform of financial markets to properly advantage long-term investment and properly disadvantage manipulation and skimming, along with a parallel commitment to maintaining and developing the public infrastructure etc. that was the key to the nation's historical development, it is no surprise that the country as built up over several centuries is morphing into a sea of dysfunction. Which is not to say that things aren't quite good for a lot of people. However, a sense of shared purpose seems to have been lost, to the extent it ever existed at all perhaps. That anyone would doubt that education should be priority number one is baffling in the extreme. But doubt they do.
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justitia omnibus
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"It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so."
- DC Warrior 2012-05-04 08:06:24 (72 views)
- gribble the mispost master 2012-05-03 11:43:03 (88 views)
