re: #270 HappyWarrior

I think we’ve become lazy and complacent. We’ve allowed way too many corners to be cut in the name of stopping “big government” and “saving taxpayer dollars”. You can look all around you and see the results. Our infrastructure was built to a pretty good standard and then left to fall apart over the last 50-70 yrs because money to maintain it was considered a waste. Now we have billions of dollars in replacing and repairing stuff ahead of us and no one is really making the massive effort needed to do it. Think of the jobs it could create. But nooo, investing in ourselves doesn’t have an immediate payback so it’s wasteful. That same mindset carries over into nearly every damned thing now. With guns, there’s money driving the lack of progress, but it’s also the same lazy thinking mixed with lots of fear. And that fear is being driven in part by things falling apart all around us. If things were good, if the economy was moving along, if our infrastructure and educational system were being repaired with tangible results, etc, then this palpable fear people are feasting on would dissipate.