Monday, August 9, 2010

Today's Required Reading

"America Goes Dark" by Paul Krugman.  (The New York Times, August 9, 2010)

Excerpt: Meanwhile, a country that once amazed the world with its visionary investments in transportation, from the Erie Canal to the Interstate Highway System, is now in the process of unpaving itself: in a number of states, local governments are breaking up roads they can no longer afford to maintain, and returning them to gravel.

And a nation that once prized education — that was among the first to provide basic schooling to all its children — is now cutting back. Teachers are being laid off; programs are being canceled; in Hawaii, the school year itself is being drastically shortened. And all signs point to even more cuts ahead
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1 comment:

Mark Merrifield said...

Read this op-ed piece this morning in the Times, and also felt it was well phrased and, as you put it, 'eloquent'.