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Broke Counties Turn Failing Roads To Gravel
To save money, more than 20 Michigan counties have decided to turn deteriorating paved roads back to gravel. Montcalm County estimates that repaving a road costs more than $100,000 a mile. Grinding the same mile of road up and turning it into gravel costs $10,000. At least 50 miles of road have been reverted to gravel in Michigan the past three years. I can't wait until we revert back to whale oil lighting and can finally be rid of this electricity fad.
While we dream away into the digital haze, our greed-based economy drives hell-bent toward entropy.
What did we think would happen?
Rolling blackouts and hospitals dumping patients, levees bursting, corruption, corruption, corruption. . . Guantanamo is still in business and the populace is apparently cool with that. Corporate America in action. But do we purge the nation of the scum? Nope. Hell, most people can't even see who the scum is, so hopped up on religion and propaganda and so dumbed down on toxic food and poisons in the water and the air and the EM spectrum. . . They blame the left or the right, the slaves blame the slaves when they should be tarring and feathering the psychotic lunatics who are actually pulling the switches, robbing the public blind. But nobody can seem to reach consensus because there are enough stupid slaves still believing the lies. And so we play our video games and drive on third world roads and generally pretend we're not in a state of decay. Marvelous.
Me, though. . . I'm a lot more pissed off than I need to be. Fed up on other people's self-destructive stupidity. I have trouble accepting that kids need to burn themselves in order to learn. I have trouble distancing myself emotionally from the giant mess all the muggle/hobbits have made of the world.
-FL