Monday, November 30, 2015

Truest statement of the week

While the US war machine rages globally, the infrastructure inside the US is in a decrepit state. Sinkholes are mysteriously appearing, swallowing whole houses in the process; families are forced to boil their water because local clean water systems are in a state of disrepair. Rampant mining inside the US has created new emergencies like earthquakes in places totally unaccustomed to them. Bridges are crumbling. In fact, civil engineers most recently (2013) gave overall US infrastructure a grade D+.

--  Cynthia McKinney, "Obama Needs to 'Pivot' to the Crisis at Home" (BLACK AGENDA REPORT).