United States begins Atlas Shrugs
Comments (0) The Wall Street Journal reports in an article Roads to Ruin: Towns Rip Up the Pavement that communities across the USA are allowing paved roads to fall back into gravel paths – our once great nation is beginning the slide into the dystopian state that Ayn Rand predicted in her novel, Atlas Shrugged
a sampling of the article -
Paved roads, historical emblems of American achievement, are being torn up across rural America and replaced with gravel or other rough surfaces as counties struggle with tight budgets and dwindling state and federal revenue. State money for local roads was cut in many places amid budget shortfalls.
In Michigan, at least 38 of the 83 counties have converted some asphalt roads to gravel in recent years. Last year, South Dakota turned at least 100 miles of asphalt road surfaces to gravel. Counties in Alabama and Pennsylvania have begun downgrading asphalt roads to cheaper chip-and-seal road, also known as “poor man’s pavement.” Some counties in Ohio are simply letting roads erode to gravel.
Read is all here and then ask – Who is John Gault?
