"The overall grade for the nation's infrastructure is again a D and the cost to bring it up to good condition has risen to $2.2 trillion. In more than a decade, the United States has made no measurable progress in improving either the condition or performance of our roads, bridges, water systems or other vital infrastructure when viewed in aggregate."
American Society of Civil Engineers, 2009 Report Card on U.S. Infrastructure
Read it and weep. This the nation's infrastructure report card from the American Society of Civil Engineers. We're not doing too well. Maybe our fearless leaders of the last 40 years forgot their glasses or got into some of that Indian Hemp that George Washington talked about. Without any doubt, they were not paying attention to the fundamentals.
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A man from southern England posted a help wanted ad in his local newspaper looking for a drinking partner for his elderly father.
The job will pay roughly $14USD an hour and expenses for the lucky employee to take 88 year-old Jack Hammond from his nursing home to a local pub.
The chosen drinking partners are a retired doctor and former military man.
"Dad's now going to be going down to the pub several times a week -- three with his new friends and twice with me," Mike Hammond told The Times on Thursday. "I want to give him some of his old life back."
"The pay is generous. The experience is priceless."
The Leadership Institute is hiring 70(!) representatives to "help conservative students break the left-wing monopoly on college campuses."
"Benefits" include:
Field reps receive $2,500 per month salary, plus $600 per week housing allowance, as well as additional allowances for cell phone use, recruitment expenses, gas, and more.
A free laptop is yours to use throughout the semester. It becomes yours to keep upon successful completion of the program.
Your employment with LI as a field rep is resumé gold. Field reps use the experience and connections they gain from LI’s National Field Representative Program to launch rewarding careers...
Jesse just wrote a great article for CP.org, which got me to revisit a topic that I love discussing: the idea of selling out.
I graduated with a degree in business (from a pretty pretentious B-school) and am now working for a non-profit... kind of the opposite track this book suggests (and from most expectations). But I think it was a desire to get that pragmatic education and bring a different skill set to my future work with non-profits, which I knew I'd eventually work with.
The Trap paints an America hijacked by corporatist and short-sighted economic policies that now prohibit its youth from landing the meaningful occupations they crave.
Even a post-industrial American dream still needs matériel to survive.
So aspiring world-changers, are we all screwed? Is this anything new? And what can be done?
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