Has anyone noticed? The county highway departments don't have any money for salt or fuel for trucks. Most states are broke. State budgets across the land are reducing the amount of money for education. Prisoners are being released into communities before their release dates because states don't have the money to house them.

College and professional coaches in football and basketball stalk referees and threaten them with violence. Federal, state, and county roads are in terrible shape - pothole traps everywhere. Thousands of people have lost their life savings to corporate greed. Thousands of people have been laid off and can't find work.