World-building work awaits

For 10,000 years people have pooled their resources to create this wonderful enterprise we call civilization. We’ve used public funding to create the trillions of dollars worth of infrastructural, institutional and peace-keeping legacies we all take for granted. It creates genuine joy and pride for each generation that adds its golden touch to this wondrous accumulation.

The building of civilization is an ongoing process that can perpetually employ everyone for as long as we have the will to make it a high priority.

Somehow we’ve gotten off track in the past few decades and have been detracted by those who would have us redirect our energies and resources to their own private purposes. They’ve given our highest ideals derogatory names like communism, big government and the welfare state and have shamed us into minimizing the resources we direct to the public good.

They tell us to keep cutting taxes so they can make more jobs for us, though they don’t make more jobs but are gathering all the resources and power for their own hedonistic objectives. It’s time for us voters to come to our senses and once again put the engine that drives civilization back on its tracks.

Mickey Thompson

Spokane