Tiny Pre-Coffee Rant

So the sewers are overwhelmed and the waters are being polluted with our own delusions. I'd like to thank Howard Jarvis and Grover Norquist and Bill Fucking Clinton and the DLC and Larry Summers and all the neo-liberals for this pie in the sky idea, that we can have roads and sewers and public school systems and prisons and finance systems and not pay for them.

This shit cocktail is for you, boys. We are now officially a third world country. Thanks.

( NYT On Sewage Infrastructure Failure )

In these sentiments, Sir, I agree to this Constitution with all its faults, if they are such; because I think a general Government necessary for us, and there is no form of Government but what may be a blessing to the people if well administered, and believe farther that this is likely to be well administered for a course of years, and can only end in Despotism, as other forms have done before it, when the people shall become so corrupted as to need despotic Government, being incapable of any other.

-- B. Franklin, 1787
http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/benfranklin1787.htm