Do some real research

Regarding the editorial in Wednesday’s paper bemoaning the huge national debt we’re all straddled with: Rather than the pat response offered that debt is just bad and going to lead us to ruin, perhaps the news desk at the Democrat-Gazette could really dig into the last 40 years of government spending. The last I looked, that’s 24 years of Republican administration and 16 of Democratic.

Do some real research and discover why after all these years of debt accumulation our roads, bridges, sewage, and drinking water systems are still all disintegrating. Why is our education system still chronically underfunded and health care exorbitantly expensive? Why is it that our work force is apparently more productive than it’s ever been but $15/hour pay is going to ruin small business? Why, why, why?

I mean, isn’t the real story that so much money is circulating through the economy and the government but still not solving our common problems? I mean, it’s ending up somewhere, isn’t it?

What was the line from the movie? “Follow the money!” Now that would be worth reading, instead of regurgitated ideology. Who knows, it might get somebody a Pulitzer.

JEFF REDDEKOPP

Fayetteville