Is America Great?

How did it get that way? By people working together. To work together, people must be moved to cooperation for a shared objective. There lies the intractable problem. Some people wish to render to the "guvmint" as little as possible of their wealth; apparently their recollection of how they obtained this wealth is that they gathered up gold nuggets among the manna that came from heaven. There is a departure from good sense here that acts as though God will maintain tax-free the superhighways he has given us, along with the free military complex. Others of us understand that our elected legislators levied taxes to pay for filling the inevitable potholes, to feed our troops in Afghanistan and buy the ammunition they so freely use, to fuel their humvees and to pay the salaries of cavalierly congresspersons who swore an oath to a radical of apparent Swedish background to obey him a rather than to uphold their oath of office and to pass the laws that will protect the less rich 99% of the citizenry and begin to retrieve the shameful gains of the super-rich. Grover Norquist must have learned a lot from Mephistofele