a country that once amazed the world with its visionary investments in transportation, from the Erie Canal to the Interstate Highway System, is now in the process of unpaving itself-in a number of states, local governments are breaking up roads they can no longer afford to maintain, and returning them to gravel. We're told that we have no choice, that basic government functions are no longer affordable. |
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Sheila Samples is an Oklahoma writer and a former civilian US Army Public Information Officer. She is a Managing Editor for OpEd News, and a regular contributor for a variety of Internet sites.