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| Chris Hedges |
WASHINGTON, D.C.—The deterioration of the nation’s public
transportation, like the deterioration of health care, education, social
services, public utilities, bridges and roads, is part of the
relentless seizing and harvesting of public resources and programs by
corporations. These corporations are steadily stripping the American
infrastructure. Public-sector unions are being broken. Wages and
benefits are being slashed. Workers are forced to put in longer hours in
unsafe workplaces, often jeopardizing public safety. The communities
that need public services most are losing them, and where public service
is continued it is reduced or substandard and costlier. Only the
security and surveillance network and the military are permitted to
function with efficiency in their role as the guardians of corporate
power. We now resemble the developing world: We have small pockets of
obscene wealth, ailing infrastructure and public service, huge swaths of
grinding poverty, and militarized police and internal security.
Chris Hedges: Sweatshops on Wheels - Chris Hedges' Columns - Truthdig
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