Sometimes I wonder. Bread, circuses, and foreign wars!
When I read about all the jockeying to get the public to pay for yet another stadium in the Twin Cities, I wondered about our future.
We are paying a lot for welfare for the less fortunate and even for the more fortunate. We are paying huge sums to athletes and even more to build huge, luxurious stadiums for games. And we fight wars around the globe; wars that hardly touch the vast majority of our population.
And many of the extremely wealthy are going to extremes to not pay for any of this. If and when our empire collapses, will these same people plunder the public buildings for materials to build their country villas?
