Greenfield writing in Sultan Knish brought up a subject and memories which has always been a sore point with me and that is the Pananma Canal...One of the reasons I prefered Reagan over Ford and was running around getting signatures for his first primary run.
I wish Greenfield didn’t use that example because we lost it. Now the Chicoms have a huge stake in its operation perhaps that’s what Greenfield was aluding to. But didn’t conclude his opus with that conclusion although Piers Morgan is about as bad.
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>>I wish Greenfield didn’t use that example because we lost it. Now the Chicoms have a huge stake in its operation perhaps that’s what Greenfield was aluding to. But didn’t conclude his opus with that conclusion although Piers Morgan is about as bad.
I see the piece being not about the loss, but the lack of any enthusiasm, and perhaps even ability, to build great projects anymore due to the misdirection of resources into “entitlement” programs and the bureaucracy supposedly required to administer them.
Living in an ethnic Chinese dominated country like Thailand, it’s hard for me to even say that word “entitlement” - it’s a completely foreign concept here. People certainly want their freebies, but there’s no sense of being entitled to them.