Much of the routine trade and investment between China and America is entirely appropriate and in America’s interest. But inserting the Chinese Communist Party into America’s pay-to-play system and its economic development strategy isn’t just crossing a line. It’s a leap into an abyss of stupidity.
The asbestos disaster in Philly schools is another reason to ask if we are seeing a failure of democracy, as Ben Franklin warned us (he said no democracy can last forever because people will keep voting themselves raises and eventually the republic will go bankrupt). Philly schools is out of options–the buildings are past their expiration date, there’s no money to fix them, and any new tax money will go to pensions. The 2020 Board meetings are going to be pretty crazy.
https://thenotebook.org/articles/2020/01/02/new-year-opens-with-protests-concerns-about-health-conditions-in-schools/