You Get What You Pay For

 

It is odd the way many people think. They know that in order to have a nice house or a nice car or a nice whatever, they have to pay for it. People know, as the saying goes, "you get what you pay for". Still when it comes to having a safe and functional society with educated and healthy citizens, they believe that it should somehow magically appear and that they shouldn't have to invest in it. Still the thinking of many people gets even stranger. They believe that those that have benefited the most from society, the super wealthy, should have to invest the least in it. Many people believe that it is somehow wrong to have wealthy corporations and those that run them pay the same percentage in taxes as the average citizen. But it is really true that you get what you pay for. When you fail to invest in a functional and compassionate society then you get what we have at present here in America. A collapsing system in which the cities are crumbling and the people are becoming more and more desperate with very little opportunity and very little help. Yep, you really do get what you pay for. Grant