DEFERRED MAINTENANCE & DUMBASSES

Where Universities, municipalities, states and the Federal government choose to spend their money matters. You can spend it on useless liberal arts bullshit, on gold plated pensions for union teachers, on school lunches for the FSA, on inner city mural programs, on diversity training, or on wars around the globe. Or, you can maintain your existing ancient infrastructure before it explodes.

A rupture of 93-year-old water pipe led to massive flooding on the campus of University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) and parts of Sunset Boulevard, Tuesday, July 29. The floods which gushed about 75,000 gallons (283,906 liters) of water per minute damaged about a hundred cars and five buildings.

COULD JOURNALISTS BE ANY STUPIDER?