Who's entitled now?

Obama's infrastructure argument is easily refuted by what is essentially a controlled social experiment. Roads and schools are the constant. What's variable is the energy, enterprise, risk-taking, hard work and genius of the individual. It is therefore precisely those individual characteristics, not the communal utilities, that account for the different outcomes. This is from Krauthammer. 

True. How true!

 But what we have is the unwillingness of one entitled class to contribute to roads and schools, to  the constant, to contribute in a fair way. The genius of the individuals that feel entitled to infinite riches. Seems to me the one-percenters  are claiming and feel more entitled than the poor.  The risk taking individual that doesn't care to pay the communal utilities bill.

Socio 101

Seems to me that nowadays the sociological imagination is being displaced by the environmental imagination where people try to situate themselves in the history of  Earth.   Sustainability  is not likely to shed light  on their biography, condition, problems or malaise,but  it gives them the opportunity to feel contributing to society. (without solving the problem of child poverty.)

Mortua est

The coffin is lowered with lots of attention and care. We dump soil on it. When they die we call them cherished and beloved. Is it because we are afraid they will haunt us?