At least it doesn't take the skin off your ass...quickly

If you visit American City...How does that lyric go again?

That law requires communities to deliver safe tap water to local residents. But since 2004, the water provided to more than 49 million people has contained illegal concentrations of chemicals like arsenic or radioactive substances like uranium, as well as dangerous bacteria often found in sewage.

So, we're watching our infrastructure crumble around us. In China, you don't drink the tap water unless you have a death wish. Here, we brag about our water and air and wonder why we have to clean things up...and, that e coli might be headed for you, not from Jack in the Box, but the water company. We're not aspiring to China's growth rate; we're aspiring to China's standard of living.

It used to be common to compare states and for local politicians to say, "At least we're not Mississippi." Well, Cletus, Mississippi has a lot more going for it's civic society these days than California. We used to brag about our technology and our infrastructure. Shanghai has a Magleev train. California has a plan that's been scrapped. Ten years or so ago, my boss' husband who was in his 70s came down with a terrible case of e coli...from the local water. It didn't shorten his life appreciably, since he died in his late 80s. But still -- we weren't in Calcutta, damn it, they were in Olympia, Washington. Absurd.

Oh yeah, this is how it goes.

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