A Good Slogan Long Sung
I’m not saying “Build Back Better” is a slogan I originated... ...It just struck me that I said it loud and clear in July of 2008 in my endless blog. That was just after the vicious floods in the spring of 2008. They made a huge mess of Iowa and so many other places. The phrase was (first?) used big time in 2009 by former President Bill Clinton while referring to Haiti after the political upheaval and storms of 2008. The U.N. picked it up in 2015. It’s a good, common sense slogan. Luckily (Luck, HA!) Most of what I was talking about then was “hard infrastructure" and the passed and signed Infrastructure Bill addresses that and more. Thank You Lord. But that’s only two of the legs on the three legged American stool, the other part of the infrastructure is the WorkForce, and ours is as worn out, over-used and neglected as the creaky old bridges. That stool is rickety, and it makes no sense to just fix part of it. So the fact that the contemporary Build Back Better puts