Pot Holes

The thing about "every man for himself" attitudes is that sooner or later, every man is not for himself and depends on others. Case in point:

Mayor Jim Brainard's constituents have raised a common complaint this year: It's about the wretched condition of the streets provided by Carmel's poor neighbor to the south.

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Scott Fadness can relate. The Fishers mayor regularly fields complaints about Indianapolis' crumbling roads from his constituents who venture into Marion County for work and play. 

Well, cry me a river. Do you know why I don't have any problems, whatsoever, with the state of Fishers' streets? I don't go there. I chose not to live there and work in Indy; I chose to live somewhere that I could support with my own tax money (as opposed to expecting others to support me).

I can't help but chuckle, somewhere beneath my seething surface, when I hear people from Hamilton Co. talk about all of the "freeloaders" that want to "take" from them, the "makers."