Waste

I saw a video today of a vacant and abandoned highschool (just found out it's in my city!) that was built in 1991/2 and disbanded in 2014 because of a drop in the number of student population.  What bothered me was that the school board then built a brand new highschool just 3 miles away and at the cost of 36 million dollars to the tax payers.  What also bothered me was that nothing seemed to have been salvaged from the old school.  We have become the most wasteful society in the world.

Seeing pictures of this massive school before and after it was vandalized is shocking.  We know that someone made a lot of money by closing a perfectly good school and rebuilding another one just 3 miles away.  We can see how so many things in the old school still held value but was just left to rot.  The question is why have we become the kind of society that can commit such wasteful acts when there are people in the world who are starving or with nowhere to live?

I guess the problem lies in who we elect or select to run our country.  Too much power in the wrong hands can destroy us.  I also see a huge problem with how we allow small groups of people to determine what our value system should be.  Maybe we really are sheep being led to the slaughter and maybe there is no way out.