The Edifice Complex
Posted by BrianJohn Fund of the Wall Street Journal takes a look at how members of Congress use taxpayer dollars to build monuments to themselves. He didn’t even mention Alabama’s own Richard Shelby. You don’t have to travel far here before you run into some structure that bears the good senator’s name even though you and I paid the bill.
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July 21st, 2008 at 2:37 am
According to Mr. Fund: “Until roughly the 1960s, people had to die before a grateful nation memorialized them in granite.”
I’m all in favor of reviving that old statute.
July 21st, 2008 at 9:37 am
Always chuckle when I drive by Trent Lott International Airport in Hurley or read the street signs around the B’ham Race Track and see those paved roads going no where.
July 22nd, 2008 at 10:19 am
I would love for someone to introduce a bill that makes it Illegal to name a building after any living person if taxpayer dollars are used. Of course this discussion should not be necessary. The politicians’ lack of any class is amazing.
In Alaska, seems like everything is named after Ted Stevens now.
July 23rd, 2008 at 5:31 pm
[...] Flashpoint: The Edifice Complex You don’t have to travel far here before you run into some structure that bears [Richard Shelby’s] name even though you and I paid the bill. [...]