One of the
things The Frau loves most about Switzerland is hiking. The paths are plentiful
(60,000 km +) and pristine, and The Frau’s most recent experience last month
demonstrates just how pristine.
To the right is a
picture of the path to the Majingsee (near Leukerbad) around 10:30 a.m.
path at 3 p.m. |
The Salt
Creek Trail, a trail in the Chicago suburbs where The Frau likes to
inline skate, has been covered in leaves for the last few weeks, meaning she can
no longer skate on the trail. And last year, the La Grange Park District just couldn't seem to put in the effort to make their outdoor ice rink useable even one time during the winter. It’s times like these when she really
misses Switzerland.
In fact, it doesn’t
take much to feel like you’re living in a third world country after Switzerland.
The Frau swims at the local high school pool in her American suburb and they’ve
cleaned it once in the last year. Once. Someone in The Frau’s swim group told
her that sometimes the Department of Health shows up and closes the pool
down. Even the air vents in the room are so filthy that one of the swimmers
with asthma can no longer swim because of the room’s air quality.
This makes The
Frau wonder—why? Why can’t a school pool that’s in a wealthy suburb, for which
she pays the equivalent Swiss price to use (and for worse hours and service)
not be regularly cleaned? It’s in a school! Is care and cleanliness in America too much to
ask anymore?
Some might
say the problem is money, but The Frau pays more in American taxes than she
ever did in Swiss taxes. As she reads more and more books on political issues (Elizabeth's Warren's A Fighting Chance is a great one),
it’s clear that while the average American taxpayer pays more and more, they
get less and less for that honor. In the meantime, the billionaires are
building their own pools in their backyards while the rest of us have
access to a dirty pool twice a week for 1.5 hours beginning at 5:30 a.m. If
that’s not inequality in America, The Frau doesn’t know what is.
20 comments:
I hear you. We just returned from a trip to Australia and New Zealand, and I was so jealous ofthe cool stuff they had. All workers get a living wage and medical care is free. But of course they don't have a huge military sucking up half the public money.
Guess we Americans just don't deserve nice things.
Nope. Instead of fixing our own country, we insist on "fixing" the world. But we're at the point now where we can no longer afford to do this. Our own people need help and our infrastructure is crumbling.
Absolutely. Every time I go downtown I'm ashamed at how bad it looks. These things creep up on us.
Hi Chantal, I am confused why you call this an inequality issue? Perhaps it is simply a fiscal mismanagement situation on behalf of your school. Why do people continue to exude this sense of entitlement (your billionaire reference - "they have one,so should I"). In the US people expect the best of everything and don't want to pay for anything. Swiss taxes may be lower, but everything else cost 3 times as much as in the U.S (trade off). Perhaps whatever you pay for use of the pool is simply not sufficient to run the pool but the school doesn't want to raise the price for fear of backlash. In Switzerland they certainly would not think twice about raising prices if required. Not to mention that Switzerland is a tiny country so obviously easier to maintain. Although, I would agree that the US is in need of a major infrastructure overhaul.
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