The Whitehall Ledger - Serving Southern Jefferson County in the Great State of Montana

Dear Editor,

Another fine piece from Jon Goff at Montana Decides (The Long Green Mile, 10-19-22.)

I was struck by this line: “benefits (or lack thereof) are rarely considered or challenged due to the assumption that all public expenditures are always worthy without question.”

Why might this be the case?

To my eye, we have lived our entire lives in an ever-more-corrupted system. We’re collectively sitting on top of generations if not centuries of political malfeasance, corporate and financial shenanigans, a two-tiered justice system, mainstream media mayhem, a cultural collapse of mean...