Collapse does not need to be complete or
sudden. Collapse tends to be a process, not an event.
Collapse
begins when you can't find any doctors willing to accept Medicaid payments,
when the potholes don't get filled even when voters approve millions of dollars
in new taxes, and when kids aren't learning anything remotely useful or
practical despite the school board raising tens of millions of dollars in
additional property taxes.
Collapse begins when real
reform becomes impossible.
