We can now add bursting residential water pipes and thousands of homes without water to ruptured water mains and traffic jams, to chunks of concrete crashing down from slowly collapsing bridges and to the other proof that our infrastructure is falling apart ("Residents' frustration mounts over persistent water outages," Feb. 26).
All of this will cost lots of money to fix. Government is going to have to fix it, and we are going to have to pay for it. Or things will get worse. The good news is that this reminds us of what living in a free, civil society is all about. Yes, we need to make government work better and be wiser about what wars it plunges us into, and yes, we need to fix the tax code, and yes, corporations and billionaires need to pay more, but, in one way or another, we all do.
Politicians who tell us that reducing government and cutting taxes will cure all ills are not being forthright. But then, their water pipes have probably not burst.
Bradley Alger, Baltimore