"dumb things" like dirt roads

This is our second winter here, so I am feeling more free to whine about some of the dumb infrastructure stuff in our area.

I’m certain this will be read as a political rant, but it is really just intended to be a reality check.

1. It’s called asphalt. It goes everywhere. Why is it that Oakland and Macomb counties are so rich yet they haven’t bothered to pave the roads? I’m not talking about upkeep, I’m talking about paving busy roads that are completely impassable. Isn’t this a safety hazard?
2. Rich white people who live in the burbs but like to think they are in the country. If you live in Macomb County and you don’t have fields planted or harvest an orchard, you are suburban not rural. Get over it. Stop fighting commercial building, shopping centers, and multi-family housing. It shows that you are bigoted and elitist and the polls show you vote democrat… I’ll remind you that you aren’t that rich to be so elite. It annoys me to hear this argument from people who live in brand new homes on dirt roads. “Keep our township rural” is what they cry. What it really seems to be is rich white folk trying to keep minorities out. They figure if they keep multi-family housing out and dirt roads they won’t have to allow for diversity. Why don’t they just burn a few crosses while they are at it. This is America baby… Diversity is our strength. Democrats give all that lip about wanting a strong economy but don’t want to see their community have any elements of this at all. They just want rich white people and that’s it. That’s not a strong economy, who is going to sustain this economy when the inevitable happens and the auto industry flees the unionized north for the cheaper labor south?
3. It’s called salt, put it down while it snows not afterwards. I am amazed that such smart people seem completely inept at snow removal. People around here live in denial that we even get snow and act like Floridians when we get it. It’s a shame that schools close for no reason. Two or three inches of snow shouldn’t result in a disaster! It should take more than a foot overnight to shut things down.
4. Dirt roads are unsafe, not a status quo. This goes along the lines of the rich white exclusion thing. Why do people live in established areas and still have roads like they are in rural Columbia? I mean give it a rest. Every single road in this county should be paved. The argument from silence is “who will pay for this?” It’s called an assessment, you send the landowners a bill. You want to build a $500,000 house in the middle of nowhere, unless you are declaring that “private estate” it’s own independent nation, the municipality has a right to send you a bill.
5. canceling things because of poor infrastructure is a shame not “just how it is.” I am sick of hearing this. It can be fixed and it should be. It’s time this area stopped pretending to be in the dark ages and dealt with some reality. You don’t “pre-cancel” school because it might snow. We live in Michigan and we should know how to deal with the weather… It comes every year!