Getty Center
The Getty people, with our blessing, spent $1 billion on land and facilities and, in one year, bought three old oil paintings ranging in price from $22.5 million to $26 million (June 21). Down the hill, 10 miles in any direction, children go to bed hungry, live in cars, garages and roach-infested tenements, go to school in hot, overcrowded, rundown buildings, and study worn-out textbooks. Gangs of dropped-out, teenage thugs terrorize whole neighborhoods.
Something is very wrong with our value and priority systems. Quoting Pogo, “We have met the enemy, and he is us.”
JIM BABBITT
Manhattan Beach
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