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Ex-NFL player Troy Evans started a bus company in the Lakota, Ohio school district after it cut routes to save money.

The situation is bad: Rich people on Wall Street stole a bunch of money and crashed the economic system; regular people now have to face cuts and the loss of basic social services because the rich refuse to return any of the stolen wealth.

The interviewer in the video: She implies that the problem is not really the cuts but a lack of initiative on the part of individuals. According to her way of thinking, the former NFL player has not only taken the initiative to provide bus service in his underfunded community but is providing it for much less money than the expensive and wasteful government. This is a fiction. The NFL player tries to be somewhat realistic, but the interviewer pushes and pushes the fiction. This is a bad situation. This is CNN, not Fox News.

Charles Mudede—who writes about film, books, music, and his life in Rhodesia, Zimbabwe, the USA, and the UK for The Stranger—was born near a steel plant in Kwe Kwe, Zimbabwe. He has no memory...

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