Posted on 02/08/2007 7:37:27 PM PST by flixxx
CHICAGO — Eighteen years ago, Richard M. Daley went into the family business, which is the business of being mayor of Chicago. Back then, he hardly could have imagined that he would become an accomplished practitioner of today's new wrinkle in public finance, here and elsewhere.
He says his father, who died in 1976, would approve, but one wonders.
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"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
I's love to see the Feds do this. Then concentrate on doing what's left well.
I imagine that in the next 99 years some politician will come along and put the city heavily in debt again.
The feds will need to sell off a lot of western land to get out of the various entitlement crises.
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