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To: RobinMasters
to run for mayor of Chicago

Won't that be sort of like having Capone as mayor, as well as head bootlegger?

12 posted on 09/22/2010 1:13:56 PM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson ("Every nation has the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
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To: Homer_J_Simpson
Won't that be sort of like having Capone as mayor, as well as head bootlegger?

Not at all. Big Al Capone's organization ran at a profit, even during the depression. Everybody got the goods and services that they wanted. He was certainly no fan of the IRS. Free market capitalism was encouraged. He made St. Valentines day something to remember way before Hallmark or DeBeers go into the game. And the only people that got hurt were the insiders.

Here in Chicago we have been so beaten down that we no longer even dream about honest government. We would just like to have some more competent crooks for a change.
17 posted on 09/22/2010 1:25:20 PM PDT by GonzoGOP (There are millions of paranoid people in the world and they are all out to get me.)
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