[lbo-talk] Now That the Factories Are Closed, It’s Tee Time in Benton Harbor, Mich.

[Michael Smith]

On Thu, 15 Dec 2011 19:19:33 -0500
Wojtek S <wsoko52 at gmail.com> wrote:


> http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/18/magazine/benton-harbor.html?_r=1&hp
> 
>   an
> unelected state appointee will be running your city until further
> notice."
> 
> [WS:] A glimpse to the not so distant future of the Etats-Unis.

Future? This has been present reality for a couple of 
generations now. The ones I think of are New York-centric -- 
Robert Moses, the MTA -- but examples certainly abound 
elsewhere, or so I hear.  
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Michael J. Smith
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Any proposition that seems self-evident 
is almost certainly false.