LivingMemento

LivingMemento t1_ixaeh82 wrote

Ed Flynn was a surprisingly decent councilor. Then a Nazi-adjacent person was elected to the council (Erin Murphy—her family literally invented “birtherism”) and he is going full Gung Ho with that withered spur of Boston hate. Really kind of sad.

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LivingMemento t1_iwqcycf wrote

Years ago one of the local public radio stations had a story about it. Basically we pay the contractors to build and we pay them for any necessary repairs. It pays to build bad roads. In Europe they make the contractors fix bad roads within a reasonable number of years from initial completion.

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LivingMemento t1_istmg2z wrote

That was the technique the Mafia used although they had respect for the workers. Wall Street then followed the Mafia model without the basic human decency. Private equity is usually best explained using the lessons from Goodfellows or the Sopranos sporting goods store episodes.

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