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Goddamn clown mayor of Champaign

Started by merithyn, April 19, 2010, 08:53:12 AM

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Caliga

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ulmont

Quote from: Oexmelin on April 20, 2010, 07:44:32 AM
Quote from: Caliga on April 20, 2010, 07:25:09 AM
When low class, blue-collar, uneducated idiots are put in charge of things like, say, budgets, hilarity often ensues. :cool:

How would you characterize what happens when high class, white collar, educated wiseguys are put in charge of things like, say, budgets ?

SEC v. Goldman Sachs.

Malthus

Quote from: Oexmelin on April 20, 2010, 07:44:32 AM
Quote from: Caliga on April 20, 2010, 07:25:09 AM
When low class, blue-collar, uneducated idiots are put in charge of things like, say, budgets, hilarity often ensues. :cool:

How would you characterize what happens when high class, white collar, educated wiseguys are put in charge of things like, say, budgets ?

The difference is in orders of magnitude.  :lol:
The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane—Marcus Aurelius

The Minsky Moment

Quote from: ulmont on April 20, 2010, 08:40:07 AM
Quote from: Oexmelin on April 20, 2010, 07:44:32 AM
Quote from: Caliga on April 20, 2010, 07:25:09 AM
When low class, blue-collar, uneducated idiots are put in charge of things like, say, budgets, hilarity often ensues. :cool:

How would you characterize what happens when high class, white collar, educated wiseguys are put in charge of things like, say, budgets ?

SEC v. Goldman Sachs.

Congress sets the SEC's budget, and they are not high class.
We have, accordingly, always had plenty of excellent lawyers, though we often had to do without even tolerable administrators, and seen destined to endure the inconvenience of hereafter doing without any constructive statesmen at all.
--Woodrow Wilson