tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22563831.post9005794105428868314..comments2024-02-15T15:25:04.287-08:00Comments on Losing the War on Humor: Mayor Daley Sells Out Midway Airport2Truthyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06621258620190540140noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22563831.post-646192388951960332013-02-23T15:30:27.653-08:002013-02-23T15:30:27.653-08:00"Investment" is one thing. Overall manag..."Investment" is one thing. Overall management and regulation is another. <br /><br />As is the whole *privatization of public programs* mantra goes- whether it be airports, education, highways, health care-- investments from the private sector attach strings for control at the expense of expertise, much need safety regulation/oversight and overall common good. <br /><br />In an ideal world, people from the private sector would view investments (here or abroad) in public programs as opportunities to ENRICH both the people with expertise in their fields who run them alongside themselves. In an ideal world, such private investors would be hubris and greed and arrogance free griftless and graftless respectable people who knew how to respect others. <br />Such would be the ultimate win/win public-private "partnership" scenario that would regulate the private sector cater to the expertise of those working public sector professionals in their chosen fields, not the other way around.<br />Fat chance, skinny.2Truthyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06621258620190540140noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22563831.post-30943169183282985972008-11-26T16:46:00.000-08:002008-11-26T16:46:00.000-08:00Maybe it's not such a bad idea, that is, if it wer...Maybe it's not such a bad idea, that is, if it were managed properly. That's the million dollar question.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22563831.post-44031856953689229722008-10-01T19:08:00.000-07:002008-10-01T19:08:00.000-07:00You can't tell me that 99 years is not a SALE....You can't tell me that 99 years is not a SALE...<BR/><BR/>What makes anyone believe that any the loot will go to infrastructure (except by *the books*? Plus, Daley's got a huge political machine to feed first. Like the 11th Floating Casino License tied up by Blago (which Hiz Honah thinks is righfully that of the "People's Park," e.g, Meigs).<BR/><BR/>Ok, so it MAY go for infrastructure -- but the money now allocated for infrastructure will go elsewhere! Unless, of course, you consider the development and investment friends of Meigs park & Amphitheater to be "infrastructure."2Truthyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06621258620190540140noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22563831.post-45717834901379726212008-10-01T15:45:00.000-07:002008-10-01T15:45:00.000-07:00Let's see 2.5 Billion for 99 years is24 million do...Let's see 2.5 Billion for 99 years is<BR/>24 million dollars a year. That's not enough! The land along under the airport would lease for more than that! Plus, with inflation, toward the end of the lease, they'll be paying just a few million in today's dollars!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com