"There are men, in all ages, who mean to exercise power usefully; but who mean to exercise it. They mean to govern well; but they mean to govern. They promise to be kind masters; but they mean to be masters." Daniel Webster

Saturday, January 31, 2009

Our Pain Is Washington's Gain

Joel Kotkin explains how national crises are good for the political class.

Radley Balko shows how the counties surrounding D.C. are some of the wealthiest in the nation.

I think I've mentioned before that some of the local poobahs have been reading Richard Florida's work on how cities thrive. Kotkin has been Florida's sharpest critic, and I hope they also read his work as well.

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