Knightskye
09-08-2009, 02:45 PM
http://www.reason.com/blog/show/135933.html
I like Matt Welch's articles. There's also a quote from a Chicago Sun Times article that will make you laugh yet shake your fist at the screen.
"We called all these community meetings, did these retreats, and at the end of the day we had some great photographs, a couple of pamphlets, and not one job," he recalled. "It was a complete and utter failure." Jones went back to the foundation and asked for another two hundred and fifteen thousand dollars, which he got.
"Then we wasted it all again," he said. "Because we still didn't know what we were doing." Gradually, Jones came to see that businesses weren't going to locate in Oakland because some well-meaning nonprofit asked them to. Instead of doing freelance economic-development work, he began to think that he should focus his efforts on public policy. [...]
I think this is a much better reason for him to resign than the petition he signed, or the name he called Republicans.
I like Matt Welch's articles. There's also a quote from a Chicago Sun Times article that will make you laugh yet shake your fist at the screen.
"We called all these community meetings, did these retreats, and at the end of the day we had some great photographs, a couple of pamphlets, and not one job," he recalled. "It was a complete and utter failure." Jones went back to the foundation and asked for another two hundred and fifteen thousand dollars, which he got.
"Then we wasted it all again," he said. "Because we still didn't know what we were doing." Gradually, Jones came to see that businesses weren't going to locate in Oakland because some well-meaning nonprofit asked them to. Instead of doing freelance economic-development work, he began to think that he should focus his efforts on public policy. [...]
I think this is a much better reason for him to resign than the petition he signed, or the name he called Republicans.