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[QUOTE="Scooch, post: 1055176, member: 628"]
OK, I fundamentally disagree.  Let's say this thing becomes an obvious albatross, you can vote out a few of the people who had a hand in it.  Wonderful.  That doesn't mean the public gets their hundreds of millions of dollars back, or isn't stuck with a lousy tax deal for years into the future.  But you got it done, goshdarnit, so huzzah!

Here's the thing... the people who founded our democracy wanted things to take time!  They wanted the gears of public discourse to grind slowly, so that rash decisions were less easy to be made.  What is so admirable about ramming through a secret deal?  Because it took a couple years less than had the process been more transparent?  We're talking about a huge use of public dollars AND an ongoing deal that has decades of implications.  Maybe taking a couple extra years to do it is a good thing?

Some of the same people who in this case, and in the Syracuse case, are the ones lauding speed and secrecy, are the same people who are always bitching about waste and accountability in government.  You can't have it both ways,  but people want to because they're hypocrites.  People should at least OWN that.
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