Untimely Dispatches from the Neighborhood of the Unrepresented & Inarticulate; Anecdotes that Pedal and Coast Through the Boot-Print of 20th Century American Urbanism
The Business People We're Supposed to Subsidize This story shows us one of them. Note how the pay-to-play government that DiLiberto ran in Eastlake, OH, mirrors the one waiting to have its lid blown off in Washington DC. Note, too, that the "jobs" that were supposed to be created--the jobs that are always supposed to be created, no matter to whom the graft goes--failed to survive.
posted by Kossuth @ 3:25 AM
In a book that collects calumnies against Kossuth and attempts to discredit him in the eyes of his American admirers, Bartholomew Szemere, president of the Hungarian Cabinet formed in 1849 writes: "Kossuth loved his life better than he did his country. . . .Is not that man like Don Quixote? It seemed, his luck and reason left him at the same time, but despite all, I never expected him to be as stupid, as that."
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