http://archive2.mrc.org/taxonomy/term/3136/all en http://archive2.mrc.org/commentary/just-say-no-state-bailouts <div class="field field-type-nodereference field-field-source"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <div class="field-label-inline-first"> By</div> <a href="/author/dan-kennedy">Dan Kennedy</a> </div> </div> </div> <p>The New York Times recently quoted Mayor Don Plusquelic of Akron, Ohio, in an article about city mayors contemplating and threatening bankruptcy as the only way out of their monster deficits - save, of course, an Obama bail-out.</p> <p>"Let me go back to the world I lived in two or three years ago, where people would come in and say, hey, we need this new park or this new recreation facility and I could say 'OK, we'll do that'," Plusquelic said in the Jan. 22 article.</p><p><a href="http://archive2.mrc.org/commentary/just-say-no-state-bailouts" target="_blank">read more</a></p> Commentary MRC Business article Austerity back boy broke burning city cut debt dreams fact family federal finally flushing ivory jobs lot make mayors money monster obama Ohio people plusquelic president program save Stimulus tower wood years Sat, 29 Jan 2011 03:11:00 +0000 admin 30039 at http://archive2.mrc.org