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November 12, 2003

Car 54, Where Are You?

The city of Pittsburgh is bankrupt because of typical government mismanagement and incompetence. (Now the mayor wants to tax the suburbs to bail him out.) Of course, as soon as the crunch began, the city cut back on the most essential services first so as to increase sympathy for the cause of tax increases. (Eliminating the hundreds or thousands of worthless, invisible, paper-pushing bureaucrats would not have had the same PR value.) One of the services cut back was the police department, in particular by closing a station in the city's West End, which all the critics insisted was sure to lead to an increase in crime.

Ten weeks have passed since the police station closed; and lo and behold, crime has not increased! The only real problem encountered is that the cops aren't hanging out in the coffee shop, munching doughnuts (and we're supposed to believe that's an unfair stereotype!). Otherwise, life goes on as usual. Hey . . . maybe we don't need the government's "protection" after all!

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