Observer Wrote:
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> > The era of the
> > Neo-Robber Baron is upon us now!
> >
> > If so, then we are done for this time. Back
> then,
> > the Robber Baron was private, and could with
> > enough effort by the gov't, be brought under
> > control (Teddy Roosevelt style). But now, the
> > Robber Baron IS the government -
> county/regional
> > government in this case. If this sort of
> attitude
> > by gov't officials is allowed to stand without
> > firing them or dumping the politicians that
> > appointed them, then the citizens will have
> lost
> > control of their own government.
> >
> > Who then will now come to the rescue and make
> > things right? Nobody - certainly not by the
> > power of a corrupt and lawless government,
> anyhow!
> >
> >
> > Something to think about. . . . .
> >
> > OPB
>
> Nast in New York, Daley in Chicago, Curley in
> Boston, Pendergast(?) in Kansas City...
> Robber Baron governments in the US are nothing
> new.

I am sorry, I made a Small error here, Tweed was the boss in New York, Nast was the cartoonist who used the press to skewer him.