Sometimes I just let someone else do the heavy lifting (The Next Mayor)

The demands of website construction and video editing have kept me from being able to sink my teeth into the Fattah Opportunity Agenda but I did want to acknowledge the great discussion about it going on over at YPP.

There's some serious back-and-forth going on among supporters of various candidates. Some are also a little more skeptical than others of Fattah's plan to lease out the airport. One commenter also pointed out the entertainment value of the "Comments" to the original Inquirer story. I've long been a fan of the comments of Inquirer on-line users... some of the dumbest sequences of words this side of Milton Street.

Anyway, give the thread a read if you have about a half hour. If I have time later today, I'll try to put up some of my own thoughts.

(And if you're looking from some more classic reader feedback, along the same lines as Inquirer commenters, check out the Letters to the Editor in the Northeast Times. These people actually put their real names to their thoughts!)

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Dave

Doesn't the city already spend something like a billion dollars to fund various social services agencies? We already had a big scandal at DHS over poor oversight and bad management. Now Fattah wants to build a huge, parallel social services framework and fund it by selling the airport? Will he eliminate DHS and the other agencies before he does this?

Posted by Dave | February 21, 2007 2:30 PM

sheth

I am wondering why so many people are up in arms about this Fattah plan. It's just a proposal AND he didnt even win yet. It's farfetched at best and will likely never be implemented as described. Why dont people wait until he wins (if he does) before going crazy over this plan to help the poor? People are so concerned about the poor getting more money that they are bent out of shape over some vague proposal that is little more than fanstasy at this point.

Posted by sheth | February 22, 2007 8:54 AM

You don't have a problem with people proposing farfetched fantasies in an attempt to get elected? If this isn't likely to get implemented, then what is? What will this guy do if elected? What about the fact that the city already has a billion dollars a year worth of social services departments that it runs?

Posted by Dave | February 22, 2007 9:06 AM

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