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I haven't studied the infrastructure of Tammany yet. As far as I can tell, this kind of political infrastructure was much better at training future national politicians than what we seem to be getting now. As corrupt as those orgs were, they produced people who had backbone and knew enough not to sellout to the enemy. Everybody has to say please and thankyou to the guy who about to kill you.

I've read a bit about the org that trained Truman, but I can't remember the name right now. People didn't go from a job lawyering into a governor level posbreastion under this political umbrella. They started out learning how to administer a small thing which also included getting something useful done. Then this person would be "promoted" and allowed to run for a higher political office.

What I'm trying to say is that one of our problems is that we have a middle clbutt economy with a lower non-ruling clbutt mentality. IOW, the people with the most money have no training nor knowledge about long term thinking, let alone how to do that thinking. How often do you hear middle-clbutt people talking about living paycheck-to-paycheck. This is lower clbutt atbreastude that hasn't been corrected.

For instance, only the lower clbutt and the upper clbutt understand about the importance of maintaining infrastructure and fixing things when they're just a little broke rather than waiting until it's too late. The second or third generation of middle clbutt have absolutely no idea about maintenance of the real stuff. They turn down funds to fix a dam but have no problems spending tons of money on frivilous things like a bridge to cut commute time by a couple of minutes.

We had an example in this state, Mbutt. If curious take a look at news reports about dam in Taunton, MA. Now it will the "federal government" who will refund "money lost" while the town was evacuated. This is getting to be a trend. New Orleans was a famous example. The atbreastude is "we'll wait with doing anything that takes money until it's almost too late and then the federal government will fix it for us".

It appears that it only took Taunton four days to make a new dam but the work was put off until the minutes before the town would have been wiped off the face of the Earth. The people who made these decisions to not fix the dams and levees are the group I used to call "new money". They have no idea how to run public political insbreastutions.

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