Re:Detroit's fabled Packard plant gets makeover
by jerf on Tuesday May 16, 2017 @03:02PM
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Yeah. I'd love it if there was some way to somehow ban politicians from "prestige" projects. It's impossible, since they would be the ones that would do the banning, and they won't and can't. The last thing Detroit needs right now is flashy silver bullets to bring prestige to its politicians; it needs sustained organic growth and the conditions that encourage that.
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Re:Detroit's fabled Packard plant gets makeover
by bilbo0s on Tuesday May 16, 2017 @06:20PM
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The problem is...
Rebuilding Detroit is, itself, a "prestige" project in the eyes of many.
Or, put more directly... your definition of "prestige" project may not line up with another's definition of "prestige" project. Which are to be funded? Which are not to be funded?
You'll get into never ending debates if you go down that rabbit hole.
Re:Detroit's fabled Packard plant gets makeover
by jerf on Wednesday May 17, 2017 @09:13AM
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I don't play the "I can't draw a mathematically-perfect line precisely separating the universe into two parts therefore you can't draw a line at all" game. That's just sophomoric philosophy masquerading as wisdom. I have absolutely no problem at all living with the idea that I know prestige projects when I see them, and that there may sometimes be borderline cases.