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To: ManyMoose who wrote (414432)3/4/2011 9:53:00 AM
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Daley: We're a 'country of whiners'

March 03, 2011
Share | Posted by Rick Pearson at 6:59 p.m.

Retiring Mayor Richard Daley contended today that America is a “country of whiners” that’s spent the last four decades fearing the impact of foreign governments on the nation’s economy instead of showing the confidence and sacrifice to lead on a global stage.

Daley also said he believed taxpayers can no longer finance the current level of government and suggested priorities need to be placed on municipal services that can be privatized or outsourced to cut costs. And he blasted a teachers’ union he argued was more concerned about pay than in taking responsibility for educating the less well off...


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