I love New York in dust, how about you?
Another week, another fabulous Paul Krugman editorial, this time about the bang-up job the White House has done of screwing over New York City:
Why was crucial information withheld from the public? The report mentions "the desire to reopen Wall Street and national security concerns." Maybe — though the national security benefits of failing to remove toxic dust escape me. I suspect that there was another reason: budget politics.
Best of all, the article flips-flops the old theory about those snobby big-city liberals, and instead points out the fact that, in so many words, "some people from America's 'red states' just hate big-city folk." Nice to know the venom flows in both directions.