...for an education. That is, if Professor of English William O'Rourke is typical of the faculty (and, gee thanks, pgl for more material). O'Rourke, commenting on the impending turnover of the asset know as the Indiana Toll Road in exchange for nearly $4 billion, asserts:
... the Toll Road takeover is a triumph of ideology over economics.
Supporting his argument with such ironclad logic as:
I've always been amused by Daniels' invented campaign persona -- decked out as one of the hicks, wearing wool, plaid or flannel and some ridiculous hat, looking like some character out of a "Saturday Night Live" skit poking fun at Canadians, usually accompanied by many shots of his RV rolling through the Indiana hills. Mitch Daniels, man of the people, not....
Now that the former Eli Lilly executive has put most of the state on Eastern Standard Time's daylight-saving time (Eli Lilly time!), and Hoosier parents experience the fun of trying to put their children to bed while it's still light out ....
Yeah, we really have to wonder about people who are slaves to ideology. Especially when it gets in the way of seeing scarce resources being directed to more highly valued uses. In this case valued only by the Cintra-Macquarie consortium at anything like $3.8 billion.
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