More Like China?

What is this ass smoking?

• Mayor Richard Daley opened the new Fullerton “L” station on the Brown and Red lines Saturday and said the United States should follow China’s example on modernizing infrastructure.

  “If you travel to China, they do these things continually, on a daily basis,” Daley said. “They get the full cooperation at the federal, state, and local levels and their infrastructure projects are amazing. It doesn’t take them 10 or 20 or 30 years. It takes about four or five years.”

Does he really have no idea about communism? Slave labor? Nonexistent property and human rights? We mean, really? Due process? OSHA? Any of this right a bell Shortshanks?

The only idea worth importing from China is their method of dealing with political corruption - a bullet to the back of the head when local commissars are caught with their hands in the till. We'd be knee deep in blood here for a month or so, but a good rainstorm would clear that mess and we know some guys with dump trucks who could haul the bodies out to some Iowa farms.

UPDATE: On the upside, someone pointed out China has a "one child" policy that could pay extraordinary dividends down the line. And then there's the whole tank thing. Imagine if CPD had tanks in 1968 driving down Michigan Avenue. The Task Forces would have been hosing bits and pieces of Abby Hoffman out of the treads afterward.