One has to think Mayor Linda Thompson and the good people of Harrisburg have their hearts in the right place. Three days of prayer and fasting may help their souls but what will it do for the city's debt obligation? To conservatives Harrisburg, Pennsylvania stands as a textbook example of government venturing into areas where it has no expertise. In the early 1970's the city built an incinerator that would burn garbage and generate electricity. The incinerator had technical problems from the outset and was shut down in 2003 for pollution violations. In a short the city of Harrisburg is $300 million in debt with no foreseeable out short of bankruptcy.
"If you ran at peak efficiency, 100 percent all of the time, just by pure volume, you couldn't process that much waste in a facility of this size to make their debt service," a spokesman said. One wonders how long before bankrupt wind farms and high speed rail lines dot the landscape,
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