Prometheus 6

Indifference That Can Kill
By Colbert I. King
Saturday, November 17, 2007; A17

"My own view is that it is very unfortunate, but people steal."

-- D.C. Council member Phil Mendelson (D-At Large), Nov. 9

And there it is: The quintessential response of the city's politically entrenched to scandal in the D.C. government. Instead of an assumed pride in the commitment and dedication of public servants, there's hopelessness, an absence of outrage, a ready acceptance of the worst.

Thirty million dollars in tax receipts out the window and into someone's pocket? Tsk, tsk. "People steal."

Which helps explain the blind eye that is turned to a steady stream of criminality in the D.C. government.