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$330 million
That is the amount of money I am told was lost when Boston shut down for the day on Friday April 19th.
What would you do with $330 million? Is 'catching one dude who killed a number of people commensurate to a bad car wreck' top of your list? This is even without thinking about how purposeless it was to even close anything outside of Watertown; even if it had accomplished anything, it is not worth this city's money and especially not worth sending the signal out that we will fearfully screw ourselves over that hard the moment any two-bit jihadi does anything newsworthy. $330 million is a lot of power to be handing to those two-bit jihadis, and I am sure they will take account of the sum accordingly.
What would you do with $330 million? Is 'catching one dude who killed a number of people commensurate to a bad car wreck' top of your list? This is even without thinking about how purposeless it was to even close anything outside of Watertown; even if it had accomplished anything, it is not worth this city's money and especially not worth sending the signal out that we will fearfully screw ourselves over that hard the moment any two-bit jihadi does anything newsworthy. $330 million is a lot of power to be handing to those two-bit jihadis, and I am sure they will take account of the sum accordingly.