In the space of less than two years former Dodgers owner Frank McCourt has gone from staring bankruptcy in the face to audacious acts of philanthropy:
I can only help McCourt’s input into the future public policy minds of our nation is limited to the resources they use to achieve their education. Because his special brand of policy know-how -- borrow until you can’t breathe and then get bailed out by a friggin’ miracle, made possible only by monopoly power -- is not exactly the example we need our future leaders to be learning.
Georgetown University says the former owner of the Los Angeles Dodgers has given the school $100 million, the largest donation ever in the school’s history, to create a public policy school ... The donation surpasses the previous record $87 million gift to Georgetown in 2010. The new school will be named the McCourt School of Public Policy and will launch in October, becoming the first new school at Georgetown since 1957.
I can only help McCourt’s input into the future public policy minds of our nation is limited to the resources they use to achieve their education. Because his special brand of policy know-how -- borrow until you can’t breathe and then get bailed out by a friggin’ miracle, made possible only by monopoly power -- is not exactly the example we need our future leaders to be learning.
Well, learning any more than they already are, that is.