Ep. 1771 - The Worst People Imaginable are Building the Future
4/30/202637 min
What do incompetent migrants and feminist girl bosses have in common? They are in charge of building our country's future, and that isn't a good thing. Ep. 1771
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First 90 secondsMatt Walsh· Host0:00
Unless you're about 100 years old or so, or you've spent a lot of time in the state of Massachusetts, there's a good chance you've never heard of something called the Curley Effect. Uh, it's named after James Michael Curley, who served four terms as mayor of Boston from 1914 to 1950. Also served in the House of Representatives, and he was governor of Massachusetts for, uh, one term as well. So for a half century, he was a very well-known figure in Boston. They called him the Rascal King, and he was quite popular with Boston's poor, particularly the, uh, Irish population. The, the funny thing about James Michael Curley, though, is that despite the fact that he kept getting elected to high office, he wasn't actually a good politician. W- wasn't even close. He committed numerous crimes, including mail fraud. He served part of his term as, uh, mayor in a prison cell. And under his watch, by every objective metric, the city of Boston declined dramatically. The population stagnated, even as other major cities grew exponentially. Manufacturing jobs left the city. Boston's finances collapsed to the point of near bankruptcy. So how did James Michael Curley hold on to power for so long, despite doing such a horrible job? Doesn't seem logical. So a couple of, uh, economists at, uh, Harvard decided to look into it and, and, and what they found was that by dramatically raising taxes and using taxpayer funds to hire poor Irishmen for fake government jobs, James Michael Curley had driven wealthy people out of the city.