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- Title: City of Rats: "Thinking Big" at the Municipal Level Means Abandoning the Basics (Rodent Control)
- Author : Reason
- Release Date : January 01, 2008
- Genre: Reference,Books,Religion & Spirituality,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 53 KB
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WASHINGTON, D.C., is lousy with rats, and not just of the human variety. I knew that before moving here--you'd always see them scampering around sidewalks and alleys when walking around town--but it took living full-time in the city to appreciate both the awe-inspiring magnitude of the infestation and the jaw-dropping indifference of a municipal government more focused on giving free money to billionaires than addressing the capital's legendary civic rot. On my very first trip to the supermarket as a bona fide Beltway resident, a little black rat darted between the feet of everyone in the checkout line. While the customers eeked, the Safeway employees just laughed and laughed. At my new rowhouse, I noticed packs of the critters clattering through the neighborhood's front yards, including my own. There were scores of gaping rat-holes in the dirt, and the trees were full of day-rats (otherwise known as squirrels) during sunlight hours. Some time soon after the beginning of the Chinese Year of the Rat, my pregnant wife walked downstairs and reached for her bag on the couch, and out jumped a plump young rodent.