cities, particularly the actual, not just metro areas and actually in-city boundaries are entirely represented essentially by representatives in congress. they do not vote for republicans and the republicans don t care about them more or less from i m not saying this because they re bad people, but from a constitchancy standpoint, they re not getting their votes. urban policy and this kind of thing is just not going to move very much unless there is a democratic president. michael, let s talk about the role that subsidies play because that s a big part of it. you re covering the fight over walmart coming into the west side of chicago. development doesn t happen just in a vacuum and a lot of times the government when you see these big stadium deals, for instance, in most cases just totally scandalous and just absolutely taxpayer footing the bill ours was not scandalous in d.c., i have to say. i cheered the agency that did it. we literally did a