crony

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• History is littered with cities that took on either general debt or project debt to build something, and that money then ended up in the pockets of mayors and alderman and unions and cronies.

• Cohen and his cronies always make sure that it’s socially acceptable to laugh at his American targets.

• Perhaps more interesting than the straight-up fraud perpetrated by King and his cronies is the history of the entire country of Liberia.

• Democrats need to respond aggressively to the crony capitalism practiced by many Republicans, particularly regarding Wall Street.

• Barack Obama has shown America that crony corporatism, patronage politics, and limitless government know no party.

• Call it the new class, the crony class, the ruling class, or the lobbyist-industrial complex.

• Unions exist because, without them, the path is opened wide to crony collaboration between big government and big business.

• In 2012, he voted to reauthorize the Export-Import Bank, one of the purest excresences of crony capitalism imaginable.

• "God bless me, crony; we ought to do these fine things and yet stay Catholics," cried the jeweller.

• He had known something of the Erringtons for many years, having been a crony of old Maxfield's once upon a time.

• I think every family should have a dog; it is like having a perpetual baby; it is the plaything and crony of the whole house.