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We're talking, after all, about a city government that--with an annual budget of about $5 billion and a shrinking population--runs schools that cannot shelter, much less educate its children; cannot mend its roads or keep its drinking water potable; cannot police its own police force, let alone its streets or jails; cannot care for the sick, or elderly, or homeless.