We need, WFB begins, a philosophy of "the role of the government in coming to

the aid of divers failing organizations and municipalities ... Why help Lockheed and Chrysler and not Abercrombie & Fitch? Why help New York City and not

Indianapolis?" Senator Lugar had initially opposed the New York City bailout and then wound up supporting it; he persuasively tells why, explaining, among other things, that there was no great danger of opening a floodgate: "Finally, no city really has wanted to follow New York .. . simply because the [power of] government literally passes somewhere else.... That's not an appetizing prospect."