Telegraph :
The government looking at expanding a pioneering scheme in Flint, one of the poorest US cities, which involves razing entire districts and returning the land to nature.
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What they need to do is use the empty houses to help the homeless and others out there that have lost their homes.
Bulldozing homes is soo flippin asinine is it not even funny. All is shows is just how GREEDY people really are.
A country that refuses to deal with its problems through its elected representatives and turns our treasury over to crooked bankers is a country in precipitious decline and dissentegration. All a man can do is weep after he has writtten his representatives and received double think replies. May the Almighty protect my children? Our rotten government won't do it.
Take back the trillions of $$$ given to the banks, who just sit on it and make it totally ineffective then start government incentive to create realistic industries that give employment and generate real productive income, some of which would hopefully be from exports.
Every other country, especially China and most of Europe have goverment incentives to protect it's industries. No matter what you call it it's a form of protectionism and its inevitable. We should stop being naive and take care of our own house. The only ones who win if we don't are the multinational corporations who don't care where they get their hand out.
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Start with New Orleans
I was thinking Washington DC.
The Times-Picayune did a series of articles about this topic and its relation to new orleans last november:
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It is a pretty serious issue down here and there is an honest and frank discussion going on. This city will be smaller but it will never go away, the port, the history, and the oil are to vital to America.
What will probably need to go is some of the development done on drained swamplands. This is a sensitive issue and we are victims of climate change and anthropogenic environmental destruction.
Not a bad idea... except that it won't lead to much but a new bubble when the same developers move back in that caused the problem to begin with. We need sustainable infrastructure, something that only long term planning can achieve. Tearing down old structures without a plan to replace them with high density urban development is going to be yet another American folly.
So, why didn't the wise use the stimulus money to incentivies companies to bring manufacturing back to this country. Off money and tax breaks if they brought these jobs home? We wouldn't need the welfare , food stamp, mortgage assisitance etc.....if people had work....
bull dozing cities
why when we have so many ghost town in the heartland of our country
framers have been driven from the land whole towns have lost 90 % of there people
good land Kansas we worked there for six months it took me 3 weeks to figure out what was wrong with that town it had almost no young children I am telling you it was weird to walk in to there wall -mart and not hear children so of course I started asking and the good people of good land told me there is no work for our young people so they move to Denver
This is the result of free trade and allowing bankers to run rampant with their greed.
They shipped everything off to foreign countries to take advantage of their workers in order to squeeze out more profit and in turn break our unions.
As our infrastructure was shipped away our industrial cities died.
But this will not hurt the bankers. Their goods are made elsewhere. Their money is shipped out of the country to their offshore accounts.
They will fly in luxury over our decimated cities and the US populace suffering from zimbabwe inflation.
Growth in other countries is the reason for the decline here. The playing field was tilted in our favor for decades as a result of WWII. Our competitors were decimated.
The fact other countries wish to prosper and are willing to do this by imitating our success should come as no surprise.
Our standard of living is falling as their standard rises. We will meet somewhere in the middle.
The elites will never let their standard of living rise.
They will beat it down with the 0 interest rate tactics and pile debt on everyone's head. We will pay their debts and ours, while they take profit and refuse to pay taxes.
They want the Diamond Jim Brady days and it looks like they got em.
Just what cities like Cleveland and Detroit need......
I think they would intend to clear the lots. Cleared vacant land = countryside
When I think of "countryside", I don't think of lots over grown with 2 feet of grass and weeds in between 2 houses that are badly in need of a paint job and across the street from a boarded up factory.
Bulldozing cities... THAT will get you re-elected
Not a reader, huh?
This is eerily similar to Pol Pot's experiment in Cambodia back in the seventies.
Detroit's population has gone from 1.8 million in 1950 to 800.000 today and the politicians were spending money all those sixty years as if it was on the verge of a comeback. Let the markets and capitalism determine whether citiies survive without government trying to reverse what is a natural process that will in time regenerate the cities or if they must, then they will shrink and die. The forces of economics will determine the course of history, not more federal funding trying to respond to yesterdays problems with yesterdays answers What they are doing in Flint recognizes reality and they should be applauded for it. Shrinkage in some cases is good
Letting nature have back that which was hers to start with, sounds good to me.
I don't know how to break this to you, but there are actual people living in these areas, people who own homes and who won't be willing to give them up.
All Obama is trying to do is to hide the evidence of poverty in this country by bulldozing it under the ground.
But if you're willing to start with YOUR home and neighborhood, by "returning them to nature..."
Did you not read the article?? "Nobody will be forced to move."
The knee-jerk conservative blog is over there, tw!t.
Yeah, they're going to return it to nature, Nature Land Developers LLC.
They should really be doing this on our coasts and along watersheds and restoring wetlands..
You must have been cheering when Katrina happened.
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First Posted: 06-13-09 01:28 PM | Updated: 06-13-09 01:36 PM