Population Shrinking In Your City – Bulldoze It Is One Answer Obama Is Looking At
Hey, if your city is losing population the new answer the Obama administration is looking at is to bulldoze it till it is the right size. Who cares if you are living in a house in the bulldoze zone. It just means that it is time for you to move.
You have to read this to believe it. Have any of these folks heard of property rights?
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.
Local politicians believe the city must contract by as much as 40 per cent, concentrating the dwindling population and local services into a more viable area.
The radical experiment is the brainchild of Dan Kildee, treasurer of Genesee County, which includes Flint.
Having outlined his strategy to Barack Obama during the election campaign, Mr Kildee has now been approached by the US government and a group of charities who want him to apply what he has learnt to the rest of the country.
Mr Kildee said he will concentrate on 50 cities, identified in a recent study by the Brookings Institution, an influential Washington think-tank, as potentially needing to shrink substantially to cope with their declining fortunes.
Most are former industrial cities in the “rust belt” of America’s Mid-West and North East. They include Detroit, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Baltimore and Memphis. via the Telegraph
And these guys want to take over healthcare? Yikes…
US cities may have to be bulldozed in order to survive – Telegraph.
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Comment by Bigbaldman on 13 June 2009:
R u really that much of an idiot? Do you really think that they would just take people’s houses? They are giving foreclosed houses in the viable parts of town to the few people who still live in the parts of town that are going to be abandoned. Its called a trade, and its part of a solution. Are you familiar with that word? Probably not. Cause it seems like you are just another whiny, right-wing, complaining idiot. Man, they will give a forum to ANYONE nowadays…. please be a responsible citizen journalist and know about what it is that you are posting.
Comment by Tom Royce on 13 June 2009:
Well BigBaldMan I am sure that most of the homes will be foreclosures, but if you took the time to think, all homes in a ward or district will not be foreclosures. The rights of the few still dominate the rights of the many, and my guess is that the pressure to take a family’s home to fulfill the politicians dreams of an uncluttered green belt will be trampled quickly.
You have to recognize that these politicians are never worried about individual property rights. I am and will always be. It is the foundation of the American Way.
Comment by Trish on 14 June 2009:
I agree with you on this one Tom. Things are getting real scary out there…As a member of the real estate profession I am concerned about our futures and more importantly those that are coming in behind us.
Comment by Portland Real Estate on 15 June 2009:
Im sure that there will be opportunity for people to keep their homes. You could probably work a deal where you get MORE land around your home because they can bulldoze everyone elses house and you can help tend it and return it back to nature for a subsidy from the govt or something. I would personally love to do that. Take a destroyed area and put it back the way it is supposed to be.
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Comment by PEEP on 24 June 2009:
Nowhere in that article does it say that eminent domain would be used to take away people’s homes. This blog post is a huge exaggeration, or even lie, which is typical of Republican propaganda.
Comment by Tom Royce on 24 June 2009:
So then let me ask a dumb question, what tool will the government use to take the property to create parkland? A polite please, or begging? If there is a to be a park built over a new neighborhood, and one person says they will not sell, will they then scrap the project? I doubt it. They will take the property for the good of the community, and that is by using eminent domain. That is the only tool the government has. So instead of making it a political thing, make it a power thing. I would be just as pissed if a Republican took over land to build a condo development. Property rights are our most sacred right in this country. The government takes those, not much else matters.