06-23-2005, 11:54 PM
Last post, cause I'm getting out before it gets too flamey, but
Let's see here, 300 million (the cost of the project) for 80 lower class homes, thats nearly 4 million a house. I'm positive corporations all over America have pleanty of poor peoples houses they just can't wait to tear down at that price.
And the Supreme Court did not say anyone with a lawyer or cash could do this. They said that, absent any equal rights concern, they would defer to local governments to determine when the common good outweighed property rights, a balancing act approved by the constitution. The only news here is that they are allowed to use jobs and revenue in that balancing equasion.
95% of places in America are small enough that, if the project is demonstrably a bad idea, the city council can be replaced in a hurry by agitated citizens.
Let's see here, 300 million (the cost of the project) for 80 lower class homes, thats nearly 4 million a house. I'm positive corporations all over America have pleanty of poor peoples houses they just can't wait to tear down at that price.
And the Supreme Court did not say anyone with a lawyer or cash could do this. They said that, absent any equal rights concern, they would defer to local governments to determine when the common good outweighed property rights, a balancing act approved by the constitution. The only news here is that they are allowed to use jobs and revenue in that balancing equasion.
95% of places in America are small enough that, if the project is demonstrably a bad idea, the city council can be replaced in a hurry by agitated citizens.