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US cities may have to be bulldozed in order to survive
The Telegraph ^ | September 12 | Tom Leonard

Posted on 09/13/2009 12:07:08 AM PDT by PghBaldy

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To: altair; Just mythoughts

Hillary could not have united the people BO has. I also don’t see her bowing to the muslim King.

Never thought I’d EVER say I’d prefer hiltery over anyone.


101 posted on 09/13/2009 3:22:52 AM PDT by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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To: driftdiver
The main reason I like Palin is because she’s not part of the GOP establishment that only endorses RINOs.

I like Governor Palin for the same reasons I grew up liking Governor and later President Reagan (I used to listen to his radio addresses before he ran against Ford in '76). She makes sense.

I still wonder how she was selected as the VP candidate. Thats about the only good decision McCain made during the campaign.

I wonder about that too. The cynical side of me says that he chose a former beauty queen because that's the kind of man McCain is. But come on, your beauty queen wife waits patiently for you while you are being tortured in Vietnam. You finally come back and discover that she has had a disfiguring accident in the meantime and you divorce her? That's the best candidate the Republicans can come up with?

102 posted on 09/13/2009 3:35:47 AM PDT by altair (I hope he fails)
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To: PghBaldy
This is an admission that the stimulus has failed and the guvmint is out of money.

Obama can't increase demand so reduce supply !

First tried by Roosevelt, horrible failure.

103 posted on 09/13/2009 3:36:18 AM PDT by Vet_6780 ("I see debt people")
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To: tcrlaf
Enemy Central
104 posted on 09/13/2009 3:55:04 AM PDT by metesky (My retirement fund is holding steady @ $.05 a can.)
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To: PghBaldy
He said: "The obsession with growth is sadly a very American thing. Across the US, there's an assumption that all development is good, that if communities are growing they are successful. If they're shrinking, they're failing."

They are failing, thanks to idiots like yourself.
105 posted on 09/13/2009 3:56:31 AM PDT by dr_who
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To: driftdiver
Because Hillary had polarized the nation already. BO’s been able to convince plenty of people that he is the One. BO is also far to the left of Hillary. I think Rush made a mistake with his Stop Hillary Express. His mistake was underestimating how incompetent McCain would be running his campaign.

I do not see BamaKennedy any farther left or radical than Hillary on any day of the week. Hillary made her own share of enemies within liberalville, else old Teddy Kennedy would not have ripped the proverbial political rug from under her 'Bobby Kennedy' styled campaign of 'We can do it better'.

As far as lord McCain goes, the only thing he did or said that gave him a prayer of a chance of winning was bringing Sarah to his ticket. For all practical purposes lord McCain was just a big a player in the long eight years of "HATE" all things Bush as any self identified liberal. Even those independent moderates he slavishly day in and day out prostituted himself to, turned their noses up at him and would have stayed home or voted for Hillary.

Since the Republicans and in particular conservatives did not choose lord McCain in 2000, lord McCain showed his 'primary colors' (title of a book) over the next eight years, and quite frankly he himself made himself unelectable.

I do not believe for one minute had Hillary been elected with majorities in both houses she would be doing anything any differently than BamaKennedy. The only difference would be a raging "I AM" white woman versus the raging "I AM" biracial person this nation ended up electing.

106 posted on 09/13/2009 3:56:59 AM PDT by Just mythoughts
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To: PghBaldy

there is one reason and one reason only for the decline of private property in the inner cities (and else where) ...... Property Taxes. Get rid of property taxes and the problem is solved.


107 posted on 09/13/2009 4:02:54 AM PDT by jpsb
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To: driftdiver
If you can keep the power at the local/state level the politicians can be held accountable.

Repeal the 17th Amendment!

108 posted on 09/13/2009 4:02:55 AM PDT by metesky (My retirement fund is holding steady @ $.05 a can.)
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To: altair
I tried to explain that. Hillary! is a polarizing figure and many, many people hate her. There is very little middle ground with her. She wouldn't have had much if any presidential "honeymoon" and she would definitely have done much less damage than BS has done so far due to all the hardened opposition. Gridlock Is Good.

Hillary did not win because old Teddy Kennedy anointed and adopted BamaKennedy as the reincarnation of JFK. Now that is the method of operation BamaKennedy has always used to get himself elected, remove, destroy, discredit, any and all opposition so there is really no challenge. Old Teddy and BamaKennedy knew exactly WHO they were reaching out to with this 'religious' elevation of BamaKennedy by and from old Teddy and the daughter of JFK, Caroline. JFK voters!!!!! And if the data is correct that is exactly who they got inspired to vote for Bama. I can say that because of people I know who in political terms fit the JFK voters profile.

But to say Hillary is different that BamaKennedy ignores who old Hillary was as co-president during the 90's. The more she was opposed the harder she fought.

109 posted on 09/13/2009 4:05:52 AM PDT by Just mythoughts
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To: altair
Bulldozing declining urban areas is a great idea. Unfortunately, Obama probably intends to bulldoze the
affluent suburbs.........
110 posted on 09/13/2009 4:13:22 AM PDT by Dem Guard
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To: tcrlaf

Giant drug infested roach motel projects


111 posted on 09/13/2009 4:15:16 AM PDT by JudgemAll (control freaks, their world & their problem with my gun and my protecting my private party)
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To: PghBaldy

Imagine if urban cities didn’t get welfare, foodstamps, Federal grants?

Cites, once centers of industry,energy and profit are now taxpayer money sucking black holes and breeding and raising pens for Democrat votes.


112 posted on 09/13/2009 4:21:02 AM PDT by Leisler
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To: PghBaldy

I was hoping they would bull doze all of Chicago, but of course, the white house mafia will have none of that.


113 posted on 09/13/2009 4:21:25 AM PDT by chainsaw (If you think health care is expensive now, wait until you see what it costs when it's free! -- P.J..)
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To: nathanbedford

The system is very much in control. What is happening is the natural, albeit, opposite of the usual delusions of centralized planned economy.


114 posted on 09/13/2009 4:23:01 AM PDT by Leisler
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To: Leisler

“breeding and raising pens for Democrat votes.”

What else does a tyrant need?


115 posted on 09/13/2009 4:39:56 AM PDT by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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To: PghBaldy

Reminds me of the 1960’s slogan, “Urban Renewal Means Negro Removal.”, chanted by black activists.


116 posted on 09/13/2009 4:43:41 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (Don't anthropomorphize the robots. They hate that.)
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To: Stentor

bump !!!


117 posted on 09/13/2009 4:45:01 AM PDT by True Grit
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To: The Magical Mischief Tour

“Yeah they can have Memphis....”

I don’t disagree with you about the crime statistics. However, I have found the people there to be the friendliest and most helpful of any large city I have been in. I’m in Memphis and other large metro areas several times a year. Another really friendly place - Houston. Nothing scientific - just basing it on my personal experiences.


118 posted on 09/13/2009 4:51:00 AM PDT by Jubal Madison (Sic Semper Tyrannis)
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To: Spktyr
Because the Boomers didn’t sufficiently suppress and beat down their hippie peers, that’s why. :P

Um...

I was 10 in 1967. How exactly was I supposed to "beat down" the hippies?

Also...

I don't exactly see the following "generations" beating them down, either. In fact, I don't see the following generations doing much of anything except have inflated egos and whine alot. Just. Like. You.

He who is without sin and all that...

119 posted on 09/13/2009 4:51:55 AM PDT by Nahanni
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To: PghBaldy
Is this man nothing but death and destruction?

NO, NO, NO!!!! He's much more than that. He's also brimming with vacuous slogans, empty promises, hare-brained schemes and stale collectist plans.

Reminds me of "Cash for Clunkers": Economic policy grounded in the broken window fallacy.

The man is delusional. He's in Ceausescu mode: penning up the peasants in high rise government owned slums. Ask any refugee from the Bronx: How'd that work out for you?

120 posted on 09/13/2009 4:52:59 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (Don't anthropomorphize the robots. They hate that.)
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