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Some experts are skeptical that the same market forces that destroyed neighborhoods in Baltimore can be trusted to salvage others. “There’s this obsession that the invisible hand of the market can cure all ills,” said city policy expert Kildee.

“Anybody who’s spent any time in Cleveland, Detroit, Philadelphia, Baltimore or Flint, can see what the market has done to those neighborhoods. It’s destroyed them.”

As if the "market" were a thing with a single will. Of course, if he'd said that people acting in their own best interests had destroyed them, it just wouldn't have the same big-government ring.

13 posted on 02/24/2012 7:00:11 AM PST by BfloGuy (The final outcome of the credit expansion is general impoverishment.)
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One day one is looking at a healthy working class neighborhood and, overnight, that darn market comes in and destroys it...and it happens time after time in those progressive meccas run by the most enlightened. Thankfully we have a president who will see to it that the suburbs share the pain.


28 posted on 02/24/2012 7:39:44 AM PST by dogcaller
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