Mousewitz!
Relentless hygiene, bad buffet food and no communication with the outside world. Hitler without the fun.
Walt Disney was a capitalist.
He left California because of oppressive Anaheim government stifling Disneyland.
Remember before the House Un-American Committee, he had no problem naming names and identifying commies.
Disneyworld made Orlando.
orlando is such a mickey mouse town
I suspect Disney World has its own government because the state government and the affected local government allowed Disney to form its own government.
However, since I refuse to purchase an “Ad Pass” from Popular Mechanics, I do not know for sure because I cannot read the article.
Walt Disney himself chose the Orlando location because unlike everyone else burned by Florida land scams, Disney actually had a vision of what to do with all that unused land southwest of Orlando, FL.
No, corporate owned cities is definitely NOT what libertarians have in mind. Really the exact opposite.
Disneyland was also built on orange groves.
DisneyWorld pays appx $535 Million in taxes to the counties and state each year. Added to that are the hundreds of millions in taxes (property, sales, etc) that the local affiliated businesses pay (hotels, restaurants, other small amusement facilities, conventions, etc), it has been a great success for Orlando and Florida.
What the hell was that?!!! Did an angry editor add a paragraph ahead of publication? "...what you can get away with as a multi-national Fortune 500 corporation who annexes a piece of land large enough to hold a major city."? Love Disney or hate them, in the 60s and 70s or now, Walt was a genius. His entrepreneurial endeavor is an iconic example of the fruits of capitalism and freedom.
But that was different time in our history for sure. Nobody could "get away" with that today, given the state of our nation and government control and regulation. And note that, while Disney has soured on Capitalism and the American Dream, it is only following it's new master, the central government. It's good to keep a close relationship with your god and master, just like all good liberals.
When my kids were little we went to Disneyland in California. There were wildfires burning all along the highway on our way in and the smoke was heavy but, as we turned into the park the air was clear and clean. I think Disney has it’s own weather.
An older coworker purchased two lots of ‘swampland’ about 1960, for his retirement.
Then Disney moved in next door!
The sale of the second lot more than paid for his new house.
And he continues to live happily ever after.
At least when people there criticize their Mickey Mouse Mayor they’re speaking the truth.
Walt Disney was a decent man, he loved kids, and loved America. Does anybody remember Disneyworld when Walt was in control? Very different from Michael Eisner’s Disneyworld. Eisner has changed it. He has made it a vehicle for pushing the leftist cultural agenda, “gay days,” and the like.
Epcot may be the only part of it that has escaped the agenda.
If they wanted, Disney could build a nuke plant in the Ready Creek Improvement District (the name of the town of Disney World) and the state of Florida couldn’t stop them.
When we go, we stay on property. Totally shut out the outside world.
It’s a slice of paradise surrounded by insanity.