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To: Schnucki
...concentrating the dwindling population and local services into a more viable area...

Where have we heard this term before...hmmmm...

4 posted on 06/12/2009 11:12:43 AM PDT by JRios1968 (The real first rule of Fight Club: don't invite Chuck Norris...EVER)
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To: JRios1968
"Where have we heard this term before...hmmmm... "

Well, some of those places could use some pacification.

23 posted on 06/12/2009 11:19:49 AM PDT by Paladin2 (Big Ears + Big Spending --> BigEarMarx, the man behind TOTUS)
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To: JRios1968
Where have we heard this term before...hmmmm...

Most recently? New Orleans, 2005.

Post-Katrina, there was lots of talk about shutting down city services (police, firefighting, garbage pickup, etc.) to large portions of the city to force the city into a smaller "footprint".

Guess what, it ain't happening. The areas that were considered for "shutdown" actually were some of the "newer" portions of the flooded area, and therefore had houses built on monolithic slabs. Although the homes suffered horrible flood damage, they were deemed salvageable - and the city began buying up those houses through a number of straw-man purchasers, gutting and rebuilding the interiors. This like-new housing was made available to - you guessed it - low income families.

Ten to one, that's what the neighborhood organizer-in-chief has in mind: many houses in the designated areas won't be bulldozed at all, they'll be turned into replacements for public housing projects.

Think about it - parts of New Orleans are still, for all practical purposes, depopulated. In some areas, perhaps only one in ten property owners have repaired their homes, while the rest of the houses sit in ruins. Yet, that city isn't on the list. I think it's because the plan is already in motion there.

55 posted on 06/12/2009 11:45:52 AM PDT by Charles Martel ("Endeavor to persevere...")
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To: JRios1968
"Concentrate" them, eh?

They could think of it as going "camping".

62 posted on 06/12/2009 11:52:54 AM PDT by ArrogantBustard (Western Civilization is Aborting, Buggering, and Contracepting itself out of existence.)
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To: JRios1968

They are called concentration camps


170 posted on 06/12/2009 7:41:45 PM PDT by Cacique (quos Deus vult perdere, prius dementat ( Islamia Delenda Est ))
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To: JRios1968; All

Government media is now blaming RUSH LIMBAUGH for their own idiotic plan!


194 posted on 06/17/2009 3:31:09 PM PDT by omega4179 (America is a Christian Nation.)
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