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Urban Sprawl Is Literally Stranding the Poor (Paul Krugman)
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| 07/28/2013
| Kevin Spak
Posted on 07/29/2013 11:51:33 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd
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So. Urban Sprawl is to blame for Society's problems? All Righty Then.
To: Responsibility2nd
If only the peasants would let us put them in 100 story ant farms so they could be more easily controlled...
To: Responsibility2nd
Government barracks should do it - you’ll have to force the wealthy to live in them at gunpoint, but hey, it’s for the Greater Good.
To: Responsibility2nd
Well, isn't that special.
I'm sure that Mr. Krugman will be the first to volunteer to move some of these "disadvantaged" folks right in next door to him.
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posted on
07/29/2013 11:53:37 AM PDT
by
wbill
To: Responsibility2nd
Gotta agree that Atlanta is reaallly spread out.
Hardly compares with the NYC or LA metroplexes, though.
To: Responsibility2nd
The purpose of Section 8 housing is to disperse the Eric Holder underclass into all the other strata of neighborhoods.
Either Section 8 is a good idea, or it's not.
You can't have it both ways Paul, even if you are schizophrenic.
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posted on
07/29/2013 11:55:11 AM PDT
by
E. Pluribus Unum
(Who knew that one day professional wrestling would be less fake than professional journalism?)
To: Responsibility2nd
Central planners like to think they have all the answers, yet they always fail.
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posted on
07/29/2013 11:55:16 AM PDT
by
Jim Robinson
(Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God!!)
To: Responsibility2nd
translation: There is not enough of us piled up like rats in mega-cities to support the subsidies mega-cities cannot survive without.
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posted on
07/29/2013 11:55:29 AM PDT
by
Wuli
(uir)
To: Responsibility2nd
So, let’s gentrify all the cities and push the poor out into the suburbs. Retake the cities, if you can stand it.
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posted on
07/29/2013 11:55:44 AM PDT
by
Eva
(B Obama is to Trayvon Martin as Al Sharpton is to Tawana Brawley)
To: Responsibility2nd; All
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posted on
07/29/2013 11:56:18 AM PDT
by
musicman
(Until I see the REAL Long Form Vault BC, he's just "PRES__ENT" Obama = Without "ID")
To: Black Agnes
![](http://www.isfdb.org/wiki/images/4/4e/TWRLDI1972.jpg)
That is the premise of the 1971 novel by Robert Silverberg......only the buildings were a mile high and held millions of people........
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posted on
07/29/2013 11:57:32 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Want to be surprised? Google your own name......Want to have fun? Google your friend's names........)
To: wbill
I'm sure that Mr. Krugman will be the first to volunteer to move some of these "disadvantaged" folks right in next door to him. I'm pretty sure some of his mansions have plenty of room to house several dozen families right under his roof.
To: Responsibility2nd
Yeah, it's sprawl's fault. /sarcasm.
All those people that moved to the townships caused Detroit to fubar itself with bad schools, high costs, bad services, and crime everywhere.
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posted on
07/29/2013 11:58:01 AM PDT
by
Darren McCarty
(Abortion - legalized murder for convenience)
To: Responsibility2nd
Poor is a CHOICE, Paul. You want to deprive them of their CHOICE, don’t you?
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posted on
07/29/2013 11:58:11 AM PDT
by
JimRed
(Excise the cancer before it kills us; feed &water the Tree of Liberty! TERM LIMITS, NOW & FOREVER!)
To: Responsibility2nd
Oh, there’s plenty of American Dream just outside Atlanta. I’m living it.
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posted on
07/29/2013 11:58:14 AM PDT
by
ctdonath2
(Making good people helpless doesn't make bad people harmless.)
To: Responsibility2nd
Sorry, Mr. Krugman, it won't work. The reason people left the dense warrens of the inner city was to get away from the crime, trash, and civic disorder. Giving the criminals and drug addicts more mobility will only push them farther away. The answer is to fix the problems in the culture, not to try to make them unavoidable.
To: Responsibility2nd
Krugman gets it all wrong. An executive living in wealthy Lower Merion Township in the Philly burbs has much more in common with a contemporary in Singapore, Frankfurt or Dubai than he does with minimum-wage schmoos living just five miles away from him in West Philly.
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posted on
07/29/2013 11:58:58 AM PDT
by
dirtboy
To: Old North State
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posted on
07/29/2013 11:59:15 AM PDT
by
GeronL
To: Black Agnes
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posted on
07/29/2013 11:59:38 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Want to be surprised? Google your own name......Want to have fun? Google your friend's names........)
To: Responsibility2nd
Speaking of sprawl...
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posted on
07/29/2013 11:59:44 AM PDT
by
maggief
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