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Maybe the government could start a new subsidized tent cities program for the unemployed and homeless, far from the valued urban property areas, maybe on government lands?
Wow! To think those people could have had a V-8! V-8 engine made in Detroit of American Steel made in Cleveland but hey you love your four cylander Toyota right?
Originally posted by whatukno
reply to post by ProtoplasmicTraveler
Wow! To think those people could have had a V-8! V-8 engine made in Detroit of American Steel made in Cleveland but hey you love your four cylander Toyota right?
Let's see, the V-8 chugs gas, breaks down almost constantly and needs repair, is loud, and again needs constant repair. Made by a lazy incompetent union employee that has been on the job longer than I have been alive and can't be fired.
Yea I would love a rice burning Toyota built by non union American employees that have to show work ethic to keep their jobs, over some piece of garbage. Thanks.
You remember that when you are standing in line in a FEMA Camp, waiting for the days meal!
Originally posted by whatukno
reply to post by ProtoplasmicTraveler
You remember that when you are standing in line in a FEMA Camp, waiting for the days meal!
Been there done that, spent a year and a half at one in Arcadia FL.
Let me see, a car manufactured BY AMERICANS, in an AMERICAN plant with a foreign tag, or one built by the UAW union employees that don't give two rats asses about the quality of their product cause they are union and won't loose their job anyway.
Gee, wonder why people are so swift to buy foreign?
The big three can't compete with the foreign makers cause they are cowed by the union who demands too much for too little. Then if they somehow manage to fire a union employee he can still get his job back if he files a grievance with the company. Costing the company more money in the long run.
Ill admit, I can't argue specks with you. Never was a motor head. But I do know lazy union employees can't do what a non union employee that has to work for a living in the same country can do. They can turn out a better product, cause if they don't they loose their job.
All I know is all the American cars I have owned had to have much more service than the foreign cars I have owned.
You wonder why Detroit and Flint are in the shape they are in? It's the UAW that's the reason that Detroit and Flint are such cesspool hell holes that they are. If you don't work for one of the automakers you have to slum by in some mediocre job in areas that would be bad for slums in third world countries.
This is why they need to take down these abandoned buildings, these wretched cesspool slums that people hovel in. They have to cut the cancer from the patient in order for the patient to survive.
Originally posted by tezzajw
Originally posted by whatukno
Some parts of Flint and Detroit are almost ghost towns. They only really harbor criminals and drugs.
I don't see the problem with this.
Originally posted by WhatTheory
What?
So now the Obama administration can abuse it's powers even more by bulldozing a town or city that it deems unfit. If a town or city is not going along with Obama's plans then lets just bulldoze it over. I see lots of opportunity for abuse here.
We all know how eminent domain has been abused so why would this particular policy be any different?
This is NOT up to the federal government to decide. If anytjhing, the local towns or state should decide such things and NOT the federal government.
www.telegrap h.co.uk
(visit the link for the full news article)
[edit on 6/12/2009 by WhatTheory]
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Originally posted by GuyverUnit I
However, if this turns out to be a land grab by big government whereby the STATE/FEDS become owners of and control these large swaths of once privately owned real estate...
Originally posted by WhatTheory
Originally posted by GuyverUnit I
However, if this turns out to be a land grab by big government whereby the STATE/FEDS become owners of and control these large swaths of once privately owned real estate...
Of course this is what will happen. When has the government NOT abused their power. Just look at all the abuse of power regarding eminent domain.
Originally posted by Tamale_214
I don't live in the states and I am curious what you are referring to with eminent domain.