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trinityvixenSeems some folk aren't happy about the plans to rebuild N'Awlins
This cannot end well. They're going to pay people for the property they assimilate into government land, I presume, but how will that property be fairly valued? How will ownership be proven in some cases? Why is it safe to assume that less than half of the city's residents at the time of Katrina will come back? People always come back. Look at all the stupid Floridians who go back every year after shuttering up homes and sleeping in school gymnasiums for a season.
I can't comment on the hints that this plan is racist or at least racially biased by accident against African Americans, not knowing the situation, but I can tell you that the idea the city refuses to allow homes to be built or rebuilt in areas is not kosher with me. If the person owns the property, and the moving in of materials to build/re-build isn't endangering lives or compromising cleanup, isn't it that person's choice whether or not to procede?
I really, really get weirded out by eminent domain issues. The idea that if your house impedes a town making more money or building a transit system they want, the government can force you to give it up gives me the chills. This might be the one thing that having a more conservative supreme court would help with--Republicans and right-wing nuts are the "don't touch my stuff!!!" sort, right? Ooh, except for those big-business Republicans...sheisse...
This cannot end well. They're going to pay people for the property they assimilate into government land, I presume, but how will that property be fairly valued? How will ownership be proven in some cases? Why is it safe to assume that less than half of the city's residents at the time of Katrina will come back? People always come back. Look at all the stupid Floridians who go back every year after shuttering up homes and sleeping in school gymnasiums for a season.
I can't comment on the hints that this plan is racist or at least racially biased by accident against African Americans, not knowing the situation, but I can tell you that the idea the city refuses to allow homes to be built or rebuilt in areas is not kosher with me. If the person owns the property, and the moving in of materials to build/re-build isn't endangering lives or compromising cleanup, isn't it that person's choice whether or not to procede?
I really, really get weirded out by eminent domain issues. The idea that if your house impedes a town making more money or building a transit system they want, the government can force you to give it up gives me the chills. This might be the one thing that having a more conservative supreme court would help with--Republicans and right-wing nuts are the "don't touch my stuff!!!" sort, right? Ooh, except for those big-business Republicans...sheisse...
