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[Brad Haslett]

Herb,

Most people are totally ignorant of how markets work and how
government corrupts them. One of the reasons the coast is so slow
recovering is that no one is going to do for themselves what they
think the gubment will do for them.  In fact, a huge percentage of the
population thinks they have a "right" to free or cheap housing.  No
developer in his right mind is going to risk capital on a project when
he has a competitor (gubment) with no requirement to meet budgetary
constraints or market realities. I know of one property where FEMA
spent 2.5 million dollars on improvements to park roughly 80 FEMA
trailers for less than 12 months.  Think about it, we (taxpayers)
could have sent these folks on a year long cruise on the "Love Boat"
for less money (it wasn't like they were going to be late for work
anyway).  But then again, I don't have to tell you to think.  You get
it!

Brad

On Sun, Nov 9, 2008 at 8:38 AM, Herb Parsons <hparsons at parsonsys.com> wrote:
> Brad,
>
> Do you think the founding fathers EVER envisioned the notion of taking
> property from productive citizens in order to provide housing for
> non-productive citizens when they limited the ability of the gubment to
> take private property to being taken for "public use"?
>
> Brad Haslett wrote:
>> Ed,
>>
>> Excellent read from Dr. Sowell, thank you.  I wish for the sake of our
>> country I could find something in his observations to disagree with.
>> Unlike the rabid left for the last eight years, I shall refrain from
>> attacking the man (POTUS) and stick to dissecting his policies - there
>> will be no shortage of detestable items to attack. The press will fall
>> out of love soon enough and perhaps will return to their original
>> mission.
>>
>> My brother and I have been busy the last few days on a government
>> sponsored mission.  Our neighbor's property next to our business was
>> purchased for Section 8 housing and they (the gubment) approached us
>> to sell our corner.  My first response was, "great, we'll build a
>> strip mall with a liquor store, pawn shop, and laundry mat". That did
>> not please them.  We're looking for a new place to locate as they are
>> pretty serious about buying and will just seize it through eminent
>> domain if we can't agree on a price.
>>
>> Brad
>>
>> On Sun, Nov 9, 2008 at 6:09 AM, Tootle <ekroposki at charter.net> wrote:
>>
>>> Brad:
>>>
>>> Have you read this discussion by Thomas Sowell?  Too much reading for most
>>> on this forum, so posted for Brad voracious reading appetite.
>>>
>>> http://media.hoover.org/documents/uk_sowell_transcript_conflict_visions.pdf
>>>
>>> Ed K
>>>
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