December 02, 2005

Still "a Positive?"

Is this what Harold Ford, Jr. was talking about when he called Kelo "a positive" ruling? (emphasis mine)

It's across the inlet from Palm Beach, but this town — mostly black, blue-collar and with a large industrial and warehouse district — could be a continent away from the Fortune 500 and Rolls-Royce set.

But Riviera Beach's fortunes may soon change.

In what has been called the largest eminent-domain case in the nation, the mayor and other elected leaders want to move about 6,000 residents, tear down their homes and use the emptied 400-acre site to build a waterfront yachting and residential complex for the well-to-do.

(ht: Glenn Dean)

More: By the way...that's 6,000 out of only 32,000 total residents. About 19%. Moving almost 20% of your poor residents out so the rich can come in? I'm sure those wanting a liberal Supreme Court based on one single issue can justify that.

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Blake, all due respect, you're missing the point here.

Just think...with all the riff-raff gone and the beautiful new SquidPort open for business how much better off the Community will be. Besides. The Poor don't need a waterfront view. There are other places they can live. And it's hard to enjoy a drink on your yacht with their hovels cluttering up your eyeline.

Posted by: Katherine Coble at December 2, 2005 02:45 PM

The waterfront just reminds the poor of the yachts they don't have.

You'll probably want to go ahead and take this post down Blake.

Posted by: smantix at December 3, 2005 07:29 AM