Comments on: Today’s Priority: Urban Renewal

By: dudette

dudette — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 13:55:00 +0000

He is just using the Alinsky playbook–overwhelm the system til people can’t keep track of everything and give up. Sorry O–it wont’t work we are on to you.

By: Achance

Achance — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 12:39:25 +0000

is the inability to prioritize. If you don’t know what’s important, everything becomes equally important, so nothing gets done. The next best signs are redecorating/rearranging the offices and travelling a lot.

By: wayneepalmer

wayneepalmer — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 12:34:14 +0000

One of these days you’d hope somehow these asinine, idiotic liberals would get the slightest glimmer of a clue.

Most of the reason these neighborhoods are blighted, drug-infested, cesspools of high crime and violence is that they are full of a whole bunch of useless, lazy, douche bags.

They are overflowing with a multi-generational mob of over-indulged and under-motivated fools who’ve been told year after year that they are owed something for “their suffering and abuse” and exploited time and time again by a combination of silver-spoon a&&hats on crusades to save the world from their own boredom and without messing their coiffures, and a pack of demagogic carpetbaggers looking for rubes to get rich on.

Like any addict, the only chance of saving these people is cutting them off from every crutch and umbilical cord and forcing them to learn how to survive without the public t*t to suck on.

By: mdd1956

mdd1956 — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 11:01:07 +0000

Anyone with a few honest bucks moves of these areas ASAP for their kids.

School vouchers let people stay, small business assistance provides necessary services ( groceries, cleaners, jobs) and a zero tolerance community policing policy makes the whole thing work.

It’s the same thing as fighting an insurgency.

By: aposematic

aposematic — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 10:47:14 +0000

With the Olimpics lost, someone must pay for the Chicago slums and line the pockets of Obama’s friends and supporters.

I thought that was what the $787 billion Democratic re-election fund (stimulus bill) was for.

By: aesthete

aesthete — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 18:55:54 +0000

I certainly wouldn’t want to see us waste our time and money on an idea that has already been tried and found wanting. Also, it’s great that he have absolutely nothing else going on that would require our attention. Otherwise, I’d be worried at the President’s lack of prioritization skills. /snark

By: yoyo

yoyo — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 18:49:25 +0000

“When everything is Priority 1, NOTHING is Priority 1.”

This fits this Administration like nothing I have seen yet. This was the whole purpose of his Campaign – Find something that sounds good, that will work up the local populace, and make it “My Priority.” This is what the administration is doing now. Only now, he has so many Pri 1′s that NOTHING is getting done, nor will it get done.

I hate saying it, but, as Billary once said, “It’s the Economy, Stupid!” Fix that, and you wont need to have “Urban Renewal.”

What a waste of an “Office.” This is a case of the Blind leading the Dead.

By: GT350

GT350 — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 18:42:26 +0000

Check out Oakland-style urban renewal. The pols think there’s too many legitimate small businesses around, so they’re going to crack down. Seriously. They want to run nail salon owners out of town.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/10/07/BAK71A1JKI.DTL

Oakland is plagued by lifelong unemployment, violent crime, urban decay, horrific schools, and rampant corruption. Not to mention gangs. And the city’s only thought is how to crack down on legitimate small business owners.

By: persiflage

persiflage — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 18:35:51 +0000

eighty year old, decrepit housing? Good luck.
Some favored someone(s) is going to make money out of this.
Ow! I feel my pocket being picked…dang!

By: illinoisconservative

illinoisconservative — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 18:35:33 +0000

That’s how it’s done in Chicago. Why mess with a success?

By: NightTwister

NightTwister — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 18:31:06 +0000

You know, for creating jobs for the 50% without them…

Oh that’s right. It was Bush’s tax cuts that caused the horrendous unemployment rates earlier in this decade.