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Originally posted by Spanky
If everyone gets their property back there won't be any redesign. You can't make a new map when the old map is locked in. Any redesign is going to involve the confiscation of private property.
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Not really. If the redesign means their property is under water, that's not a taking, that's your own bad luck. If we decided to abandon new orleans, as I've been saying we should for the most part, it's not a taking. they can still live there, with scuba gear.
And fringe this gives me an opportunity to respond to your FB post in teh right place.
If the oil companies need a place for their workers, why should the rest of the country pay for that? Same for the railroad cos. I know that you support Bush and all, but isn't doing so a bit much even for you? Instead of rebuilding the low lying areas of the city so that roughnecks can live there, why not take the money and get teh oil companies to kick in their share too to build a 20 lane highway to allow workers to commute super fast from Baton Rouge or somewhere above sea level. Same for the rail junctions. If people just work there, they can send them home once a decade for the bad storms.
