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China: Road Built Around Couple’s Home
Sky News ^ | 6:25pm UK, Thursday 22 November 2012

Posted on 11/22/2012 10:49:10 PM PST by Olog-hai

A Chinese couple have found themselves living in the fast lane after refusing to move out for a new road.

Construction workers in the country’s Zhejiang province surrounded their five-story building with asphalt, leaving motorists to navigate an unlikely obstacle. …

(Excerpt) Read more at news.sky.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Chit/Chat; Society; Travel
KEYWORDS: centralplanning; china; eminentdomain; napl; redchina
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1 posted on 11/22/2012 10:49:28 PM PST by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai

On the road again,
I just can’t wait to be on the road agin.......


2 posted on 11/22/2012 10:56:14 PM PST by 2010Freeper
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To: Olog-hai
They should have just sued on environmental concerns, that’ll stop any highway construction.
3 posted on 11/22/2012 11:00:45 PM PST by Navy Patriot (Join the Democrats, it's not Fascism when WE do it, and the Constitution and law mean what WE say.)
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To: Navy Patriot

Where, in Red China?


4 posted on 11/22/2012 11:01:48 PM PST by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai

Guess the Kelo decision hasn’t hit China yet. A Red Chinaman has stronger property rights than us.


5 posted on 11/22/2012 11:11:34 PM PST by DesertRhino (I was standing with a rifle, waiting for soviet paratroopers, but communists just ran for office.)
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To: Olog-hai

They should apply to Guinness for having the world’s longest driveway.


6 posted on 11/22/2012 11:12:35 PM PST by Gman (Anglican Priest)
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To: Olog-hai

At least now they have a source of income as a highway rest stop.


7 posted on 11/22/2012 11:12:42 PM PST by gunsequalfreedom (Conservative is not a label of convenience. It is a guide to your actions.)
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To: Olog-hai

In the 1950s we had some tough old timers, male and female, fighting imminent domain for the freeways, they would stand at the gates with their shot guns, but they always lost in the end.

Back then the journalists of the time, showed a touching respect to the hold outs that, you wouldn’t see today.


8 posted on 11/22/2012 11:21:33 PM PST by ansel12 (The only Senate seat GOP pick up was the Palin endorsed Deb FischerÂ’s successful run in Nebraska)
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That’s one reason why I don’t understand “conservative” support for government highway building—stuff like that is as statist as you can get, even Marxist, and then they have the nerve to complain about where eminent domain has gone today.
9 posted on 11/22/2012 11:26:43 PM PST by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai

I betcha the pic is photoshopped.


10 posted on 11/22/2012 11:31:19 PM PST by Greg123456 (Don't make me open a can of monster.)
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Which one?

Not that it would surprise me. Especially since Red China is notorious for relocating people against their will and all.


11 posted on 11/22/2012 11:33:12 PM PST by Olog-hai
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To: ansel12

My husband’s family owned some prime land for a freeway build back then. MUCH more than was needed for the road.

They took it all, built a Post Office on part of it that they didn’t use for the freeway, and a large “developer” ended up with the rest of it...go figure.

They paid his relative pennies; which he used to fight them...of course he lost. He was just a regular guy who had the foresight to purchase that land..not from the “right” crowd.


12 posted on 11/22/2012 11:38:34 PM PST by garandgal
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To: Olog-hai

OKay, kids... Mom ha a headache, go outside and play!


13 posted on 11/23/2012 12:11:11 AM PST by GeronL (http://asspos.blogspot.com)
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To: Greg123456

Maybe not.

There was a pic earlier of that same house in the middle of roadwork as they were trying to get the owners to move out. They held on for a better price.


14 posted on 11/23/2012 12:28:21 AM PST by Hardraade (http://junipersec.wordpress.com (I will fear no muslim))
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To: Greg123456

me too look at the distance of the HI Tension power in the 1st one compared to the 2nd.The building in the second may even be the one in the 1st??


15 posted on 11/23/2012 4:31:48 AM PST by CGASMIA68
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To: Olog-hai

You can see why this is a big problem for the two people in China who own cars.


16 posted on 11/23/2012 6:01:44 AM PST by RetSignman ("A Republic if you can keep it"....)
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“That’s one reason why I don’t understand “conservative” support for government highway building—stuff like that is as statist as you can get, even Marxist, and then they have the nerve to complain about where eminent domain has gone today.”

I thought it was permitted by the US Constitution?


17 posted on 11/23/2012 6:28:07 AM PST by BobL (You can live each day only once. You can waste a few, but don't waste too many.)
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I thought it was permitted by the US Constitution?

You are correct, Postal Roads.

Not hard to see US Mail moving on the Interstate Highway System.

The REALLY interesting story is why President Eisenhower chose to build the Interstate system.

18 posted on 11/23/2012 9:44:11 AM PST by Navy Patriot (Join the Democrats, it's not Fascism when WE do it, and the Constitution and law mean what WE say.)
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To: Olog-hai
Where, in Red China?

No, in San Francisco, they stick their nose in foreign nation's business around the world on a daily basis.

19 posted on 11/23/2012 9:54:29 AM PST by Navy Patriot (Join the Democrats, it's not Fascism when WE do it, and the Constitution and law mean what WE say.)
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To: BobL
What, to the point of bankrupting the nation and denying property rights? I think not. The “just compensation” clause has been trampled so often that nobody even thinks about it anymore. The way the US did it with all the highway building is more like Planks 1 and 9 of the Communist Manifesto:
  1. Abolition of private property and the application of all rents of land to public purposes.
  1. Combination of agriculture with manufacturing industries; gradual abolition of the distinction between town and country, by a more equitable distribution of population over the country.
Compare this with how almost all railroads in the Union are under private ownership. Why could not interstates have been built in the same manner?
20 posted on 11/23/2012 10:18:09 AM PST by Olog-hai
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