"It's amazing anyone could be so vindictive when they've made so much money,"
SHE DIDN'T WANT TO *MOVE*!
It's good she got "just compensation", but it STILL doesn't make it right that she and others were FORCED OUT.
She still has (natural, and Constitutional) right of refusal!
(Yes, her card was a bit ridiculous, but I still sympathize with the woman because she was still wronged.)
"Fellow NLDC member George Milne, a former top executive at Pfizer Inc., called the card "immensely childish.""
CHILDISH? Who's childish?
The absurdity of an elite government-type (backed by FORCE as gov's are) to talk about a silly card when he and his cronies care nothing about the NATURAL RIGHTS of these people to stay where they are!
"I think the poor woman has gone around the bend," he said. "I haven't gotten any mail from her in years. I still feel bad for Susette. The sorry part of this is that the things she's angry about were not done to be mean-spirited toward her personally."
"It's sort of sad she elected to do this," Milne said. "We were trying to do things for the city. It was nothing personal.""
What DUH! We don't care if it's personal or NOT. The point is you government-force we-can-do-what-we-want took what belongs to her and her neighbors, by force. In fact, the irony is EXACTLY that it's not personal. You just try to make the people nameless blobs and thus you don't have to worry about feeling bad for them.
Amazing that this could happen in America.
As a test of how this woman is being unreasonable, I have a proposal.
Everyone involved in this taking should have their home (or homes) ordered to be "taken" by the government. They would be "compensated" with a typical lowball appraisal amount, and have to fight for 5 years or more to get fair monetary compensation, but must still lose their property.
Then we can ask them how much they enjoyed the experience. If they are bitter, we can point out that they ended up with much more than the appraised value, so they should be happy.
$442,155 settlement, more than $300,000 above the appraised value of her home in 2000.
Wow! Does everyone get this winfall? Please come take my house. Currently worth 300,000 dollars, they can take it for 600,000 no problem. I always thought the owners got screwed. This does not bother me as much as it used to.
""It's sort of sad she elected to do this," Milne said. "We were trying to do things for the city. It was nothing personal.""
nothing personal about taking someones home so a business could pay off these elected officials.
10 yrs from now they'll be saying nothing personal when they start putting down the old and infirm.
After all, what did we ever do to her? I mean, other than steal her home right out from under her feet, that is.
"Kelo, one of the last holdouts, earlier this year accepted a $442,155 settlement, more than $300,000 above the appraised value of her home in 2000. Her pink cottage will be moved elsewhere in the city. She has until June 15 to move."
Oh, for Pete's Sake. I understand the underpinnings of this situation, but this woman was MORE than compensated for her inconvenience.
But then, I see my current home and every piece of real estate I've owned before it as an investment. She made an amazing return on her dollar. Her anger is going to eat her alive.
She should have.
Kelo apologized . . .
She shouldn't have.
"It's amazing anyone could be so vindictive when they've made so much money," said Gail Schwenker-Mayer, . . . .
Guess the 9/11 widows who made a bundle should be all kissy-face to the muzzies who destroyed their lives.
May his pig never grunt, may his cat never hunt,
May a ghost always haunt him in the dead of the night,
May his hen never lay, may his ass never bray,
May his coat fly away like an old paper kite;
May the lice and the fleas the wretch ever tease,
May the pinching north breeze make him tremble and shake,
May a four-year-old bug build a nest in the Iug,
Of the monster that murdered Nell Flaherty's Drake.
May his cock never crow, may his bellows ne'er blow,
And a-pot or po, may he never have one,
May his cradle not rock, may his box have no lock,
May his wife have no smock to shield her back bone,
May his duck never quack, and his goose turn quite black
And pull down the turf with his long yellow beak.
May scurvy and itch, not depart from the breech,
Of the monster that murdered Nell Flaherty's Drake.
They don't get it.
I'm sorry that the poor lady felt the need to apologize.
None of us own anything when the government can take everything. Hell, this all just makes the USA the USSR with a better economy.
You stole her house at gunpoint under color of law you b@#$% !
It's amazing anyone could be so vindictive when they've made so much money
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It doesn't matter what the payoff is when it's against your will and done so illegally according to our constitution and our common sense.