Burn Down the Suburbs?

National Review ^ | Aug 1, 2012 | Stanley Kurtz

[Chickensoup]

I have been thinking of this issue since I read the article on Rush and listened to Levin’s show the other night.

I was trying to think of how these policies would be implemented. The only thing that I could imagine it that the old time-honored standby: let the vandals loose to loot and pillage the countryside. Withdraw law enforcement from the rural areas that these policies would be supported to depopulate the countryside.

Only wealthy with security (read standing armies) would be able to stay in the countryside. This is becomeing more and more like 18th and 19th century England when the lands men were run off and the lands reverted to the nobility and gentry.

We are paddling way backwards folks.

[Chickensoup]

see post 61

[Darren McCarty]

The surprising part about Washtenaw County is that it's still mostly rural, with or without the greenbelts. Large multi-acre lots aren't uncommon away from the main development areas. Anything west of Dexter or Saline is all rural outside of Chelsea or Manchester. South of Ann Arbor or Ypsi is rural east of Saline until Milan. Farms still border Ann Arbor to the north going past my area until Whitmore Lake. Salem is mostly rural, still. Most of the building is in Scio, Pittsfield, or Superior Townships. Northfield has some by Whitmore Lake.

A lot of the new building is instead over in Dundee, Plymouth, Canton, South Lyon, or Livingston County

[cripplecreek]

Take a ride down 94 from Ann Arbor to Kalamazoo. Most of it is very rural and the I-94 corridor the most heavily populated swath across the state.

The utter stupidity of the whole thing is amazing. We’re going to buy up farmland and let it return to wilderness while they talk about farming in Detroit.

[Texas resident]

Doesn’t baraq own a house in a chicago suburb?
So does the rule apply to him?

ok, big time sarcasm here.

[virgil]

These measures won’t cut costs. They’ll just give them more taxpayers to squeeze.

[KeyLargo]

“These measures won’t cut costs. They’ll just give them more taxpayers to squeeze.”

Yes, and the direction of these big Democrat cities is to merge city, county and state functions in order to seize more tax money for redistribution to the cities.

[KeyLargo]

Kurtz being interviewed now.

http://www.wlsam.com/article.asp?id=152352