10/30/2004 06:41:47 AM|||Toni|||This is the model for what "Progressives" call benefiting all the people vs one person. Guess maybe those Ayn Rand books I read years ago had a major effect. I will say it again, people who call themselves "Progressives" are just using another word for Socialist. Plain and simple. They know that Socialist has a negative connotation so, knowing that at least 40% of the population isn't too bright, they came up with a new pseudo name for Socialist and that is "PROGRESSIVE". btw, if you've never read Ayn Rands "Atlas Shrugged" do yourself a favor and read it. Personally, I don't buy all the libertarian mantra but this will give you a look at a creeping destruction of a market driven economy to a socialist economy.

In 1997, when Susette Kelo bought her little house overlooking the Thames
River in New London, Conn., she had to hack her way through weeds and brush to
reach the front door. Renovations transformed the neglected Victorian into a
salmon-colored "show home," but today it's besieged by a creeping menace it will
take more than an ax to defeat.

Kelo's home stands in the way of progress -- at least, the city's idea of progress: a riverfront redevelopment project designed to make New London more comfortable for the Pfizer Corporation, which a few years ago built a research facility adjacent to the Fort Trumbull neighborhood where Kelo had made the mistake of settling. The city wants to hand Fort Trumbull over to a private developer who will use the land for a hotel, condominiums, offices and shops.

|||109913716799794713|||Creeping Socialism