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A BRACING NEW ERA OF HOPE AND CHANGE: ?Dozens of US cities may have entire neighbourhoods bulldozed?

By Glenn Reynolds

A BRACING NEW ERA OF HOPE AND CHANGE: “Dozens of US cities may have entire neighbourhoods bulldozed as part of drastic ’shrink to survive’ proposals being considered by the Obama administration to tackle economic decline.”

Best line: “People will enjoy living near a forest or meadow.”

UPDATE: Asking the tough questions: “You can’t just return to nature by removing the streets and buildings. What will these non-urban buffer zones really look like? Even if it is something like a forest ? made of very fast-growing trees? ? or meadow, what sorts of animals ? rodent and human ? will run wild there?”

And reader Robert Tipton writes:

I don?t know, the meadows line is certainly terrific, but I liked: “Decline is a fact of life in Flint. Resisting it is like resisting gravity.”

That line just absolutely captures the ?can do? spirit which exemplifies the American spirit - well, the heavily unionized and ?what will the government do for us? version of it, not that ?old-fashioned? kind which built Flint in the first place?

Hope and change!

Full post as published by Instapundit.com on June 13, 2009 (boomark / email).