Petition: Say No to Stimulus Money for Atlantic Yards
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whatever ends up being built/should or shouldn’t be built/etc at Atlantic Yards doesn’t negate the need for the ‘platform’ to be built over the LIRR tracks and other infrastructure improvements. I would have no problem with that aspect of project getting funds and being done now.
Whatever the market picture looks like in a couple years will determine when/what gets built next.
I think as long as the money goes to rich white guys I am ok with that.
Xander Crews: Rude, disrespectful and wrong as per usual.
I signed the petition twice,
I.P. Freeley
and
Patty O’ furnature
The auto-correct of my spelling of “eminent domain” really could undermine my argument.
I think Obama should give the Atlantic Yards as much money as possible just to make sure his reign of retardation only lasts 4 years.
Not to mention development projects that are a complete giveaway to the developer without a proper public review. Did I mention my opposition to eminent domain for profit???
or it could become even more of an albatros. We should only subsidize projects that are in the public interest.
Sports arenas do not qualify, in my opinion.
Whatever one’s feelings are about the aesthetics of the project or the efficacy of imminent domain to obtain the requisite space you would have to admit that a construction development this large would require a workforce that the stimulus money is designed to help create.
Before I’m attacked politically, I am not a trickle-downer who believes that Ratner should get bailed out, I just see a lot of jobs being created by a big project like this going ahead.