Get Real: down sizing the big easy part 13

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February 01, 2006

down sizing the big easy part 13


this bastardly 

doodly do right type

'hahvid ' campus crawler

  slide rule eddie  gleaser phd

 is starting to really 

        get on my nerves...



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he commence's

 a recent op ed thusly...



"MUCH OF the discussion

 of the planned rebuilding

 of New Orleans

 has been mired 

in nostalgia 

  and unrealistic expectations"

don't  hear him snarling 

         this

  like  oh i don't know

maybe 

Capra's  mister Potter  

no our man here

he's more like zuzu's dad 

so he'snot cross

he's well ... fed up and  disgusted

 and  cynical and fed up again 

 with the  dumb bell hoi blobs

out there in the lower case world 

shit  

he'd like to help em 

but 

the nimbociles don't see 

               the light 

                that floweth from  his lamp 

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next  we gotta hear him 

  croaking at

  

what he seems 

amazed to find out

 the rehab

 is a SUPER DUPER Mr Potter type plan 

and its 

steam rolling  right along

  here's his  

 all points bulletin 

"  we are in danger

 of doing a far worse job 

rebuilding New Orleans 

than rebuilding Baghdad"

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so goes his moods 

as his golden  middle view 

    gets faduuzzled 

by  both  shady sides of the  reality street 



here's him on

 THE BRING NEW ORLEANS BACK REPORT 

in fact on this 

HE WRITES TARTLY AND WELL 

"a blueprint

 for a rebuilding process 

that is both wasteful and unfair"

 

 but then he scorns the hoi outcry 

" they're not gonna bring her back ..."

nope 

 HE NOT ONLY

 DON'T  CARE TWO SHITS

  ABOUT THE  great  DOWN SIZE 

HE THINKS 

".. this is the one thing 

the commission got right"

HE  goes on to SNIFF 

" Our obligation is to people

             not places"

THEN IN WORDS THAT BARELY HINT

   AT THEIR HIDDEN  GULLERY

AND THE MENACE HE 

WILL INADVERTENTLY ENDORSE 

HE COMMENTS FURTHER:

" many residents of New Orleans 

would be better off with cash 

or portable housing,

 or education vouchers 

than with tens of billions

 of dollars of infrastructure spending"



TRUE ENOUGH

if that were a real option



but watch as 

 he turns into the typical

         ivory tower boob:

".. the report requires neighborhoods 

to develop plans to justify their reconstruction

 but it doesn't elaborate on what criteria

 will be used to judge these plans"

 of course not you clown

  its a bag job 

no hash marks 

cause everybody thats no body will lose 

thats why 

u don't sniff at

"nostalgia 

  and unrealistic expectations"

in the  mass struggle 

  you mobilize what works

if that means y demand

" rebuild it 

just like it was

       for all of us "

thats the line pal 

and  u fight for it 

not run around going

" correction correction"

like a fucking pain in the ass prig 

the big boys can

simply

 blow right off the table top 

any time they need to  

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he oughta have on a pinz-nez

and use a pointer 

for the following 

" The absence of clear

 well-justified rules 

 based on cost-benefit analysis...

 will inevitably lead 

to claims of arbitrariness 

and political decisions"

  hear that superior ivy whine ??

it has both 

 truth smugness 

   and ultimate 

 dodo hood  co habin' in it 

imagine this 

potter  to glaeser :

"  doc let me wise you up ...

  "we"....

the they 

up there above it all

the same we

that made this plan 

we will do it our way 

see 

we will remake 

your formerly  mean 

now  by act of god

    flooded  streets ....just the way 

       we 

intend to 

and that calls for  

 a tower penthouse hatched

           mystery process

we 

do not intend 

to be second guessed

 by our own 

       final numbers



so .... we 

  ain't providing

   any   rules of scoring 

       so get this straight ..see

               we

           don't need 

           no stinking rules....see

        this is our deal

              we're

              large and  

             so we're in charge  see  ....

blah blah blah 

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more glaeser :

" the report provides 

no funds to those people

 especially renters

 who live in neighborhoods 

that will not be rebuilt"

potter again:

jesus jerk off 

thats our edge here 

our built in pot of goodies

wake up

 don't waste our time 

calling us out 

we offer profits 

to ourselves

 doc

 profits 

not  square offers  

to others 

 nor payments 

nor

even  promises  

its a free fire zone

 and may our dear lord  jesus 

take the hind most 

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i'll drop potter here

and do on with the doc 

" Much of this rebuilding 

will be financed by federal dollars

 and justified as disaster insurance

 for the people of New Orleans

 But federal disaster insurance 

shouldn't just help those people

 who live in the fortunate neighborhoods 

that will be rebuilt"

  oh ya sez who ???

" federal disaster insurance should ...."

 stop right there nutcake

               when ever is a 'should' 

                     also an  'is '????



undaunted he proceeds 

   "....should provide funds 

to help all the hurt people 

in the best way possible ...."

 here jimmy stewart here ?



" which may not mean 

  providing infrastructure"

hey pal providin infra structure 

is what gets me a job 

thats a  capra hard hat talkin ...

" Residents who lived in areas 

that won't be rebuilt are entitled...."

to absolutely nothing fuck head 

thats me the baron at long last fed up ....

but i'll let him hang himself

soft ..we listen 



 "...entitled to 

insurance payments 

that are just as generous 

as those going to the people

 in areas that will receive

 the benefits of federal 

  infrastructure spending"

 'come fly with me

come fly away .....'

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but now we come 

to the real why ...

the why i'm doing this post

instead of hustling up

a few house deals 

 out there   for 

                .....my ladies 

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prof:

"The largest line item 

in the report is $12 billion 

for buying housing in New Orleans

.... this money is to be used

 along the lines suggested by the baker bill

 ( federal spending that could top $50 billion)



and what is that ??



" a poorly conceived scheme 

involving buying and 

rebuilding homes in the region"

you poor fool

crying out about this 

fuck its  like screaming

"stop this..

stop this madness

  why why

 they're beating on  each other... "

 at  a boxing match 



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  so outraged at this biz as usual shit

he retraces its hallowed stages for us 



" houses will first be bought"

  right and not from

the ass hole original owner either

we skinned them long ago

 nope bought by uncle  from..uz specs 

" then rehabilitated at federal expense"

  yup its called 

leverage ape brain 

" then sold back 

to the original residents 

or potentially someone else"

with a heavy tilt toward

            the latter eh wash out ???

okay  okay okay

u say 

but baron 

 why mock a fool ???

here's why 

 as mister fairness as this above sounds

watch him bar the way 

  to  real " people first" solution

watch the baby tossed out with

 the dirty water 

watch his blow up 

see 

whats wrong here fundementally wrong

  so far as the profs concerned 

isn't this neo guilded age 

 private public hog slop 

                         

nope 

tothis  know it all

 pompous shit slide ....

the lesson we need  recall is 



" Decades of public housing projects 

.... have taught us 

...the federal government

 is not a good real estate developer"



and 

since  low density public housing 

is indeed the answer here

in fact the only answer 

  if we are to see 

 a full restoration 

of the old  pre flood city 

(plus a little discrete 

"update 'n facelift ")



the harvard professor here 

by claiming 

 the only way uncle can build

 is worse then  the worse private bad ....

blocks the avenue of justice



well  that makes me ....

sorry 

iwas  about to  repeat myself ...

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but to show my point most clearly

he scolds the  baker bill

 for offering 

" .. nothing to take care

 of renters who predominated 

in neighborhoods Katrina hit hardest"

" If this bill is passed

 billions will be spent 

on outlays that will create

 only the slightest benefit

 to those Katrina hurt most"

  so his answer

at least pay the poor fucks for their loss 

but don't rebuild their community

  this from a ....jew probably a zionist 

amazing 



 his kiss off lines:

"New Orleans will remain a great city

 but that great city

 can and should be much smaller 

than it has been in the past"

 

Edward L. Glaeser 

is a professor of economics 

and director of the Rappaport Institute

 for Greater Boston 

at Harvard University's 

Kennedy School of Government.