Payback Is A Bitch
Aug 31st, 2006 at 12:43 pm by Susie
I can’t say I have all that big a problem with this. I mean, is it somehow more immoral than when the rich seize the assets of the people?
CARACAS, Venezuela — Perched in a green and forested aerie in the city’s southern hills, the exclusive Valle Arriba Golf Club has long offered its members a breathtaking view and a pleasant escape from urban cacophony and congestion.
Now, a staunch ally of President Hugo Chavez wants it.
Caracas Mayor Juan Barreto announced late Tuesday that the municipal government planned to seize two elite country clubs, Valle Arriba and the Caracas Country Club, and redevelop them as low-income housing projects.
The planned seizures were justified as part of Chavez’s federal policy to redistribute privately owned land to the poor. The takeovers, which have included farmland and apartment buildings, are roiling the social and political scene just as the presidential campaign is kicking off. [...]
In Caracas, Barreto’s officials say the takeover is prompted by a housing shortage and is permitted under the Chavez land law, which gave the government sweeping new powers to seize property that it deemed idle, misused, illegally acquired or not contributing to “social goals.”
Somebody’s been watching their George Carlin! (He suggested putting up affordable housing on golf courses. After that, cemetaries.)
(Housing on what are currently cemetaries, that is. Not cemetaries on golf courses.)
If anything is going to get this guy taken out messing with rich people’s golf courses will.