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Originally Posted by Da Nag
I'll go out on a limb, and suggest your willingness to have your neighborhood turn into a slum is not universal.
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Probably, you are right. OTOH, we do give in to hostage situations too. We get a great short term benefit and we don't worry about the long term implications. So you want the govt to help these people out of this mess and so they can move on to another mess? Just like a hostage situation. You get the hostages out today with some tricks. Well, somebody else comes along with a counter-plan to take hostages and get away with it. Now you endanger another bunch of people. OTOH, if the hostage idea didn't work from the get-go, people are less likely to try that same trick again. If it almost work, they will come up with a new angle that might work. No thanx. Govt intervention has not had the greatest history, has it?