Ball-O-Stupidity in Connecticut

This New York Times article about Pfizer closing its facilities in a city that had expropriated and demolished a neighborhood so that the company could build a “private urban village” (aaa! what?), leaving empty fields behind at the site of the ‘development,’ is just full of stupid. Unfortunately it all sounds very familiar. Except that the neighborhood residents took the city all the way to the Supreme Court, lost, and the conservative justices were the dissenters. Happily, 43 states have enacted legislation that will hopefully keep something similar from happening again. But, now I’m curious, what would Ayn Rand say?

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/13/nyregion/13pfizer.html?em