Faster than a speeding bullet, Ned Lamont should rush to New Haven’s latest socialistic urban-renewal project. Pouring his inherited money into that effort would make socialist great-uncle Corliss Lamont proud.
A modest proposal: as his election prospects against Senator Joseph Lieberman grow dimmer, one-issue candidate Ned Lamont would be truer to his socialistic heritage by spending no more of his inherited fortune on the race. A more appropriate way to waste that money would be to fund New Haven’s latest pie-in-the-sky essay at government management of the economy. Socialists profess to believe in redistributing income equally; here’s a chance for Mr. Lamont to be true to his secular faith.
An op-ed piece by Jonathan Finer in the October 22 edition of the Washington Post details the feckless efforts of socialist urban planners to transform downtown New Haven into a model, planned city. In the 1960s, after high taxes and unrestrained industrial unionism had driven out the city’s last major manufacturing employer, the intellectuals took charge.
The center-piece of their design was the 10,000 seat Veterans Memorial Coliseum. Thirty years after its opening, the urban renewal area was still one of dead blight. As New Haven’s mayor noted when defending tearing down the Coliseum, it was so ineffective at urban renewal that no stores, not even a bar, had been able to survive around it.
But, in the shadow of Yale University, one of the world’s premier socialist trade schools, old socialist never die; their projects just slowly rot away.
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