{"id":948,"date":"2009-11-12T21:39:47","date_gmt":"2009-11-13T02:39:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/?p=948"},"modified":"2023-11-13T10:50:57","modified_gmt":"2023-11-13T15:50:57","slug":"pfizers-phinal-phlip-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/pfizers-phinal-phlip-off\/","title":{"rendered":"Pfizer’s Phinal Pflip-Off"},"content":{"rendered":"

Pfizer is abandoning the New London, CT site where their greed led to abolishing property rights for every single American.<\/p>\n

The city of New London sold 24 acres of land to Pfizer for ten bucks, but Pfizer didn’t want to have to look at the older houses that dotted the waterfront.\u00c2  They claimed they wanted the property to build hotels and convention centers, so the city used eminent domain to force people out of their homes, with the intention of handing their property over to Pfizer.\u00c2  It resulted in a legal battle that went all the way to the Supreme Court.<\/p>\n

Eminent domain, which was intended for building public works like roads, bridges, dams and the like, had been abused by local governments for decades.\u00c2  They’d confiscate private property and hand it over to companies.\u00c2  This was a chance to put an end to it.<\/p>\n

The Court, once again demonstrating their supreme ignorance of the constitution<\/a> and the intent of the founding fathers, issued a 5-4 ruling saying such theft was perfectly OK.\u00c2 \u00c2  The ruling essentially eliminated private property.\u00c2  Anyone could lose their home or business if anyone else could convince a few local politicians they’d pay more property taxes or build a prettier building.<\/p>\n

Pfizer promised over three thousand new jobs and tax payments of $1.2 million dollars a year.\u00c2  They built their facility and moved 1400 people there.\u00c2  Now, in an attempt to prove they’re even viler than we thought, they’re pulling most of them out, and are looking to sell or lease the property.\u00c2  The grand hotels and convention centers they promised to build on the property they stole from the homeowners never materialized.\u00c2  Those lots are now covered with rubble.<\/p>\n

So now, after flipping off every property owner in the country, Pfizer is giving the final finger to the town that helped them create the mess.\u00c2  I can only surmise that Pfizer has some mad scientists in their research division who have figured out how to distill pure evil into a pill, which they provide to their executives, the politicians of New London and at least five Supreme Court Justices.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Pfizer is abandoning the New London, CT site where their greed led to abolishing property rights for every single American. The city of New London sold 24 acres of land to Pfizer for ten bucks, but Pfizer didn’t want to have to look at the older houses that dotted the waterfront.\u00c2  They claimed they wanted […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/948"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=948"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/948\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2346,"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/948\/revisions\/2346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}