“A man’s home is his castle,” Glenn Beck said on his TV show Wednesday. “A man’s home is the shelter from the storm. It’s been decorated by you, has your pictures. It is yours.”
But the poorest of the poor don’t have money to go against huge companies that want to take their homes for redevelopment projects, he said. The government, however, is happy to confiscate private property if it thinks doing so will bring in extra tax revenue.
He took the case of the Atlantic Yards project slated for Brooklyn, New York. “It’s about families that want to keep their homes — they don’t have any desire to move — but there are ton of tax dollars to be made. This isn’t about the developer. This is about the government getting tax dollars,” he said.
Bruce Ratner’s Forest City Ratner Companies, LLC, a megabucks real estate development firm, wants to move forward with the ambitious project.
Beck makes a good case that the families facing eviction to make way for the taxpayer-subsidized 22-acre mixed-use project are getting the shaft. The sprawling $4.9 billion complex would be built in the neighborhood of Prospect Heights and would include the Barclays Center, a proposed sports arena that would become the new home of the New Jersey Nets basketball team.
Curiously, Beck left out the ACORN connection.
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