Badbea in Scotland (colonies, economic, American, London)

[dizzybint]

Badbea was one of the clearance villages set up for poor people from the Glens who were taken forcibly from their homes in the Highlands and taken to these cold desolate beach settlements to "live" in the hope it seems that they wouldnt survive.. these places were treacherous , very cold with no shelter. how these souls survived, but survive they did.. On a visit to this place, it was eerrie, windy and cold.. and I could only marvel at how families survived in such harsh conditions. and this was all for the rich to have land for grazing sheep and for hunting.. how sad..


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Badbea Highland Clearance Village is a Must Visit Site

[jtur88]

Free Enterprise Capitalism. Just in the past decade, in Kelo v. City of New London, 545 U.S. 469 (2005), the Supreme Court ruled on the legality of eminent domain to transfer land from one private owner to another to further economic development.

The Scottish principle applied in Balbea is the bedrock (no pun intended) upon which rests the entire relationship between the rich and the poor, which passed on to the American colonies unalloyed.

[nightbird47]

Originally Posted by jtur88

Free Enterprise Capitalism. Just in the past decade, in Kelo v. City of New London, 545 U.S. 469 (2005), the Supreme Court ruled on the legality of eminent domain to transfer land from one private owner to another to further economic development.

The Scottish principle applied in Balbea is the bedrock (no pun intended) upon which rests the entire relationship between the rich and the poor, which passed on to the American colonies unalloyed.

I used to live in Riverside CA. One of the origional malls was torn down and so called spiffied up, except it wasn't a mall so when the weather was not good, it was deserted. But someone hatched the idea of getting redevelopment money but getting rid of the numerious small businesses surrounding it and 'upgrading the area'. But all those businesses got together and sued the developers. And WON. The oft deserted 'mall' is still there. The smaller businesses are still there. But small won a big victory over greed.