Wednesday, October 31, 2007

Why is Emeryville Prospering while Berkeley and Oakland Flail?

Pro Commerce advocate, Michael Phillips, has an interesting piece on how promoting commerce can make a city prosper.

The question of whether government policy can fortify commerce or stultify commerce has a very simple answer: it can.  The empirical proof is the town of Emeryville.

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The difference: Berkeley is run on the principles of Cuba, by Left wing ideologues and Oakland is run on the systems common in Nigeria, corrupt-cronyism.

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There you have it: empirical, visual evidence of what works and what doesn't work.  Pro commerce is prosperity, anti-commerce is crime, depression, boredom and malaise.

And a nice fly over video of Emeryville:

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