Talk:Edward Pilgrim
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Was his wife really "Martgaret", or is that a typo? My Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. vol. 44 has gone missing, or I'd check myself ;-) —Bunchofgrapes (talk) 15:58, 25 January 2006 (UTC)
- Typpo. Lunchtime, or I'd fixit meself. Geogre 16:14, 25 January 2006 (UTC)
The death date seems to be ambiguous in the article. Is is September 22 or September 24? jni 12:02, 26 January 2006 (UTC)
- Thanks. The way I work is by glancing over my notes to find the death date, typing it, and then going on, where, later, when I put the date in the narrative, I was not glancing but reading. I.e. the later date would be the right one. I've changed it. Geogre 12:42, 26 January 2006 (UTC)
[edit] "well-intentioned abuses of bureaucracy"
What is so well-intentioned about robbing people of their property without just compensation? --Jcmo (talk) 11:22, 12 February 2008 (UTC)
- The legislation was well intended. It was intended to prevent people defrauding the government by saying, "Right! Well, this here swamp land could become a great amusement park, so I want you to pay me millions." The fact that it was poorly executed is at the heart of things. The fact that it was blindly applied is the critical feature of red tape murder. Geogre (talk) 12:32, 12 February 2008 (UTC)
- But this law wasn't meant to be applied to useless land, was it? This law gave the Government the power to forcibly remove (some would say steal) land from its rightful owners, and use it for residencial or commercial purposes, while at the same time paying those owners a small compensation for that land, as if it was not fit for such purposes. --Jcmo (talk) 10:20, 13 February 2008 (UTC)
- You want to see Eminent domain, then. In the grand scheme of things, this one was pretty well intentioned, given the fact that there have been thousands of seizures for military uses (bombing ranges and the like), and even for resale to commercial developers. This one was to create public housing. Geogre (talk) 12:21, 13 February 2008 (UTC)
