Bloomberg said the city will only use the legal power of eminent domain to seize property as a last resort.

"My hope is that we don't have to use eminent domain at all," he said. "The city is going to do everything it can to come to an economic agreement where it's in everybody's best interest and it's a win-win."

An "economic agreement?" What the hell is that?

In New York, the vile Bloomberg is planning to resuscitate an area of New York near Shea Stadium through the use of eminent domain, that is, unless the residents bow to the threat of violence and turn over their land to the central planners and their developers-in-tow. Accordingly, the area known as Willets Point is suffering from too much blight and therefore needs an infusion of central planning in order to revive it. Reader David Z. writes, "Note that one of the aspects of the "blight" is the fact that the neighborhood has no sidewalks or sewers, is essentially a result of the city failing to provide sidewalks or sewers, even though the businesses in Willets Point pay taxes. Note also that although Willets Point has a reputation as a bad neighborhood, I have attended games at Shea Stadium a number of times over the past few years and have never felt endangered while walking to the stadium, which is more than can be said of many neighborhoods in Manhattan and the Bronx."

Says Michael "Eminent Domain" Bloomberg: "Times Square really was the poster child for a seedy, dangerous, unattractive, porno-laced place," the mayor said after announcing a renovation of Duffy Square at 47th Street. "Because of eminent domain and some forward-looking people in this city, they turned it into a place where 24 hours a day you're safe on the street."

Even better is this all-time great quote from the powermongering little twit:

"You would never build any big thing any place in any big city in this country if you didn't have the power of eminent domain," Mr. Bloomberg said, speaking at a ground-breaking ceremony in Times Square, which was redeveloped in part through government condemnation of private property. "You wouldn't have a job, neither would anybody else standing here today. None of us would."

"There are some in Albany and Washington," Mr. Bloomberg said, who do not "appreciate the crucial importance of eminent domain to our ability to shape our own future. They mistakenly equate it with an abuse of government power, and ignore the benefits that come to us all from responsible development of formerly blighted areas."

Imagine that. Imagine someone so drunk with connections and power that he has no shame in publicly claiming that eminent domain is not only necessary to provide for long-term benefits, but it is also economically beneficial because such an act provides jobs that cannot be created in the private sector. And outright theft through force and the threat of violence is not abuse - it is merely a "shaping of the future?" This guy outta be dropped on his head from a 30-story building, and then swept into the nearest "blighted" dumpster.