"We think right now it's at a tipping point where the housing values will drastically decrease and it will become a very blightedarea, " says Payne.
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New treasury chief John Snow could save the U.S. and the West immense grief in post-Saddam Hussein Iraq and the Middle East by pushing pro-growth economic policies in that blightedarea.
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He said he thought the road widening was important as it would bring jobs to an areablighted by high unemployment.