Property Rights: 1, Greedy Landgrabbers: 0
The KELO decision has said that “Public Use” is when the Mayor gives your property to his political buddies who’ll use it better than you now do.
The Arlington Heights case was a nice victory—a P.R. victory, not a legal one. Shouldn’t be necessary.
The Supreme Court continues to find secret writing in the Constitution, written in invisible ink that only reveals itself when you piss on the document.
Demned peons, who do they think they are? Elites? WE the Leaders of Society grant them their rights and WE can take them away, right? Peasants! They must do as they are told!
Dang you Suidae! you got my words down before I did.
If there’s a “blighted area”, there has to be a better solution than forcibly taking it and selling it to someone else. This application of eminent domain just flies is the face of property rights and justice as I understand the terms.
Stossel is a crackpot, brought up in a home in which the
Thanksgiving prayer was an emphasis on conspicuous consumption and a straight-faced, eyes-closed affirmation that being greedy is tomorrow’s greatest urgency.
He is to be laughed at.Posted by Spats Diamond
06/13/2007 at 10:32 AM
We have a different take on that situation here. The city is pushing Section 8 outward and boy is it having terrible results - one area is becoming a war zone, where I am businesses are leaving (and I’m talking places that were here when I was growing up here and are still doing well) and in most of the others people are just complaining of the noise, terribly kept ‘rentals’ and this whole thing just being forced upon the areas. . .
We won’t mention that the downtown is becoming uber yuppie condo ville - which is part of the cause of this problem.
So since the city can’t get taxes from those who are living on entitlements - and they got investments into turning the empty lofts, wharehouses and department stores into condos and so we who chose to live in the suburbs have to take the urban blight entitlement crowd into our neighborhoods whether we want to or not.
Did I mention that they are busy raising our taxes (even when we voted them down)? And does anyone have to wonder why this area is dying? Could it be that the people that are benificial to prosperity and contribute to the well being of the city are being forced farther and farther away? And what’s left - the entitlement crowd who take but contribute nothing.
