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[thefinalsound]

This is complete crap! Apparently ownership means nothing anymore.

Homes may be 'taken' for private projects

The Supreme Court ruled Thursday that local governments may seize people's homes and businesses - even against their will - for privately owned economic development projects. Leave a comment

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[mr_jaeger]

Well...that's a pretty well biased poll you're looking at there. totally tilted by self-interest. Sure the 98% of the proletariat of this country who control less than 10% of the wealth would vote no because of their own petty self-interest. They can only see the same thing happening to themselves down the road someday and fear the idea that their house...in some cases the house they've lived in for 5 decades...could be taken away at any minute and turned into a day spa and office park. Totally biased.

that 98% doesn't have the objectivity and broad perspective of the upper 2% who actually control over 90% of the country's wealth. You see, THEY...marvelous, ethical, right-minded and never greedy THEY...have the vantage point to see that these kinds of public works will benefit the city and generate a lot of money which they can then claim is being funnelled back into the community and various charitable institutions. And it gets better! See, if these office parks thrive, it means they can create new jobs from which they earn twice or more in profits what they pay their office drones...this means that they can become even MORE rich, separate themselves even FURTHER from the plight of the common man, and get an even BETTER vantage point. Think about it. The higher we raise them into the stratosphere of fantastic wealth and the more we keep ourselves mired in poverty, the more likely it is that they will be able to lead us objectively and sympathize with us...

i sure am glad the supreme court saw it that way, and didn't listen to the people who actually stand to lose from this whole venture. that could have been cataclysmic.