Comments on: EMINENT DOMAIN FOR THE RICH http://citizentom.com/2008/07/08/eminent-domain-for-the-rich/ Welcome to Conservative commentary from Gainesville, Virginia. That's OUTSIDE the Beltway. Thu, 09 Feb 2012 12:50:27 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: JMB http://citizentom.com/2008/07/08/eminent-domain-for-the-rich/#comment-13600 Sun, 13 Jul 2008 21:20:17 +0000 http://citizentom.wordpress.com/?p=1211#comment-13600 Fantastic post – Kudos to you Tom. If the elected officials of our local government are driven by the views of private interests and ambitions, in the taking of property, how is the welfare and happiness of the people, in our nation to be the result. The insatiable thirst for control over a fellows property is inherent in faction, and must never be sanctioned, if this is to be a Nation of the Free. The forced servitude of a persons labors in property are considerations that should not belong in the hands of our elected. Now under this new Kelo plan, no race of men will be off-limits. Now with this new scheme, all that will be required is just enough time for a person of intrest, to place his lifes savings, his hopes and dreams into the land he thinks is his own.

]]> By: Citizen Tom http://citizentom.com/2008/07/08/eminent-domain-for-the-rich/#comment-13563 Wed, 09 Jul 2008 22:30:42 +0000 http://citizentom.wordpress.com/?p=1211#comment-13563 The lawyers could probably make a legal case for the HOT Lanes, but the moral case stinks. Technically, the government still owns the right of way. And they are allowing HOV traffic.

What these people are up to is giving private companies a sweetheart arrangement. For a relatively small sum the company gets a monopoly. The competition is the publicly operated roads. Do you believe the companies who made this arrangement with the politicians did not also make arrangements with the same to weaken their competition?

The result is that only those who can afford to pay a nice fat premium will use the HOT. The high price will supposedly be justified because the drivers are alone in their cars. Everyone who is not doing the HOV gig is being “wasteful.” So we must suffer.

Google “personal rapid transit.” There are technical fixes to energy waste, but the politicians are too ignorant or lazy to care.

]]> By: kgotthardt http://citizentom.com/2008/07/08/eminent-domain-for-the-rich/#comment-13561 Wed, 09 Jul 2008 13:13:45 +0000 http://citizentom.wordpress.com/?p=1211#comment-13561 Seems to me you CANNOT use eminent domain for private/public partnerships. How is that legal? Eminent domain is a government right, not a private right. Hell no, we don’t want our roads in private hands!

“HOT lanes are special lanes that anybody but your typical commuter can use.” Can you explain this a little more, Tom?

]]> By: EMINENT DOMAIN FOR THE RICH http://citizentom.com/2008/07/08/eminent-domain-for-the-rich/#comment-13559 Wed, 09 Jul 2008 02:42:26 +0000 http://citizentom.wordpress.com/?p=1211#comment-13559 [...] Go to the author’s original blog: EMINENT DOMAIN FOR THE RICH [...]

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