Trump: Eminent Domain "Wonderful"
From the article: "I think eminent domain is wonderful if you're building a highway and you need to build as an example, a highway, and you're going to be blocked by a hold-out or in some cases, it's a hold-out, just so you understand, nobody knows this better than I do, I built a lot of buildings in Manhattan and you'll have 12 sites and you'll get 11 and you'll have the one hold-out and you end up building around them and everything else," Trump said Tuesday on Special Report.
Hopefully, my prediction will come true and he will have faded away by march/April.
If one looks back at the actual elections- what did we get? Exactly the same philosophical corruptions you are identifying now. The winners all had terrible traits in one way or another, reflecting philosophical weaknesses or cronyism of their supporters. So if you say I have a low estimate of politics today, you are indeed correct, and I think I am correctly identifying how things are
How did Ron Paul do in his candidacy? Zero chance at election. How about rand Paul? Farthest either gets is congress. Imagine how far ayn rand would get today? Even libertarian candidates for president? Zero chance for election today.
I would say even trump has a slim chance of beating one of the democrats, but the other republican candidates have far less chances. Look at obamas election- twice !! He is an arrogant socialist who has us in two useless wars, has nearly bankrupted our dollar, presided over an out of control NSA, took over medical care without even reading the bill and flat out lying about it. What does that tell you about politics today? I am thinking Obama could be re elected AGAIN if he could run.
Trump's popularity is that he is a non politician , not part of the political establishment. He is not strangled by political correctness, and he is a successful businessman. Those things "might" get him a total of 271 ( I think that's the number) of the electoral college votes needed. It's a longer way off yet, but I just don't see any others of the current crop of repub candidates doing that
Trump is a poorly fabricated facade...yes, he would say I'm being mean to him, "bigly".
It is fully in accord with his blowhard campaign of personal smears and Pragmatist disregard for principles subjugated to "deals". He's not the only such power seeker in politics (or elsewhere), but it's frightening that he has been able to emotionally manipulate so many people to support him in a presidential campaign. People are thoroughly frustrated with politicians but don't understand the principles necessary to put the country back on track.
You should read Leonard Peikoff's The Ominous Parallels, in which he describes how Hitler came to power as the compromise candidate appealing to both sides in a battle between ideological socialists and conservative nationalists. Both sides embraced altruist sacrifice to collectivism, which is what they got.
You don't get to tell other people they should "take the money and run". The owner of the home in Atlantic City chose not to sell it and refused Trump's higher offers because they were irrelevant to her. You don't decide that.
Seizing a "right of first refusal" is a seizure of private property rights to sell to whomever one chooses at the price agreed on without government obstruction driving potential buyers away and driving down the market value. There is a long history of this abuse with broken promises and arrogant muscling of property owners because government was allowed to assume privileges over other people's property.
"wonderful" to seize other people's property. Unlike you, most of the country has been outraged over the Kelo decision that Trump supports. Trump is losing ground in the primary campaign over his increasingly revealed lack of substance. There is no basis for claiming he could defeat a Democrat a year from now, let along that is the only one who could. Your rambling lack of concern for private property rights does not address any of that. We will be discussing which of (most likely) only two candidates would do the least damage or whether it worth voting for either of them in a year. There is no excuse for gushing over Trump for what he is.
He is disruptive to the campaign discussions, that may be the only value he provides to it.
I believe this was the original intent of Eminent Domain.
I think the problem is, ED had no scope to its reach.
Should Trump be able to use ED to force that lady out of her house for the casino? No. But,she should have taken the money and ran.
Should ED be used to kick someone out of their house for a park? No. Maybe provide for the gov't getting right to first refusal should the owner wish to sell.
Should ED be used for roads, damn, etc. I'd say there's a case there.
I can't imagine the Interstate being built around peoples houses that refused to budge.
Believe it or not, that idea is something our biblical ancestors learned; but that is a different story.
McDonald's at one time the largest corporate landowner in the country went at it differently. They researched potential areas and bought enough land to put in a full shopping center and then sub leased the land back to the original owner often a farm on some lonely corner. Algona Iowa until they had a bridge built was this way. Waiting for the bridge to be built was McDonalds who had guessed correctly where the freeway would run.
The rest followed.
I see no other evidence of what DrZarkov99 has stated except freeways where every intersection is an excuse to build a new town.
So...thumbs up on this one. It's time to leave the cities to the rats and live like human beings.
Those of you from NEW Yark Ceetee to pun the Pace Picante Commercial will have not a clue but that can't be helped.
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