Posted on 08/22/2015 5:25:55 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
If we were not letting millions of people into this
country there would not be the demand for
new malls, apartments, schools etc.
As a junior in High School, I entered a door reserved for seniors, I’m so glad that I chose not to run for President. That misdeed would have warranted a 10 page critique in some liberal rag if I had the misfortune to achieve some political traction as a conservative. Were I a liberal, innumerable rapes and murders would be totally ignored.
As a junior in High School, I entered a door reserved for seniors, I’m so glad that I chose not to run for President. That misdeed would have warranted a 10 page critique in some liberal rag if I had the misfortune to achieve some political traction as a conservative. Were I a liberal, innumerable rapes and murders would be totally ignored.
Old people. Next there will be a story about Trump’s actions somewhere in time that harmed small children and puppies.
RE: It’s a waste of JimRob’s electrons to even post this.
I’m not certain if this is a waste. It was not too long ago when Conservatives at FR were FURIOUS with Justice Souter for his Kelo decision (which Trump supported ).
See here:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3303239/posts
and here:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3133626/posts
and here:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3119866/posts
and here:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2795958/posts
and here:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2773341/posts
and here:
No way man! She has the right to stop major upgrades and developments... No, wait, she doesn’t i guess that is why eminent domain laws were enacted. To stop cranks from holding off and blacmailing major developments.
And here’s what the great Jim Robinson said about Trump then:
See here:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2706770/posts?page=133#133
Post Number 133
Sure spin away. He offered way more than it was worth at the time. If some previous speculator offered more, she should have taken it. She won, just like Charlie Sheen.
No one cares.
...Until they come for them.
This clown Boaz has no problem attacking Trump (et tu Cato?)
This is a legislative problem not a private individual problem.
Towns and cities far and wide not only tolerate the process, they actively promote it!
Clueless bureaucrats and elected criminals have no problem evicting Aunt Matilda if it means a bigger tax base.
Fairness and common sense should make the practice illegal.
It's simply not possible for any individual to make it happen. It's been common since the 60s. I had decades of personal experience fighting it.
It requires the active participation of useless bureaucrats and elected criminals to exist at all.
Blame Trump?
GIVE ME A BREAK!
He was wrong on this. I like The Donald and admire his run but he was and is wrong on this.
In the Kelo case— there is now a vast empty area where the houses in New London were located. Pfizer pulled out and shut down their “R&D” facility-AFTER they pushed the people out at a “fair” price (not). Why did they leave? Because Pfizer is NO longer (distinguished from it’s WWII credits) an R&D pharma company. The history over the last 12 years plus has been— “acquire a company” for a “revenue stream” of their products (hence not needing any real creation of their own) to pump up their stock value with “revenue” cooked in the books, then fire all the employees in the acquisition and “market” the products.
Don’t let anyone tell you, having acquired Parke-Davis/Warner-Lambert, Upjohn/Pharmacia, and the behemoth Wyeth-— that Pfizer has invented anything (aside from the prick pill viagra- how fitting) and is largely responsible for the “buying” of Congress to get obamaumao-care approved. Why? so that in it’s supposed “business” plan, it’s number one partner is to be the US govt. and the verrry few insurance companies left- so that Pfizer can control most of the market of medicines in any category dispensed and paid for by govt. agencies and the mandated “taxed” “insured” general public forced to participate. In short— the very essence of corporate cronyism and venture socialism- the Eurotrash model. What all will notice is that, particularly for Pfizer, pharmaceuticals have not, as a result of these “efficiencies” reduced in price. This was never their intent- rather to push their margin and volume in government sanctioned price fixing. There is no way shape or form that this is conservativism- no matter the PR campaign.
Their actions in New London are but a living testimony of buying a Supreme Court decision (because they have the money to do so in various “covered” ways and “foundations”)and the extremely low regard for people’s property rights (not their OWN of course). A travesty.
I nearly got lucky with Drew Barrymore once.
CALIFORNIA TO SEIZE FARMS FOR JERRY BROWN’S WATER TUNNELS
by DANIEL NUSSBAUM18 Aug 20152,344
The State of California is planning to use eminent domain law to acquire hundreds of farms in the Delta for a controversial, multi-billion-dollar underground water tunnel project proposed by Gov. Jerry Brown.
According to documents obtained by environmental group Restore the Delta, state water exporters and the Delta Design Construction Enterprise (DCE) division of the Department of Water Resources are planning to acquire 300 pieces of land from Delta farms to ensure right of way for the Bay Delta Conservation Plan tunnel project.
The $15 billion project, under development for the last eight years, has long been favored by Brown, who wants to use the twin underground tunnels to move water from the northern part of the state to the south by diverting it around the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta.
But the project has faced stiff opposition from environmental groups like Restore the Delta and others who say the tunnels are not environmentally sustainable.
In a statement, Restore the Delta executive director Barbara Barrigan-Parilla blasted the “arrogance” of state officials for using eminent domain to acquire farmers’ land.
“While Delta and good-government activists are busy mobilizing comments in a democratic process, we discover state agencies view public oversight as simply a distraction,” Barrigan-Parilla said. “These documents arrogantly envision groundbreaking ceremonies as early as July 2016. Bulldozers and cement trucks are ready to roll! Red ribbons are budgeted! All for a $60 billion boondoggle without even one permit. Clearly, water officials under the Brown Administration view the Delta as a colony.”
Brown has tussled with environmental groups over the tunnels before. In May, the governor told critics of the proposal to “shut up, because you don’t know what they hell you’re talking about.” Brown said that “millions of hours” had gone into poring over every aspect of the tunnels, and has called the project an “imperative” that “must move forward.”
Yet despite the governor’s enthusiasm, the tunnel project has not yet been approved.
Water exporters and some agricultural interest groups support the tunnels. Californians for Water Security, a group made up of the California Chamber of Commerce and various farm and labor groups, has spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on television and radio advertisements in support of the project.
But California’s plan to use eminent domain to acquire the land has created an increasingly rare moment of unity between environmental groups and Delta farmers.
“It is wrong and premature that the Department of Water Resources has a unit creating a secret land acquisition plan to take 150-year-old farms, like ours, through condemnation,” Courtland farmer Richard Elliott said in a statement, noting that his family has never sold any of its land. “The entire plan doesn’t make for sustainable food policies, smart land use practices, or even common sense.”
According to the documents, the state would make Delta farmers one offer to purchase their land, after which the farmers would have 30 days to accept or reject a deal. But after those 30 days, the state could still plan to force the owners to sell using eminent domain law.
The plan also calls outright for minimal “external” oversight.
“All transactions are conducted, reviewed and approved internally by DCE staff and managers to maintain control and avoid unnecessary delays to schedule,” the documents state. “DCE shall seek to minimize external review and approval requirements.”
Tony Francois, an attorney at the Pacific Legal Foundation who specializes in water and property rights, tells Breitbart News that the use of eminent domain does not allow for a proper system of “checks and balances,” even for controversial state infrastructure projects.
“The fact that they don’t have the project approved has generally not been a bar to acquiring the property,” Francois said. “If the project is controversial, they don’t need any special approvals to acquire the property, and that starts making the project look more inevitable. [State contractors could say] ‘Hey, we’ve already spent the money acquiring the property, we better get started building it.”
Francois added that the use of eminent domain exempts the state from being subject to California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) environmental impact reviews, which have caused stalling on some infrastructure projects for years, or even decades.
“If these reports are correct, then we have further confirmation that the tunnels project has been a foregone conclusion,” state Sen. Lois Wolk (D-Davis) told the Associated Press on Monday. Wolk said the environmental impact review, “which should be used to choose a project, is simply being used to justify a favored project.”
Francois says the state is on solid ground for claims of eminent domain to acquire the property, as long as it can prove the water tunnel project constitutes a “public good.” Less clear, he says, is the issue of “just compensation” for the land the farmers will be giving up.
“Are they only taking the property they need for the underground tunnels, or are they taking the surface estate as well?” Francois said. “It’s the cutting [the land] up that creates a significant problem that farmers think they are not getting properly compensated for.”
According to the AP, the tunnel project is officially in a public comment phase until October.
So my question is: Why is it ok for California and not someone else? David Boaz is a liberal writer, and so is the people he writes for, and they really had to dig deep down to find something they think is so damning on Trump that this is going to turn our support away from him, I think NOT....
Thanks for posting this, but this has already been posted a while ago and indeed, sadly, no one seems to care.
It’s true there are no perfect candidates but it would be nice for someone to recognize this about Trump. So far on this thread miss marmelstein is the only one who seems to have the intellectual honesty to do so.
I certainly don’t think one issue can disqualify a candidate but his fans need to at least keep this in the back of their minds. One more or at most two and he should be tossed aside. Again, if we are intellectually honest here.
RE: Thanks for posting this, but this has already been posted a while ago and indeed, sadly, no one seems to care.
Two to three weeks ago, the post regarding Trump was about his support of the SCOTUS Kelo decision (authored by Justice Souter ).
This one is similar but a different case.
RE: Sure spin away.
That was NOT spin. That was FACT.
Now here’s a question for you ... 7 years later, Trump got OUT of Atlantic City ( as he conceded in the 10 man debate ), what would the Casino he built then be like today?
Has Trump or any other candidate advocated changing the existing laws concerning eminent domain?
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