Dave Berkman gets it almost right.
March 24th, 2006
In this week’s Media Musings column in
“The story was about an Ohio homeowner incensed that her house had been seized under eminent domain to turn the land on which it stood into a private shopping and condo development. It was, ailment she insisted, physician ‚Äúsocialism??? at its worst.
Yeah, right. Socialists are notorious for their ties to private real estate developers.
Laws allowing home seizures to benefit commercial interests are wrong. But you can be sure that had Socialists been governing her town, no seizures to benefit the private sector would have ever been permitted.”
That’s right. Because her property would already have been seized by the State.
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1. Melinda Omdahl | March 25th, 2006 at 10:07 am
Along with everything in her wallet… and given to someone poorer than her. And- thus- obviously more deserving of those things than herself.
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