[Rhodes22-list] for Brad's eyes and those who reason only ...

Herb Parsons hparsons at parsonsys.com
Sun Nov 9 09:38:43 EST 2008


Brad,

Do you think the founding fathers EVER envisioned the notion of taking 
property from productive citizens in order to provide housing for 
non-productive citizens when they limited the ability of the gubment to 
take private property to being taken for "public use"?

Brad Haslett wrote:
> Ed,
>
> Excellent read from Dr. Sowell, thank you.  I wish for the sake of our
> country I could find something in his observations to disagree with.
> Unlike the rabid left for the last eight years, I shall refrain from
> attacking the man (POTUS) and stick to dissecting his policies - there
> will be no shortage of detestable items to attack. The press will fall
> out of love soon enough and perhaps will return to their original
> mission.
>
> My brother and I have been busy the last few days on a government
> sponsored mission.  Our neighbor's property next to our business was
> purchased for Section 8 housing and they (the gubment) approached us
> to sell our corner.  My first response was, "great, we'll build a
> strip mall with a liquor store, pawn shop, and laundry mat". That did
> not please them.  We're looking for a new place to locate as they are
> pretty serious about buying and will just seize it through eminent
> domain if we can't agree on a price.
>
> Brad
>
> On Sun, Nov 9, 2008 at 6:09 AM, Tootle <ekroposki at charter.net> wrote:
>   
>> Brad:
>>
>> Have you read this discussion by Thomas Sowell?  Too much reading for most
>> on this forum, so posted for Brad voracious reading appetite.
>>
>> http://media.hoover.org/documents/uk_sowell_transcript_conflict_visions.pdf
>>
>> Ed K
>>
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