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  • Posted By: gobbledegook @ 11/03/2008 12:43:45 PM

    PASSPHRASE: "I'm Southern by grace of God." But remember, if that dog don't hunt, he ain't never caught a rabbit and he ain't no friend of Elvis. Even if he *is* Gomer.

  • Posted By: rube @ 11/03/2008 12:39:54 PM

    It never ceases to amaze me that philosophers, scholars, and writers in droves write about the current fleecing of our constitution our nation, and the American middle class all the while conservatives continue to flock to right wing evangelists, tabloid pundits and GOP theology all this after
    8 years of GOP subversion. What does tha nation have to show? An economy in shambles unfinished wars more on the horizon and debt so enormous China and other foreign countries now own much of our nations remaining equity! China a communist country no less!

    The neocons are deluded and are in major denial. You can vote for the same political disaster or you can vote for a new direction based around strengthing the middle class! Its the same old fear or the direction for hope of a stronger and better middle class!
    The oppisite of spreading the wealth is hoarding or monopolizing the wealth!
    The choice is clear!

  • Posted By: Nowforsomemoretruth @ 11/03/2008 12:36:04 PM

    And lets not forget the Court, and decisions like Kelo v. City of New London, 545 U.S. 469 (2005),

    What does redistributive mean? Well, remember that it was the liberal Left-Wing Justices of the U.S. Supreme Court that brought us this little jewel, holding that the government could take your real property, like your home, not for public use like a road or school, but to give to another private individual, such as a political contributor or other party hack or interest group. You remember this one.

    Kelo v. City of New London, 545 U.S. 469 (2005), was a case decided by the Supreme Court of the United States involving the use of eminent domain to transfer land from one private owner to another to further economic development. The case arose from the condemnation by New London, Connecticut, of privately owned real property so that it could be used as part of a comprehensive redevelopment plan. The Court held in a 5-4 decision that the general benefits a community enjoyed from economic growth qualified such redevelopment plans as a permissible "public use" under the Takings Clause of the Fifth Amendment. Justice John Paul Stevens wrote the majority opinion; he was joined by Justices Anthony Kennedy, David Souter, Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Stephen Breyer.

    The decision was widely criticized by American politicians and the general public. Many members of the general public viewed the outcome as a gross violation of property rights and as a misinterpretation of the Fifth Amendment, the consequence of which would be to benefit large corporations at the expense of individual homeowners and local communities. Some in the legal profession construe the public's outrage as being directed not at the interpretation of legal principles involved in the case, but at the broad moral principles of the general outcome.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelo_v._City_of_New_London

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