Anybody want to comment on the situation where small business owners are being "asked" to give up their income for a period of time to serve the public interest and without compensation?
It reminds me of all the aviation-related business that were forced into bankruptcy when the TSA banned general aviation from urban areas after 9-11.
I'm not saying that closing down RV parks (or airports) is necessarily a bad idea under certain circumstances, but what ever happened to the 5th Amendment? Isn't this a taking of private property for public use?
I have often said that the Bush administration has violated every single one of the Bill of Rights except the Third.
Maybe this will make the list complete if soldiers are to be quartered at these RV parks.
Naturally, there more to the story about businesses being closed than is apparent from news stories. The curtailing of boat rentals, tours, and overflights can at least be excused over security concerns, and speaking as a former retailer I can tell you the loss of business, while unwelcome, should not be too harmful. But you do have a point about uncompensated loss- everyone else who stays open will probably make money hand over fist.
Naturally, the local authorities are claiming- at least unofficially- that this will be compensated by the surge in publicity. IMO, that's hogwash- a week from now, the site of the G-8 summit will be a distant memory to most people. Bear in mind we were all promised that the spillover from the 1996 Olympics would make us all rich & famous, and I am still waiting for my share of either...
"I have often said that the Bush administration has violated every single one of the Bill of Rights except the Third."
yawn
Might it be because lawyers from Texas are more full of themselves than the basic history making up the foundations of our worthy American Heritage ... that is, they are Yale'ees in big hats? There may be some connection, also, with how "influential" Lyndon Baines Johnson & Co. were, too.