[Yosemitest]

If you're backing SOCIALIST Trump for President, ponder this .

Donald Trump and Eminent Domain, August 22nd, 2015

... More, Trump has publicly defended the confiscation of private property for eminent domain, even when the use for which the property is confiscated is purely private in nature:

Trump consistently defended the use of eminent domain.
Interviewed by John Stossel on ABC News, he said:
"Cities have the right to condemn for the good of the city.
Everybody coming into Atlantic City sees this terrible house instead of staring at beautiful fountains and beautiful other things that would be good."
Challenged by Stossel, he said
that eminent domain was necessary to build schools and roads.
But of course he just wanted to build a limousine parking lot.

Once again, this is Donald Trump's vision of private property rights when he was just another private citizen.
Imagine how much more damage he could do as the leader of the Federal executive branch.

Thomas Sowell called it CORRECTLY !

...Trump boasts that he can make deals, among his many other boasts.
But is a deal-maker what this country needs at this crucial time?
Is not one of the biggest criticisms of today's Congressional Republicans
that they have made all too many deals with Democrats,
betraying the principles on which they ran for office?

Bipartisan deals -- so beloved by media pundits -- have produced some of the great disasters in American history.

Contrary to the widespread view
that the Great Depression of the 1930s was caused by the stock market crash of 1929,
unemployment never reached double digits in any of the 12 months that followed the stock market crash in October, 1929.

Unemployment was 6.3 percent in June 1930 when a Democratic Congress and a Republican president made a bipartisan deal that produced the Smoot-Hawley tariffs.
Within 6 months, unemployment hit double digits --
and stayed in double digits throughout the entire decade of the 1930s.

You want deals?
There was never a more politically successful deall than that which Neville Chamberlain made in Munich in 1938.
He was hailed as a hero, not only by his own party but even by opposition parties, when he returned with a deal that Chamberlain said meant "peace for our time."
But, just one year later, the biggest, bloodiest and most ghastly war in history began.

If deal-making is your standard,
didn't Barack Obama just make a deal with Iran --
one that may have bigger and worse consequences than Chamberlain's deal?

What kind of deals would Donald Trump make?
He has already praised the Supreme Court's decision in "Kelo v. City of New London" which said
that the government can seize private property to turn it over to another private party.

That kind of decision is good for an operator like Donald Trump.
Doubtless other decisions that he would make as president would also be good for Donald Trump,
even if for nobody else.

[ghosthost]

how many black people voted for Obama, because I forget. Oh right, every single one of them. Vote Trump.

[poinq]

The criticism of the republican congress is not that they have made deals. The problem is that they make bad deals. And many times the things “we” get are really for big republican lobbyists and against most of us republicans. We as republicans don’t want government handouts to big business. We are against government handouts period.

To stand pat and not get anything passed, is also costing us a lot of criticism. And it costs us when we have to pass a budget. So we have to deal sometimes. And we would like to get good deals. Not deals that pay off republican lobbyists at the expense of republicans.

What Sowell is missing, is that republican cronyism is not conservatism. There is nothing in the conservative theory that says handouts to businesses or increasing immigrants for businesses is conservative. Free market is conservative. But businesses will abandon free market and use cronyism if it works better.

One big difference between republicans and democrats, both hate cronyism, but republicans think its governments fault for taking the money. And democrats think its business’ fault for offering it. Trump is not accepting any and wants to be President. I think thats a step in the right direction.

[Lagmeister]

What utter crap.

[duffee]

I believe Trump has stated that eminent domain made him rich.
Mississippi had a ballot initiative that passed and limits eminent domain to public use and prohibits the taking of private property otherwise. Haley Barbour strongly endorses Trump’s eminent domain, taking a persons farm to build a factory and giving them market value and nothing for being uprooted, leaving the family farm and starting over. Trump likes to “deal make” and negotiate, let him, the developer, do it with the property owner. These private real estate investments some time work out and properties become very valuable and then through eminent domain the developer can reap those profits through legalized theft.

[gogeo]

I wonder if a rubber swim cap will provide sufficient protection from bystanders?