[NavVet]

The irony is the left has no problem with the "corporate fat cat" taking the little guys property, as long as it is the benevolent government acting as the middle man. I wonder if they would feel the same way if the developer was Haliburton.

[ClearCase_guy]

You are correct. The important thing is that the following concept is established: "Little people cannot own anything. Government can act to take things away from you for your own good."

It doesn't matter if big corporations are enriched by this looting (for now). Their day will come. Looters get looted too. Eventually, the political class can own and control everything. Voila! The socialist state.

[pollyannaish]

Yes but that is the essence of their entire movement. Socialism/Communism works if the right people are running it. Of course when they refer to "the right people" it always means the altruistic and benevolent people known to them as "myself." Elitists one and all.