"Is it your contention that Kelo was a National Security issue?"
ANYTHING can be made a "national security issue." All one needs is "well, we could tell you why, but then we'd have to kill you, but we do have a 1,000-page classified report, so you're going to have to trust us."
And Eminent Domain over those port facilities will be expensive as hell--on the order of billions--and you're still not going to have buyers on the other side of the deal, because nobody's going to commit billions of dollars on a deal that could get reversed on a political whim. You'd end up with the federal government running those ports--and doing so with all the efficiency of the DMV.
Little old ladies with hair pins at Airports are "National Security Issues," but Islamists controlling U.S. ports aren't?
Lol...
"Eminent Domain over those port facilities will be expensive as hell--on the order of billions--and you're still not going to have buyers on the other side of the deal, because nobody's going to commit billions of dollars on a deal that could get reversed on a political whim. You'd end up with the federal government running those ports--and doing so with all the efficiency of the DMV."
With a national debt of 100 gazillion dollars, a few billion clams won't make much of a difference...will it? And as though Dubai is the ONLY country/entity willing to bid on the ports...