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Finally, who are you that you think a businees deal needs your (or even my) consent?

Two words: Eminent Domain.

President Reagan observed in his farewell address to the nation:

Ours was the first revolution in the history of mankind that truly reversed the course of government, and with three little words: "We the people." "We the people" tell the government what to do, it doesn't tell us. "We the people" are the driver, the government is the car. And we decide where it should go, and by what route, and how fast. Almost all the world's constitutions are documents in which governments tell the people what their privileges are. Our Constitution is a document in which "We the people" tell the government what it is allowed to do. "We the people" are free. This belief has been the underlying basis for everything I've tried to do these past eight years.
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That is fundamentally opposed by what W and the globaloney despots are up to. They are fundamentally opposed to "We the People." Reagan never was. He also led a great tradition, unlike W, and now you... of stopping runaway governments that get too big for their britches...as he said in that same speech:

But back in the 1960s, when I began, it seemed to me that we'd begun reversing the order of things — that through more and more rules and regulations and confiscatory taxes, the government was taking more of our money, more of our options, and more of our freedom. I went into politics in part to put up my hand and say, "Stop." I was a citizen politician, and it seemed the right thing for a citizen to do.
I think we have stopped a lot of what needed stopping. And I hope we have once again reminded people that man is not free unless government is limited. There's a clear cause and effect here that is as neat and predictable as a law of physics: As government expands, liberty contracts.

I don't think we need to belabor that W totally rejects this classical Founders formulation of governance and liberty. His Big Govermentism...and his "One Family" North American Unionism trumps all other concerns.

And this isn't just Texas. Bush has had extensive talks with Fox and the Canadian Presidents on this...and has given millions of Federal Money to subsidize planning the Texas Corridor Project.