This is an example of well meaning people can disagree and still be in sync on most things.
Personally, I was in favor to the Trans Texas corridor. All such projects, like the interstate highways system back in the fifties, use imminent domain for right of way for those projects. That is a legitimate use of ID. Rarely do the landowners and the government agree on the value of the land.
I well remember back in the eighties they were going to build a Super Conducting Super Collider just south of Dallas. Some people who were displaced had been on their land for generations, more than 100 years. One old lady had lived in the same house all her life and she was ninety. It was her parents’ house and she was born there. Made no difference, she lost it.
Regretfully, just as they were about to start construction, after a couple of billion had been spent and lots of jobs had been lined up, the Democrats came in and cancelled it. All the land, as far as I know, still sits vacant and I guess the government still owns it.
The Swiss recently built a similar project and the media is raving about its potential.
I know the TTC was not going to be owned, built or operated by the state but that was even better in my mind.
I also have a vague memory of Perry’s plan to send the Texas National Guard to the Texas border when Bush was President but that seemed to die on the vine. I don’t remember why.
I wasn’t too pleased with Perry’s attempt to make that anti-whatever drug mandatory for high school girls but overall I think he has done an excellent job. Texas ranks very high in many categories because of his efforts.
Yes, and it will never come. The Federal government and many states are OUTRAGED that Arizona has passed a law with the same language as existing (unenforced) federal law.
This is why Arizona's solution is a way to get SOME enforcement.