[Carry_Okie]

You are taking extreme liberties here with the truth.

Here is a balanced (although shallow) discussion of the former. Use of eminent domain for rights of way is, in my opinion, illegitimate and counterproductive. It destroys any potential speculative market in consolidating real estate options into rights of way, thus depriving property OWNERS from enjoying that return on their investment. Effectively, the very existence of eminent domain takings for such uses is an uncompensated taking of speculative value for public benefit. That is socialism lady. If it was truly necessary, then James J. Hill could never have put together the Great Northern Railway.

As to the latter, this is all I need.

Prove your baseless, shallow, and unsupported assertion or retract the charge.

[altura]

Or what?

People who know something about the subject and who are capable of a reasonable discussion have varying views about the Road.

Nothing would ever be built without eminent domain. It doesn’t take that much land and the owners are well compensated. The TTH was a bright idea and showed Rick Perry’s thinking outside the box as they say.

Perry took chances when he believed in something. He’s taken chances with a couple of stances in this race, as when he wouldn’t support corn gasoline in Iowa just to get votes. Santorum did.

He knows he’s taken an unpopular stance on the troops also, but it’s what he believes. He doesn’t trust Iran and he doesn’t think our troops should have given years of their lives only to be pulled out as a political ploy.