Video Ted Cruz is For Eminent Domain Use

Conservative treehouse ^ | 2/8/16 | sundance

[bigtoona]

Senate Candidate Ted Cruz was for it, before he was against it…

[SampleMan]

God I’m sick of vapid Trump supporters. Its like prattling children.

How exactly Trump wins a general election with less a third of the GOP primary voters remains a total mystery to his sycophant supporters.

[Boogieman]

Complete lies and BS. Cruz is for eminent domain for PUBLIC USE, just like every CONSERVATIVE is.

Donald favors it to benefit HIS PRIVATE BUSINESSES, just like LIBERALS.

[UnwashedPeasant]

Conservatives support eminent domain for public need.

Trump supports eminent domain for private plunder.

YUGE difference!

[vbmoneyspender]

I live in Southern California as I believe you do and we've managed to survive fine without an NFL team for many years. If a rich owner wants to build a stadium in a particular area, the owner should do so on his own dime - like is being done with the Rams.

And by the way, look at what is happening in St. Louis. The Rams are moving away and the state of Missouri is going to get stuck with the bill for the debt that is still owed on the stadium they built for the Rams.

Missouri taxpayers still owe millions for the Rams' stadium they helped build

[Boogieman]

“How can something that will employ thousands, and be a host to millions per hear, be considered to only be for personal use?”

When Trump’s casinos start paying dividends to the taxpayers from their profits, you could make that argument...

[Yosemitest]

If you're backing SOCIALIST Trump for President, ponder this .

Donald Trump and Eminent Domain, August 22nd, 2015

... More, Trump has publicly defended the confiscation of private property for eminent domain, even when the use for which the property is confiscated is purely private in nature:

Trump consistently defended the use of eminent domain.
Interviewed by John Stossel on ABC News, he said:
"Cities have the right to condemn for the good of the city.
Everybody coming into Atlantic City sees this terrible house instead of staring at beautiful fountains and beautiful other things that would be good."
Challenged by Stossel, he said
that eminent domain was necessary to build schools and roads.
But of course he just wanted to build a limousine parking lot.

Once again, this is Donald Trump's vision of private property rights when he was just another private citizen.
Imagine how much more damage he could do as the leader of the Federal executive branch.

Thomas Sowell called it CORRECTLY !

...Trump boasts that he can make deals, among his many other boasts.
But is a deal-maker what this country needs at this crucial time?
Is not one of the biggest criticisms of today's Congressional Republicans
that they have made all too many deals with Democrats,
betraying the principles on which they ran for office?

Bipartisan deals -- so beloved by media pundits -- have produced some of the great disasters in American history.

Contrary to the widespread view
that the Great Depression of the 1930s was caused by the stock market crash of 1929,
unemployment never reached double digits in any of the 12 months that followed the stock market crash in October, 1929.

Unemployment was 6.3 percent in June 1930 when a Democratic Congress and a Republican president made a bipartisan deal that produced the Smoot-Hawley tariffs.
Within 6 months, unemployment hit double digits --
and stayed in double digits throughout the entire decade of the 1930s.

You want deals?
There was never a more politically successful deall than that which Neville Chamberlain made in Munich in 1938.
He was hailed as a hero, not only by his own party but even by opposition parties, when he returned with a deal that Chamberlain said meant "peace for our time."
But, just one year later, the biggest, bloodiest and most ghastly war in history began.

If deal-making is your standard,
didn't Barack Obama just make a deal with Iran --
one that may have bigger and worse consequences than Chamberlain's deal?

What kind of deals would Donald Trump make?
He has already praised the Supreme Court's decision in "Kelo v. City of New London" which said
that the government can seize private property to turn it over to another private party.

That kind of decision is good for an operator like Donald Trump.
Doubtless other decisions that he would make as president would also be good for Donald Trump,
even if for nobody else.

And what laborers is Trump's companies using?

Donald Trump tells immigrant advocates "You've convinced me"
...Trump told the trio "You've convinced me."
The meeting comes several weeks after Trump - one of the nation's most prominent conservative voices - delivered a key note address on immigration reform in Iowa
and warned that that the Senate's current immigration bill "could be a death wish" for Republicans, who "need to 'do the right thing' ."



Trump: U.S. should accept some Syrian refugees
Donald Trump thinks the United States should accept some refugees from Syria due to the "unbelievable humanitarian problem." ...
Trump ... said Tuesday evening that though the migrants could pose a security risk -- floating the idea that there may be individuals with ties to Islamic militants --
he supported allowing them into America. ...



Donald J. Trump - Verified account @realDonaldTrump
Congress must protect our borders first.
Amnesty should be done only if the border is secure and illegal immigration has stopped.
11:08 AM - 29 Aug 2013
1,055 RETWEETS 1,064 LIKES



Message to the GOP: Trump supports amnesty
... On the Kelly File Thursday, Trump’s son Eric expressed frustration that the media overlooks this:
The point isn't just deporting them, it's deporting them and letting them back in legally.
He's been so clear about that and I know the liberal media wants to misconstrue it,
but its deporting them and letting them back legally.
Eric Trump is right.
His father has been crystal clear that he wants all the illegals to return and live in America.
Listen closely to what Trump is actually proposing.
In an interview with CNN's Dana Bash earlier this year, Trump explained his plan this way:
I would get people out and then have an expedited way of getting them back into the country so they can be legal ...
A lot of these people are helping us ... and sometimes it's jobs a citizen of the United States doesn't want to do.
I want to move 'em out, and we’re going to move 'em back in and let them be legal.



Donald Trump's companies sought visas to import at least 1,100 workers
... Trump owns companies that have sought to import at least 1,100 foreign workers on temporary visas since 2000,
according to U.S. Department of Labor data reviewed by Reuters.
Most of the applications were approved, the data show.
Nine companies majority-owned by Trump have sought to bring in foreign waitresses, cooks, vineyard workers and other laborers on temporary work-visa programs administered by the Labor Department.
The candidate's foreign talent hunt included applications for an assistant golf-course superintendent, an assistant hotel manager and a banquet manager.
Two of his companies, Trump Model Management and Trump Management Group LLC, have sought visas for nearly 250 foreign fashion models, the records show.
Trump's presidential campaign and a lawyer for the businessman declined to comment.
The Mar-a-Lago Club could not be reached for comment.

That should help clarify the issue.

[SampleMan]

Having the team move 75 miles outside the city so it can find clear land, it not realistic.

Disney bought his land without eminent domain. You suggest a cozy fondness for state run economies.

The NFL has plenty of revenue, and its not my financial responsibility to ensure you are entertained on Sunday afternoons.

[DoughtyOne]

I agree with you. I don’t defend cities building stadium for owners. No way.

[vbmoneyspender]

GM got Michigan to go along with this, and took out Poletown. THAT was a big deal. Bigger than Kelo.

I remember a time when people on Free Republic were pretty much universally against such sorts of corporate cronyism. My how times have changed.

[unlearner]

The claim Cruz changed his position on this issue is a lie.

The video linked is just Ted Cruz quoting the Constitution.

That’s supposed to be some big revelation that incriminates him?

Where did all these hacks come from who seem to be on a conservative website for the sole purpose of attacking and undermining the most conservative candidate in the race?

I have to wonder if they are naive conservatives who have been duped or worse, friends of GOPe, abortionists, and hail-Satan left that hate Cruz so deeply.

[SampleMan]

Your latent tenancies are obviously bubbling to the surface.

[Cen-Tejas]

Exactly, “eminent domain” enabled the Interstate Hwy System that all complainers about ED in this election year use or have used. It enables the lights in your house and the water in your house and your gas and getting a cold one out of the refrigerator. You like getting a shower, ED enables it. Do you like flying on airliners, ED enables it. I could go on and on almost endlessly.

Notwithstanding any of the foregoing, ED is a powerful tool in the hands of politicians and their entrepreneur businessman allies that has been much abused and to the extreme, even criminal, detriment of “some”. Most likely, Trump, who I support right along side of Cruz, was abusing ED. I don’t know the facts of that case. If he did, shame on him but the country needs him in the Oval Office. That fact “Trumps” all others.

[DoughtyOne]

Beverage taxes
Real estate taxes
Sales taxes
Payroll Taxes
Income taxes
Federal Income taxes
Corporate taxation

[SampleMan]

BS. And if you think its fine either way, you don’t understand the issue and you don’t understand the Constitution.

Public use is a Constitutional requirement. Private use is just dirty politicians seizing property to reward crony donors.

[DoughtyOne]

You must be having a different conversation that the rest of us.

This was about eminent domain, not cities buying a stadium for an owner.

Since I’ve had thing conversation about 15 times over the last eight months, I’ll take a pass tonight.

Take care.

[JoSixChip]

How exactly Trump wins a general election with less a third of the GOP primary voters remains a total mystery to his sycophant supporters.

1/3 > 1/10 Pretty basic stuff really.

[Grams A]

Thank you for speaking up.

[2ndDivisionVet]

LOL

[TigerClaws]

Here are some photos of what happens without Eminent Domain:

http://www.oddee.com/item_99288.aspx

[JoSixChip]

Conservatives support eminent domain for public need.

Do you support the KeystoneXL pipeline?