alt.politics.economics

Jeffrey Turner wrote in news:13qugmmj6q8p7e0
@corp.supernews.com:

> Mitchell Holman wrote:
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>> "Bill Bonde ( 'Hi ho' )" wrote in
>> news:47AE916F.3379F29E@yahoo.co.uk:
>>
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>>>
>>>Jeffrey Turner wrote:
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>>>>Bill Bonde ( 'Hi ho' ) wrote:
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>>>>>kim1 wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>On Sat, 09 Feb 2008 08:20:02 -0600, David Hartung
>>>>>>wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>Jeffrey Turner wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>Bill Bonde ( 'Hi ho' ) wrote:
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>>>>>>>>>Harry Hope wrote:
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>>>>>>>>>>Re: Republican-created recession to be longer than usual
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>And you wanna vote the Republicans back in? Shame on you.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>If they aren't "in", how did they create the recession?
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>They are in the White House. And their policies are the idiotic
>>>>>>>>supply-side nostrums that have lead to this recession.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>Please explain, in detail, just how the Bush administration is
>>>>>>>responsible for this imaginary recession.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>W claimed responsibility for economic prosperity for the most home
>>>>>>ownership in history during his administration.
>>>>>
>>>>>So you oppose private home ownership?
>>>>
>>>>That home ownership wasn't private, it was the bank's.
>>>>
>>>
>>>Then no one hardly owns a home.
>>
>> Not if a football team has a "better use" for it, anyway.
>>
>>
>> Arlington turning to eminent domain for (Dallas Cowboys) stadium
>> Dallas Morning News
>> 10/1/2005
>>
>>
>> While planning for a new Dallas Cowboys stadium, Mayor Robert
>> Cluck said the city would use eminent domain only as a last
>> resort to assemble the needed land. But condemnation has become
>> the rule rather than the exception.
>>
>> The City Council has condemned or sought to condemn more than
>> three-quarters of the properties it has acted on in the past
>> four months, an analysis has found.
>>
>> "We were hoping that this would be the last resort," Dr. Cluck
>> said last week. "We were hoping there would be more willing sellers."
>>
>> He said that before the land acquisition started, city officials
>> had no idea what percentage of property owners would sell willingly.
>>
>> Although the number of condemnations is much higher than he would
>> like, Dr. Cluck said, the city is making fair offers, and sometimes
>> eminent domain is the only option.
>>
>> http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1495170/posts
>
> Gosh, I'm surprised you didn't bring up the eminent domain takings for
> a certain Texas Rangers stadium some years back. Might have been even
> more appropriate.


I thought that was rehashed at length when Bush
first ran for office. As governor, then president.
The Cowboys bulldozing entire neighborhoods is more
recent.

More important is South Texas ranchers fighting
the feds who are building a fence between their land
and the Rio Grande water they depend on.

Another group of conservatives who won't be
supporting the GOP any more.............