06/30/05

Last week's Supreme Court ruling in Kelo v. New London should indeed be alarming to all homeowners and business owners, who have now learned that they'll own their property only as long as their local government thinks they should. But it should also serve to further demonstrate that the economic agenda of Big Business is the same as the agenda of the American Left: bigger government and central management of the economy. The media like to portray big business as lobbying to be free of government intrusion, with regulators and lawmakers acting to curb these free-market cowboys. In truth, Big Business wants the government to be bigger. Much of big business's work on K Street is to give the government more control over the economy. This ruling on eminent domain is just another win for the unholy alliance of Big Business and Big Government...

http://www.spectator.org/dsp_article.asp?art_id=8366

from The American Spectator, by Timothy P. Carney


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp