Taking property and the dream
Center For Individual Freedom
by staff
08/09/05
"It was only a month ago that Republicans couldn't raise their hands fast enough in defense of property rights and home ownership. The Supreme Court had decided that the government could take people's homes for private development, and Republicans were outraged. In fact, they were in disbelief. Only a week later, all but 10 of the 230 Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives took to the floor and cast votes expressing their "grave disapproval" of the Supreme Court's bare majority decision. Their colleagues in the Senate were equally aghast and, led by Senator John Cornyn, sponsored a bill that would prohibit federal funding of any project that involves taking private property for economic development. But that was a month ago...
http://tinyurl.com/cbbnp
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
by staff
08/09/05
"It was only a month ago that Republicans couldn't raise their hands fast enough in defense of property rights and home ownership. The Supreme Court had decided that the government could take people's homes for private development, and Republicans were outraged. In fact, they were in disbelief. Only a week later, all but 10 of the 230 Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives took to the floor and cast votes expressing their "grave disapproval" of the Supreme Court's bare majority decision. Their colleagues in the Senate were equally aghast and, led by Senator John Cornyn, sponsored a bill that would prohibit federal funding of any project that involves taking private property for economic development. But that was a month ago...
http://tinyurl.com/cbbnp
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
Starmail - 11. Aug, 14:18
