My friends,
How far have even our local governments gotten from the Constitution and the ideals upon which this country was founded?
The city of SeaTac, Washington has started eminent domain proceedings against a parking lot near SeaTac airport. Is this land absolutely necessary for direly needed runway expansion? Is it adjacent to a planned new regional hospital? No. The city has decided they would get more tax revenue from a shopping center and a city owned parking lot on that land. And oh yeah, they expect the owner to accept $2 million less for it than he paid 2 years ago. So the government confiscates private land from a citizen for it's own revenue benefit. And this is not the first time this has been done. Believe it or not, our Supreme Court upheld the right of cities to do this in Kelo vs City of New London, Ct. a couple of years ago. WHAT COUNTRY DO WE LIVE IN?????
Now folks, you realize "the city" is run by elected officials. Mayor, commissioners, board, whatever particular setup they have in SeaTac. Or New London. These people voted to commit this abomination. Since we don't seem to teach American history in our schools any longer, perhaps the time has come we need to make a requirement for incoming elected officials to attend a six week course on American history and government.
Speaking of which, I wonder how many realize that our founding fathers envisioned a government run by men who had become successful enough in private business that they could take 4 or 8 years out of their lives to DONATE their services to their country, and then would go back to private life. I doubt they even considered such a thing as a career politician.
God Bless and keep up the good work,
Dumb Farmer
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Any government big enough to give you what you want-is bid enough to take away what you have!
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