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The Supreme Court has just issued a decision that local governments can use Eminent Domain to take away your land so that corporations can build businesses there.

Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, who has been a key swing vote on many cases before the court, issued a stinging dissent. She argued that cities should not have unlimited authority to uproot families, even if they are provided compensation, simply to accommodate wealthy developers.

“Any property may now be taken for the benefit of another private party, but the fallout from this decision will not be random,” O’Connor wrote. “The beneficiaries are likely to be those citizens with disproportionate influence and power in the political process, including large corporations and development firms.”

She was joined in her opinion by Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist, as well as Justices Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas.

CNN

Our government is now so deeply embedded in the pockets of big business that they are happily handing them our homes.

My entire retirement nest egg is my little house.
What’s one woman’s retirement worth, compared to some corporation’s lust for profit?

I guess I just have to hope that no rich, well-connected developer decides to build a mall on my property.
Small comfort, that.