“We want to be very clear on this point: Eminent domain is not a tool that any elected official wants to use. It is always used as a last resort,” said Carol Caruso, senior vice president of the Greater Cleveland Partnership. “Without it, older cites face a continuing spiral of economic downturn.” The Enquirer

 So let me understand this correctly. For a city not to fall apart economically they have to have the power to take a private persons property on the governments terms. Not that developers  have to pay to put a deal together, they are outsourcing to the  government.

One of the foundations of the United States of America is that a person has the right to private property and not have the government interfere with it.  Not that the government has the right to decide what they want to do with the property that suits the governments needs at that time.

If a big deal that will bring in lots of tax dollars can not be consummated because a businessman or homeowner does not want to sell their property, that is how it works. Of course a development official will not like it, their job is to put together these deals.

But the foundation of our country and economic system requires the sanctity of private property be upheld.

So government officials, hear us now. Our property is our property. Not yours.

And we will do everything within our power to maintain this right.

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