Re: [at-l] More Saddleback

["Bucky" <mfuller@somtel.com>]

OidMaster wrote:

<< This isn't an issue of sympathy, but of ethics and justice. >>

> Ethics, yes.

> The owner couldn't sell at his price over a long period. Perhaps
> his asking price was too high.

> Once he saw the Government as a potential buyer he jacked his price
> 3 fold. Now he's attempting ( quite successfully) to paint the issue
> into a "poor little guy v. the mean ol' Government so I need your
> sympathy" thing.

> Justice? Justice would be the seller getting about 80% of his
> original asking price. ( That's the rule of thumb in real estate )

> Justice is not the seller getting 300% of his original asking
> price because the buyer is the Government. It's NOT about emminent
> domain, it's about an individual's greed.

So justice in your mind is for the government to take the land
against the owner's will and pay whatever amount it declares is
fair.

Got it. :)

I hope you people don't exercise this kind of "justice" during
the course of your everyday lives. Fortunately, town meetings
and general elections don't occur very often.

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mfuller@somtel.com; Northern Franklin County, Maine         $
The Constitution is the white man's ghost shirt.  }>:-/> --->


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