Bizarro Ratner

posted by The Vidiot @ 11:16 AM Permalink

Where Ratner takes from the underprivileged and underrepresented and gives to the rich and over-represented, Chavez is taking from the rich and over-represented and giving to the poor and underrepresented. What a novel concept:

Excerpt: Caracas Mayor Juan Barreto announced late Tuesday that the municipal government planned to seize two elite country clubs, Valle Arriba and the Caracas Country Club, and redevelop them as low-income housing projects.

From the article, Chavez' definition of eminant domain:

In Caracas, Barreto's officials say the takeover is prompted by a housing shortage and is permitted under the Chavez land law, which gave the government sweeping new powers to seize property that it deemed idle, misused, illegally acquired or not contributing to "social goals."

That's a far cry from our Kelo decision now isn't it?

The case arose from the condemnation by New London, Connecticut of privately owned real property so that it could be used as part of a comprehensive redevelopment plan. The Court held in a 5-4 decision that the general benefits a community enjoyed from economic growth qualified such redevelopment plans as a permissible "public use" under the Takings Clause of the Fifth Amendment.