November 2, 2025
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Ownership Society for Corporations

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 A divided Supreme Court ruled Thursday that local governments may seize people’s homes and businesses against their will for private development in a decision anxiously awaited in communities where economic growth often is at war with individual property rights…"

Just another fine example of the new ownership society that President Bush’s led America is all about. Corporate ownership I mean. Hell.. they need your house for that new parking lot. You’re hurting America if you don’t want to give it up. Traitors!

That reminds me of the story when Bush screwed a lot of people so he could build his stadium for the Texas Rangers.  In 1993, while walking through the stadium, Bush told the Houston Chronicle, "When all those people in Austin say, ‘He ain’t never done anything,’ well, this is it." But Bush would have never gotten the stadium deal off the ground if the city of Arlington had not agreed to use its power of eminent domain to seize the property that belonged to the Mathes family…read on

B. John

B. John Masters writes about democracy, moral responsibility, and everyday Stoicism at deep.mastersfamily.org. A lifelong United Methodist committed to social justice, he explores how faith, ethics, and civic life intersect—and how ordinary people can live out justice, mercy, and truth in public life. A records and information management expert, Masters has lived in the Piedmont,NC, Dayton, OH, Greensboro, NC and Tampa, FL, and is a proud Appalachian State Alum.