I'm not sure if this makes the story even worse or not.

Makes the story better. Karma rules

Except for the fact that this cost taxpayers a fortune. Who knows how much money developers actually lost on this one.

Kelo Home Taken, Development Project Fails

Kelo-- one of the worse decisions ever to come down from the Supreme Court and a case that will live in infamy as turning inside out the old saying: "A man's home is his castle."

$80 million in lost taxpayer money.
You can bet the developers had their financial butts covered beforehand with a no bid, cost plus contact and most likely will end up losing very little after write-offs. Only the taxpayers got royally screwed.

Are New London's Mayor and City Council members still in office? If so, why? As soon as the Kelo decision was rendered they should have been dragged out of their homes in the dead of night by torch-carrying citizens of New London and then tarred and feathered

HAHAHAHAHA.

Fucking justice.

sounds like a Sopranos story line.

Moral of the story: Privatizing Community Development Projects 1) Cost the taxpayer more and 2) The government loses control over the process and, therefore, 3) Things don't get built or go way over budget.

So, yet again, this proves that community development should be kept in the hands of the community-- not Wal-Mart and other for-profit developers. Duh.

its not justice if the taxpayers and original landowners were screwed out of their homes and hard earned cash (a given).

$80 million for a project that did nothing? I didn't know New London was in Iraq.
Friggin' Connecticut republicans. I expect they borrowed the money from China too.

Sure it's justice. This should teach the government to stay the hell out of private developers back pockets.

Sadly the lesson will be lost on the bunch of retards that inhabit all levels of government. As it will be lost on the morons who will re elect said morons back into power with promises of tax cuts and benefits.

"Friggin' Connecticut republicans."

It was the city of New London that was involved in the suit. Not sure if the town council members run as members of a particular party, but you can of course generalize whatever you want. If you look at the group involved, they could easily be a bunch of Obama supporters. Link:

HA~! HA~!

--Nelson Muntz

The developer should be forced to give the land back to the original owner and then the libs on the Supreme Court who came up with the stupid decision should be impeached.

Oh the delicious irony of it all.

"libs on the Supreme Court who came up with the stupid decision should be impeached."

It was more rightly a conservative decision, following a states rights approach.

It was Souter the sweetie and his gang of left wing fags.

FWTHOM-
Bin Laden hates "fags" too. He also hates liberals, as you do. What are your views on feminism? I'm sure you agree there too.

Developers NEVER lose money. They get theirs before anyone else. The architect, the contractors, and the future owners are the ones who have their nuts on the block. Of course the "future owners" will be the local taxpayers, who will be buying this steaming turd in lieu of schools, police, firefighters, and roads.

Stevens, Kennedy, Souter, Ginsberg and Breyer were the majority. Stevens wrote the majority opinion with an additional opinion by Kennedy.

O'Connor wrote the principal dissent, joined by Rehnquist, Scalia, and Thomas.

Seems sorta mixed to me.
In any case, this is the same SCOTUS that should have been impeached for getting itself involved in the Florida Election.

So the lady was evicted from her home by the local government and the supremes give the OK and now the area is blighted, the government is getting no tax dollars all made legal by the SCOTUS.

Sound on par with this republican administration, but yet we still get people here defending the turds.

Wonder how rome fell?

Worse yet, they evict the people from their homes to now try and put up condos.

The shape of our future generation is in real trouble.

The good of it was that 43 states passed amendments to their constitutions to prevent this from happening in their states, and of course the failure to develop the property only reinforces the folly.

The developer should be forced to give the land back to the original owner and then the libs on the Supreme Court who came up with the stupid decision should be impeached.

Posted by fwthom

You got that right.

The stupid judges should be hung by the neck until dead.

"Stevens, Kennedy, Souter, Ginsberg and Breyer were the majority. Stevens wrote the majority opinion with an additional opinion by Kennedy.

O'Connor wrote the principal dissent, joined by Rehnquist, Scalia, and Thomas.

Seems sorta mixed to me."

How is that "mixed?" Do you pay attention to anything?