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They Were Expendable.
You could be too
The City of Fort Worth sic-ed its power of eminent domain on a group of local citizens, took their homes and gave the property to a "sports authority" for the use of a private enterprise - Texas Motor Speedway.
The City of Arlington engineered a similar seizures, and the City of Hurst forced the sale of a whole neighborhood of its citizens, so a shopping mall could build a bigger parking lot.
Apparently the attitude is, "Those people don't count. They were expendable."
On July 16, The Fort Worth Star-Telegram had a front page story about the City Council outlawing new billboard construction. One of the councilmembers called billboards "pollution on a stick" and said it was a "quality of life issue."
You could be expendable too. The next time a big out-of-state corporation wants to expand in our area, the leaders of our ship of government may decree that you will "walk-the-plank" to improve everyone else's "quality of life."
I'm waiting for the time when some city council takes a tax-paying citizen's property and gives it to a billboard company. All that is lacking for this to happen is the economic incentive.
Cy is a Locomotive Engineer in Fort Worth.
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