Editing Eminent Domain (section)

==Speech Relevance ==
From '[[A Time For Choosing]]':
<BLOCKQUOTE>''Meanwhile, back in the city, under urban renewal the assault on freedom carries on. Private property rights are so diluted that public interest is almost anything that a few government planners decide it should be. In a program that takes for the needy and gives to the greedy, we see such spectacles as in Cleveland, Ohio, a million-and-a-half-dollar building completed only three years ago must be destroyed to make way for what government officials call a "more compatible use of the land."''</BLOCKQUOTE>
I believe Reagan's point regards Eminent Domain, which has be stretched to the point where taking property from one private entity to give to another private entity capable of paying greater taxes to the government is a "public use".