Lew Rockwell the leader of the libertarian revolt against the state has some thoughts on what the Kelo decision really means for property rights and government.Rockwell says :
Government is a racket that rewards itself through plunder and always in the name of public purpose. The truth is that there is no coherent way to separate public and private purpose when it comes to government. Its roads benefit private contractors and serve private interests. It’s true they are "free," but so are the streets in shopping malls, which are private. As for public schools, the teachers unions and hordes of bureaucrats are private interests too. Indeed, there is no such thing as the "public," there are only individuals.
and when decision making is localized:
The truth of the old liberal proposition that people can manage their lives in absence of central control is never better illustrated than when central authority withdraws its control. After Clinton’s welfare reform made it more difficult to get on and stay on welfare, there was no calamity. Many people who were once living off the system decided to go to work. When the federal speed limit was repealed, states took over and imposed a huge variety of rules. And so on.
