Eminent Domain

This is just a fancy way of describing theft by government. I realize this is a long-established practice, but it is still wrong. If you or I desperately want a certain piece of property, we must come up with the owner's asking price or find another piece of land. Disappointment stinks, but that is reality. Government should not own land, much less steal it. There is no such thing as "the common good" so using that excuse for theft is empty.