A keystone has fallen..actually ripped from its placement by SCOTUS

In one of the most deplorable of acts by the Supreme Court. In one decision they ripped one of the keystones in the foundation of this once great country right out.
from the 5th amendment
"nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation."

granted it was a tight 5-4 vote. But even that scares me. Why would 5 of them have no clue as to what the Constitution says. These are Supreme Court judges for blank sake.
Where in that simple line, that even a 3rd grader could understand, does it say for public benefit?
We have talked for sometime about going down a slippery slope. Well my fellow Americans. We are in the mud.
You realize this opens the doors to all kinds of government thievery. If the government can now take your home or business or any form of private property simply because they feel they can generate more tax revenue with a mall or an office complex.
Then how long will it be till tax exempt churches and private schools are bulldozed in favor of a tax revenue generating facility. Oh yeah its already begun...
Franklin Township
The Kelo case is just the tip of the iceberg. Soon we will see government flexing its muscles in every nook and cranny saying one piece or another of property/land is more beneficial to the public if it were say, a casino. Since that would provide two angles of revenue. And let us not forget that this is not about taking the land for the government to manage. They are stealing it from you to give to a developer, another private entity.
And this is not the only form of theft under the guise of public interest going on.

In Fairbanks, AK the tribal natives formed a corporation and are working on taking land from private citizens there under the shady promise of building a "cultural center" Never mind that Fairbanks was founded by whitemen during the gold rush and it never was a native settlement.
They even secured federal funds for the project, but will be tax exempt seeing as they are natives and all. They noticed one cabin in the location qualifies for historical preservation. Just who's history are they attempting to preserve?
Of course we all know how well government is at managing "investment property"
KC has the notorious Union Station. A failed business venture on the part of the local government that as it nears bankruptcy they want to acquire and allocate more tax payer funds to "fix" it. Uh HELLO McFLy you ran it in the ground in the first place.. how will dumping hundreds of thousands more in tax payer funds fix it??

Just name your city... I'm sure there is an investment disaster story there.
I suppose now the motivation for this ruling is that since local governments are never any good at managing "income generating" property that it would only seem natural to use eminent domain to secure property and then hand it off to a private developer. Who would of course be able to do it right.

And Sebilius thinks state run casinos is the best way to fund the education corruption.. er I mean system, here in KS (being native born to KS I still speak as if I live there.. even though I'm a few miles to the east now)
When are we going to learn?

I have for along time felt property taxes were just the start. I think it can now be stated that they were the inevitable creation of even more insidious state theft.

God help us all.