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To: Tom Clarke who wrote (122681)	6/30/2005 9:52:58 AM
From: DMaA	Respond to of 793892

This article mentions the movie "Wild River". Pretty good little movie, usually forgotten. Some Things Are Worth More Than Money By FROMA HARROP & THE PROVIDENCE JOURNAL Published on 6/30/2005 In the movie “Wild River,” an 80-year-old farmwoman tries to teach a government official the meaning of property rights. It is the 1930s, and the Tennessee Valley Authority wants to build dams that would put the woman's farm underwater. The government needs to buy her out and makes what seems a generous officer, but she won't sell. Putting on a show for the official, the woman orders a poor black farmhand to sell her his beloved hound. She says: “I'll give you 15 dollars for him. What's the matter? He ain't worth more than that, is he?” Growing agitated, the farmhand replies: “No, ma'am. He ain't worth nothing, but I ain't gonna sell him. ... You ain't got no right to make me.” And she responds: “You know that's true, Sam. Come to think about it, I don't have the right.” Some things don't come with price tags. That's why the Constitution's Fifth Amendment makes good people nervous. It gives government the power of eminent domain — the right to take private property for public use, provided the owners are given “just compensation.” What is “just compensation” to someone who doesn't want to sell?. . . . theday.com