🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <_9S7f.554$2y.7@newsread2.news.atl.earthlink.net>,
 "george conklin" <george@nxu.edu> wrote:

> "Robert Cote" <tsch@adlph.net> wrote
> > "Baxter" <lbax02.spamguard@baxcode.com> wrote:
> >> "george conklin" <george@nxu.edu> wrote
> >> > "Baxter" <lbax02.spamguard@baxcode.com> wrote 
> >> > > "Robert Cote" <tsch@adlph.net> wrote
> >> > >
> >> > >> the last batch, second the population is 
> >> > >> aging/educating/richer. For tiny evidence look to Portland 
> >> > >> where bad planning and high housing prices are killing the 
> >> > >> schools.
> >> > >
> >> > > The problems with Portland schools have nothing to do with zoning
> >> > > or housing prices - and everything to do with rural politicians
> >> > > trying to grab all of Portland's money.  They (rural Oregonians)
> >> > > are more than willing to cut off their own noses if they can hurt
> >> > > Portland in any way.
> >> >
> >> >   Baxter is paranoid too.
> >> >
> >> Nope.  The Urban-Rural "divide" in Oregon is well documented.
> >
> > Now gee, why is it, do you think, that the exurbanites of Orgeogon
> > distrust the urban centers?  High crime, deteriorating schools,
> > congestion, property rights, taxes?  Huh?
> 
>    Perfect answer.  No one wants to be incorporated into any city.  You end 
> up with new urbanist planners, high crime and vastly more expenses, plus 
> people like Baxter to deal with. 

I just love the weird anti-reality world Baxter inhabits where it is the 
exurbs trying to grab Portland's money.  In TRuth Portland does think it 
is their money.  Baxter and Parker are just unbelievable in their 
ability to ignore the world around them.  Exurbanites fight to prevent 
being acquired by cities.  Cities are constantly seeking new and higher 
funding.  Transit does not save energy.  Kyoto is socialism.  Global 
warming is small, inevitable and exogenous.  Their only recourse is the 
basest lowly insult.