🚀 go-pugleaf

MrPepper11 wrote:
> "Neither Bush nor Kerry has a word to say on the matter..."
> 
> August 11, 2004
> 
> Froma Harrop / Syndicated columnist
> Too many people crammed in fast-dwindling spaces 
> 
> RIVERSIDE, Calif. � Richard Nixon was born 22 miles from this
> historic, graceful city. As president and a Southern Californian,
> Nixon saw the threat posed by a rapidly growing population. He warned
> Congress in 1969 that if America continued to expand at current rates,
> the nation's "social supplies � the capacity to educate youth, to
> provide privacy and living space, to maintain the processes of open,
> democratic government � may be grievously strained."
> 
> It's probably just as well that Nixon isn't around to see what has
> happened since. The population of California has grown 70 percent.
> Here in Riverside County, it has tripled. And the Riverside-San
> Bernardino area ranks No. 1 in Smart Growth America's sprawl index.
> The Southern California Association of Governments expects the region
> to add 1.56 million people between 2000 and 2020

I'd imagine they added that many people between 2000 and 2004.  I'll 
assume this is a typo and they meant 15.6 million.

> � rivaling the growth
> expected for all of Georgia or Washington state.
> 
<snip>
> 
> Whether they call themselves conservative, liberal or other, Southern
> Californians generally subscribe to a strong environmental ethic. 

ROFLMAO!  Who writes this stuff?  Southern California is a monument to 
the "growth is good" corrupt government and a sort of Peter Principal of 
urban "planning" that has held that urban sprawl and bigger, wider 
freeways are the solution to an ever-growing population.  Saying 
Southern Californians subscribe to a strong environmental ethic is like 
saying that the Pope supports birth control and family planning.  Thanks 
for the laugh!