🚀 go-pugleaf

stvfrmco wrote:
> Tiny Human Ferret wrote:
> 
>> stvfrmco wrote:
>>
>>> 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
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>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> 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!
>>
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>> http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A47930-2004Aug7.html
>>
>> That's the URL for a truly excellent series on why Sprawl is a beast 
>> on a rampage, as it were, in the Washington DC region.
>>
>> Despite the left-leaning and pro-environmentalism plaints of the local 
>> governments, they consistently promote the building of far more office 
>> space than housing, leading to hours long commutes, occasionally from 
>> two states away. Yes, there are people who live in West Virginia and 
>> Pennsylvania, who regularly commute to, or quite near to, the District 
>> of Columbia.
>>
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> Thanks for the URL, Mr. Ferret.  Here in Colorado, people are commuting 
> from Laramie and Cheyenne, Wyoming to Denver.  They can buy houses in 
> Wyoming for a fraction of what they'd pay in the Denver metro area and 
> avoid the diversity that is being shoved down our throats in Colorado. 
> Wyoming looks like Colorado did 50 years ago both demographically and in 
> terms of environmental quality.  It has fewer than half a million people.

If it wasn't so darned cold and had more people in it, it might be more 
populated. As it is, it has only 2/3rds of the population of the 
District of Columbia.



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The incapacity of a weak and distracted government may
often assume the appearance, and produce the effects,
of a treasonable correspondence with the public enemy.
                   --Gibbon, "Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire"