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On May 6, 2:52 am, Iconoclast <goldst...@nym.hush.com> wrote:
> I have lived in Boulder, Colorado for decades and remember when
> Boulder was one of the first cities in the United States to have an
> electorate who voted for growth limitation and for a greenbelt and
> open space program to prevent urban sprawl and to preserve the
> farmland, ranchland, and undeveloped land around our city for future
> generations to enjoy.  Our city would pay ranchers and farmers the
> equivalent amount that a land developer would have paid them to buy
> their land for development to not sell the land and keep on farming or
> ranching and pass the land on to their children and grandchildren and
> so on.  Boulder wanted control over who could move here and prevent
> developers and realtors from treating the land as a commodity to be
> bought and sold solely for the benefit of those seeking to maximize
> profit off of the land.
>
> This week, our mayor and city council voted to ban travel to Arizona
> by city officials to protest Arizona's new law that, in effect, lets
> Arizona decide who can legally reside in Arizona.  Apparently Boulder
> officials believe in growth limitation and preserving the environment
> only as long as it doesn't keep foreigners from illegally entering the
> U.S. and adding to the population explosion, urban sprawl, and strain
> on limited water supplies in the arid Western United States.
>
> Boulder has long prided itself in being a "Green" city, and yet while
> I was mowing my lawn on Mapleton Hill in Boulder with an old fashioned
> push lawn mower, I noticed that my neighbors would have big gas or
> diesel pickup trucks with a crew of Mexicans pull up to their homes
> with big power lawn mowers to mow their relatively small lawns.  At
> one house there was a pickup truck, a large Dodge van, and 5 gasoline
> powered lawn mowers to attend to the yard, along with leaf blowers.  I
> wondered what the carbon footprint was, imagining that the crew that
> came to mow the lawns come from out of town.  Conservatively, 10
> gallons of fossil fuel went directly into mowing a lawn that might be
> an eighth of an acre in size.  The crew of Third World "immigrants"
> who did the lawn job added more people to Boulder County, a place that
> once prided itself in greenbelts, open space, and growth limitation.
>
> As an aside, the Mapleton Elementary school, which my mother and my
> kids attended, and which was built in the 1800s, was closed a couple
> of years ago in favor of busing local kids miles away to another,
> overcrowded school.  Now Jared Polis, our Congressman from our
> District, wants to bus in immigrant children from a city 15 miles away
> to this same building to provide early ESL education to those kids,
> bringing 80 additional cars a day to our neighborhood, also providing
> free dental care to the parents of those kids, who one might infer are
> illegal aliens from Central America and Mexico.  So much for growth
> limitation and going Green.  Boulder forgot it's past championing of
> preserving open space and limiting growth and now is the champion of
> massive Third World illegal immigration in some kind of perverse
> belief that growth and urban sprawl are good as long as the new
> arrivals come here illegallly.
>
> Iconoclast
> alt.politics.immigrationhttp://www.globalgulag.us

Pounding Pedro's pud. Or, local political hacks pandering to
invaders.

Brad