Posted on 02/24/2019 10:06:41 AM PST by grundle
Yes, to some degree, I'm sure they are. It is an irresolvable mess.
They ooze into every pore of modern life. I just got another doze of that a couple days ago. Our gas fireplace is worn out and we need a replacement. All the new ones have screens on them. Recall you used a screen on a wood-burning fireplace to keep sparks and embers from landing on your carpet; but there’s no need for that with a gas fireplace.
The government busybodies found that some kids got burned by touching the hot glass of a gas fireplace. Instead of just accepting that kids will learn a lesson (fire is hot - do not touch), they MANDATED every gas fireplace now have screens.
I don’t want a screen. I don’t need a screen. But the damnable government busybodies decided EVERYBODY gets a screen.
Those shacks haven't been retrofitted yet to make them "safe, affordable and adequate." :-)
The town I grew up in, across the river from St. Louis, saw its population grow from 800 in 1950 to 10,000 on 1960. That was because of the massive building of subdivisions in the mid-fifties. The houses were modest but comfortable with three bedrooms and a quarter acre of land. Some had attached garages or carports. Some had basement, which was not always the greatest idea in the American Bottoms. The intended buyers were blue-collar workers, but professionals also lived there. My parents paid $12,000 for our house in 1957. People raised large families there. Kids had a place to play. We had one of the better schlol districts in Illinois. It was a great place to grow up. It was all private development.
A return to the housing projects of the seventies. Didn’t work in Detroit.
Hey azzhole A-OC, push to make the Navy Yard housing into PUBLIC HOUSING and slash YOUR salary to $15.
I don't know, one of the redeeming qualities of the show was that they were still a nuclear family, with a father who at least worked and tried to provide for his family.
Paid for by those fools who continue to go out every day to work, because their pride won’t let them become welfare-dependent bums.
Yeah, I’m sure the Mexican goberment will have them up to code real soon now!
Sounds like a return to the Cabrini Green projects, years ago in Chicago.
A house, but with no walls. Walls are immoral.
And you can bet they would use it as a vehicle for confiscating 2nd Amendment implements....
Lived a few blocks from Cabrini Green (What a name?!) While attending Moody Bible Institute in the early 70’s. Back then we were warned not to walk in certain directions from the school, which was built like a fortress with armed guards. Anyway, walking towards Cabrini Green meant automatic mugging, or worse. I wonder if the neighborhood has improved any.
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