Posted on 09/12/2007 1:31:43 PM PDT by WayneLusvardi
Bargaining With the Open Space Devil Makes Us All Greenies Now
http://www.CaliforniaRepublic.org by Wayne Lusvardi 9/12/07
American newspaper journalist H. L. Mencken once wrote:
"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary."
This is no more exemplified than with what is conventionally called "open space preservation" in California.
In a German legend, a character named Faust (German for "fist" or Latin for "lucky") traded his soul to the devil in exchange for knowledge or power. Most of California's urban residents have struck what is called a Faustian Bargain with the devil of Open Space.
California residents are continually trading their political souls to the false god of preservation in exchange for the bogus value of open space near their neighborhoods. In most cases, the threat of any real damage to residential property values by nearby pending development has been wildly exaggerated and public hysteria has been fomented by activists with political agendas.
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I’m more “green” than most of the stinky hippies I’ve seen.
For your information the “author” is a real estate appraiser who has written several articles in professional real estate journals on damage issues.
WL - the “author”
For your information the “author” is a real estate appraiser who has written several articles in professional real estate journals on damage issues.
WL - the “author”
For your information the “author” is a real estate appraiser who has written several articles in professional real estate journals on damage issues.
WL - the “author”
Other than that, I say shoot those stinky hippies on sight!
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