like leeches sucking the blood, life and fun out of everybody and everything around them???The rich by inheritance support the Dems because all of their measures prevent the great unwashed from becoming rich enough to join the country clubs and yacht clubs.
Once the have total control, then the poor will be jettisoned as well.
Currently, you see this in the DNC with private sector unions. Liberals despise private sector unions because they are in manufacturing that pollutes and looks ugly.
Private sector unions have become so small, that you are starting to see the DNC abandon them in favor of wealthy environmentalists. As gov’t grows, so do public sector unions that faithfully channel funds to the DNC.....more faithfully than those nasty private sector unions.
We will see the same with Hispanics in our lifetimes. Once the DNC has loyal support from Hispanics, expect blacks to be ignored. Their vote will no longer be crucial to holding power.
For liberals, it is all about who will keep them in power.
Sounds like a repeat/microcosm of the scenario in many California cities as described by Thomas Sowell.
Rich liberals’ other coup is convincing the poor that living in squalor and deliberately eschewing modern conveniences like the flush toilet is a sign of virtue.
Collectivism benefits only the poor and the rich in America with Dems and Pubbies more than happy to cater to those two groups.
All the conservatives can do is say,
“BOHICA!”
If there is so much preservation going on and Boulderites want to keep things as they are, is that not considered conservatism?
That said, I also recognize that suburban communities have also practiced restrictive zoning, in part (sometimes primarily) to keep lower income residents out. The suburban idea is that the city should be the dumping ground for all of the metro area's problem cases, and don't bother me in my cul-de-sac. I've railed about this for years. As a matter of sound welfare policy, we need to break up large concentrations of the underclass, so the burden needs to be spread. It also makes for more liveable cities if people can afford to live in reasonable proximity to their jobs. On the Hill, driving to work is the exception rather than the rule; a substantial majority take public transportation, walk, or bike. (And this is a very affluent area, so this includes six-figure folks on metro or in the bike lanes.)
I am aware of the tension between these two views. In my time, the mitigating factor has been that the Hill has been a transitional neighborhood, with plenty of poor folks, public housing, and social service institutions around. That is dwindling as gentrification continues, but to this point at least, I cannot be accused of living in a rarified elite oasis.
So: I am not unsympathetic to places like Boulder that want to prevent ticky-tacky sprawl and the invasion of the illegal aliens in low income districts. But at some point, the "pull up the drawbridge" syndrome becomes objectionable. These are tough questions, best settled by the communities themselves.
Except that federal and state authorities are involved with low income housing, and must set policy to site facilities.
And except that federal and state authorities do transportation planning, and must decide whether to subsidize the commuting lifestyle. (I'm generally opposed to degrading functioning neighborhoods to slice a few minutes off commutes, my neighborhood being the kind of place that would be destroyed if the automobile-uber-alles crowd had its way.)
These again are tough questions. To any here who want to dump on Boulder, I'll just say that I'll be more sympathetic to your argument if you are willing to let me put Section 8 housing next door to you.
Minnesota’s Governor Dayton is heir to the Dayton retail fortune that spawned Target. He has sold (we’re told) his Target interests and removed his money from off-shore banks (we’re told). He was married to a Rockefeller (who dumped his goofy butt) and was in the gaggle of radicalized scions from wealthy Minnesota families that all summer-camped together and went to the Ivy League schools.
The right communist professor in the right place can have enormous effect well beyond his/her studies of lesbian poetry or the Marxist analysis of popcorn economics.
Target???
Target is one of the most leftist establishments there is. I would not step foot in target.
Well, if they had cases of Busch Light beer buy-one-get-one-free, maybe. But otherwise Target is run by a bunch of moonbats.
like leeches sucking the blood, life and fun out of everybody and everything around them???When I got to 2/3s of the people of the people who work in Boulder, I had to think back to early 1968 in Dayton Ohio, the GEM City. We had 1.4M tax payers (NCR had round the clock shifts of 10-11K workers, GE, GM, Delco Marine, Kimberly Clarke and lots of cottage industry manufacturing. Then the Race Riots of 68-69, the Summers of Discontent and WHITE Flight. Today, Dayton is a city of 400K taxpayers and the slums of the West side have developed into the entire city.... Liberals at lower end of the food chain destroyed the Golden Goose, or rather the GEM City.
That’s only how they live in public. Behind the scenes it is infinitely worse.
When they return home they treat their family members, especially the children, like cattle. Love does not exist in their lives. Only a liberal can spend a million dollars on a homeless shelter for ex-felons and spend a thousand dollars to kill an infant or refuse to pay for a child dying from leukemia (that Obama’s job and not theirs!).
The left is evil incarnate and will pay their dues someday.
Unfortunately, their evil is spreading wildly everywhere. It is spreading so fast that even many conservatives are adopting their traits and attitudes.
Pretty soon, the entire world will burn.
This would be comical...
It is comical when you consider Boulder will be paying higher electric bills.
Yes, I understand that doesn't matter to a wealthy liberal/socialist/marxist/democRAT (sorry for being redundant). That's one of the reasons they call for higher taxes, so that the middle class cannot attain the same wealth they inherited.
5.56mm
As hypocrites!
Those who are wealthy due to inherited wealth are different from those who earned wealth. One major difference is that they have had time (often over generations) to become intimately connected with members of the political class and media. Their biggest asset is their set of connections. The regulations that burden you and me, they can get waivers for. The purpose of stifling regulation is to eliminate competition that might displace them from their positions.
Fighting over land and water is an old Western tradition. Read SHANE......look up the Johnson County Range Wars in Wyoming. Many of our ancestors were run out of Europe just ahead of starvation. The West provided land and opportunity to starving people who were ready to fight for it. Now, it’s not about starvation, it’s about somebody who thinks they are smarter than you and knows better what to do with your property. Marx felt that way, too.
***... the trailer owners appealed to the city leaders, who rezoned the property so that it could only be used as a trailer park. ****
I can understand this. The trailers are private owned and the lots are rented. Often the trailer owners will cut off the axles so the trailer will set lower to the ground.
If the owner sold the lot to a developer, the trailer owner would have to move the trailer which would cost a very high amount as the trailers now have no axles.
C'mon. That is the (upper middle class) American way. If these people voted for conservative Republicans tomorrow they'd still behave the same way.
Limousine liberals who live off daddy's trust fund absolutely hate and loathe anybody who has worked their way up from the lower classes. Yes, there are quite a few limousine liberals who went to a nice college and never really had to work a day in their lives. They will spend the rest of their lives lounging at Starbucks sipping a caramel macchiato in their stylish loafers while pecking around the internet on their MacBook Pros, with no particular place to go.
People in the lower classes who have failed to move up do indeed resent those who have escaped the life of housing projects and watching mindless sitcoms in darkened rooms with bowls of cheese doodles while waiting for their EBT cards to get refreshed.
We are doomed. But some of us are beautiful.
Here's video of this in action inside OWS at Zucotti Park. Scroll down a bit. Sorry, you'll have to see a few moments of Jon Stewart before the good stuff.