All I can say is wow!
So far, you got off easy...
If I want to build a house in the Matanuska Susitna Borough, where I live, I just hire a contractor and tell him what I want built. The Borough requires no building permit at all. I like that attitude better.
The author went to Colorado Theological Seminary; that probably explains the lack of screaming obscenities in the article.
If the homeowner builds it himself, it's not the government's business.
Now that the author has publicly shamed the local functionaries, he will find out just how much worse it can be - reinspections that uncover previously unnoticed errors, mandated reconstruction or demolition, reassessment of the value of his house, and if he continues to be a “problem,” contact with his local employer, a little extra highway enforcement, etc.
I have a brand new car sitting in my garage and I can not drive it because the FL DMV claims that it is NOT insured.
Of course it is insured who would be stupid enough to own a new car and not insure it? To make matters worse because there is “NO” insurance on my car they have also suspended my driver’s license.
I have been to the DMV 4 times with proof of my insurance and the title of the car. DMV person types in all of my information and bingo my license is reinstated. Car is insured for at least until the next letter from the DVM informing me that I have NO insurance on my vehicle and my license is suspended which occurs every few weeks.
This has been going on since last May when the car was purchased. I can not get through to these people and neither can my insurance company. How free am I?
How free are any of us when we need a license just to exist?
This could be my town! I have a very similar story.
“People of earth... the plans for development of the outlying regions of the Galaxy require the building of a hyperspatial express route through your star system, and regrettably, your planet is one of those scheduled for demolition...
“There’s no point in acting surprised about it. All the planning charts and demolition orders have been on display at your local planning department in Alpha Centauri for fifty of your Earth years, so you’ve had plenty of time to lodge any formal complaint.”
— Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy
If CWII ever happens, local petty bureaucrats may find that life is suddenly very exciting.
For all those that work for GubMint-
“YOU ARE THE PROBLEM!”
Don’t try and justify your existence leeching off of tax dollars. Quit and get a productive real job. Vote with your neighbors to REDUCE GubMint sepnding, staffing, intrsion and meddling.
Look in the mirror.
IT IS YOU that are the problem.
If you work hard at it, you may be able to repent long enough to not be hated for eternity.
Bookmarked.
Real estate agents are probably happy when people don’t ask related questions before buying a house.
Caveat emptor.
Unbelievable.
(well, not really)
Don’t confuse local governance with the federal government. A world of difference. The people of the locality have direct power to change its government. The national government is too vast to change very easily at all.
second american revolution coming, and it aint the ones the commies think
Another sterling example of why conservatives need to get off their fat butts and take over local government, including the city council, the county board and the schoolboard. Oh yeh, elect yourselves a pro-2nd amendment, Constitutional sheriff. That gives you the legal and armed muscle to turn back any and all attacks by the federal fascist pigs.
(Let’s wait and see if some weenie, Mammon-worshiping, fake “conservative” shows up and complains that they’re too damn busy working to secure their family and community from leftist attacks.)
The writer must live in my county!