Maine Land Use Summit (A few right words stun the envirocrats. You'll love it!)

Magic City Morning Star ^ | Aug 12, 2005 | Roger Ek

[Interesting Times]

"One man's insurgent is another man's freedom fighter."

Thanks very much. This is what it's going to take to defend freedom in America from the Planners.

[i_dont_chat]

Bravo!

[joesnuffy]

The problem is that THEIR vision requires bigger government, higher taxes and less freedom

It's time to get rid of all of THEM

Term Limits might help..certainly can't hurt

imo

[dts32041]

What were you doing there, I thought you were restricted to the house.

[Pearls Before Swine]

That did it for one UN observer who was taking it all in.

Great post. But one has to ask, why would a "UN observer" be at a planning conference in Maine? Its pretty far away from the UN homebase in NYC, and involves a fairly small population. Are UN observers everywhere? Was this picked for some reason--as it was a pilot, or there was a high land to people ratio?

[snowrip]

Just excellent... so what is the future of the MSPO? My personal opinion is that they be shipped to China to help with the sprawl problem over there. After all, they'll fit right in.

[Wuli]

Thanks for giving everyone some hope.

[caver]

Interesting. Thanks for the report. We do this same Delphi process here at work. It is excruciating to set through. Us peons usually don't have the opportunity to sway the decisions, so we have to go along.

[Condor51]

These "Planners" should stick to playing with Sim City.

[TChris]

SWEEEEEEET! Way to go!

If more citizens would awaken from their thoughtless stupor and quit being herded like sheep to the slaughter, then our government just might be forced to serve the people again.

[KarlInOhio]

Great story. One problem with fighting these people is that most people have jobs and don't have the time to fight these busibodies 24/7. The busibodies full time job is to meddle in this way.

Does anyone have a good "negative" word for the opposite of spawl? I want something that expresses the feeling of "too many rats in too small of cage" in one word.

[Antoninus]

Excellent example of the Delphi technique in action and how to defeat it.

Well done, friend.

[camle]

hey! I know that guy! We bought some land through him!

Hi Rog!

[Izzy Dunne]

I want something that expresses the feeling of "too many rats in too small of cage" in one word.

Anthill.

[Dems_R_Losers]

Fascinating. Just before this meeting I was in Maine with my husband attending his 30th Waterville High School reunion. His class of 1975 had 275 students. This year's WHS senior class was only 128. Sprawl is the least of the problems in Waterville. We stayed in Portland near the waterfront for another 4 days, and drove all around the area with no difficulty. If that is what Maine calls sprawl they need to come to some other cities. The worst problem we had is that some idiots in the transportation department thought it would be a good idea to resurface I-95 in the middle of high tourist season. Took us nearly three hours to drive to Waterville.

Maine is in dire need of economic development outside of Portland. It has many excellent colleges, but the graduates don't stay there because there are no jobs. The tourist industry could bring in a lot more dollars if there were more roads for people to get around. Central land-use planning isn't going to do anything to help these situations.

[poobear]

"We just need facts, straight talk, solid principles and the moral courage to speak the truth as we advocate for Maine."

BUMP!

The courage to speak the truth as we advocate for America Bump!

[Dems_R_Losers]

The opposite of sprawl is "nobody can afford to live here."

[highnoon]

First of all NEKAWA, great job.

To answer your question Karl, how about 'shrinkage'?

[snowrip]

How about "settle"?