Posted on 01/06/2011 6:55:53 AM PST by La Lydia
I read the original article the other day, and it TOTALLY changed my way of thinking.
Now, more than EVER, I am willing to share my spacious home with Orlando Bloom and/or Antonio Banderas. :)
My 1000 square feet is all I need or desire. That said I have no problem with my neighbor’s large homes or with the fact that they all own more than one.
Comrade Kaprugina: “There was living space for 13 families in this one house.”
Zhivago: “Yes. This is a better arrangement, Comrades. More just.”
You should have told him no, you were going to house your extended family in the basement, rent the upstairs rooms to shift workers by the hour, and raise chickens in the backyard
Then he would have been assured you were a compadre
Just my opinion of course.
These people make me furious! If you think small homes are great, live in a small house. However, if you think small home are great and believe we should all be forced to live in one, that is tyranny.
Exactly.
Frank Lloyd Wright agreed with him. He built a string of tiny houses with no closet space all across Wisconsin, believing that future generations of Americans would become minimalists in terms of their material possessions.
Were they not now considered landmarks you probably would not be able to give one away.
Ivy Starnes lives. The real tragedy is not that a Monbiot exists, but that his ideas seem plausible enough to a large enough segment of the population to earn publication. That’s an education problem, which can’t be fixed until government’s near-monopoly on education is broken.
Yet another “problem” screaming for a government solution.
Nice analysis. I noticed his footprint formula contains the usual sloppy thinking common to global warming zealots. The footprint should have something to do with carbon if that is what they actually cared about. But two things go against that, they are almost illiterate when it comes to understanding things like housing’s relationship to carbon, and more importantly, they just want world socialism so the details don’t really matter to them.
My house needs to be big enough to have space for those Second Amendment items that allow me to say “I’ll have a home the size I want whether the government likes it or not.”
LOL! Well, I confess that I prefer a smaller house because I don’t love cleaning enough to want the extra rooms. And I doubt your new roomies would want to take up the slack! ;)
Fifty years ago a nut like Monbiot i.e. Moonbat would not have been given space in any respectable newsrag, liberal or not. Today, of course, there are many Monbiots in all forms of media writing or spewing equal amounts of leftist twaddle. These people used to be laughed at or dismissed as kooks. They’re still kooks, but they wield destructive power. I wonder what kind of pad Monbiot lives in? I’ll bet the living spaces of Moonbat and his leftist pals is not too small.
correction: living spaces ARE not small.
I have chosen a Cuban to share our spacious home with. His name is Mario Cimarro. Although I might have negotiate this with the other occupant.....
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_2drAPMNsJuI/TAwOuJ6Uc7I/AAAAAAAAAV0/u7WzxxJvetQ/s1600/Mario%2BCimarro.jpg
Sorry george. I need a room to freep in.
OMG! How’d I miss HIM? LOL! He’s welcome, too. :)
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