[SierraWasp]

"I'm wonder what economic growth they're whining about...."

Well you should see it, maaaaan!!! CA has been entirely paved over with freeways and urban sprawl along with every year-round stream being dammed and ugly strip malls ruining the environment along with poor people being priced out of homes creating rampant homelessness while the rich get richer through car-tax breaks brought on by those rascally Republicans that further encourages SUV's choking the freeways which means WE HAVE TO STOP ALL THIS PROGRESS!!! (/dripping sarcasm)

[Darksheare]

You mean something like the 'housing boom' here in New York where they're building insanely over priced outhouses that sit empty for years before anyone buys them?
(Three bedroom, one bath house with 1/4 acre or less going for 190,000. This in an area where the typical income is 32,000 or less. and near 55% or more of your income leaves by way of taxes before you can even pay bills.)

Yeah, there's a supposed housing booom out this way. The Banks and contruction business doesn't seem to understand that people just don't have it. But they'll try to create the market themselves. Can't wait for the bottom to drop out on them. I know of at least three banks that will end of owning several thousand acres and yet go bankrupt.
Once again, a State Enron in progress.

"Without oil man can never hope to Pave the Earth."
(I just love yanking the enviro-nuts chains...)