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Big house a symbol of an American tragedy
The Boston Globe ^ | 1-28-07 | Beverly Beckham

Posted on 01/28/2007 11:48:56 AM PST by BronzePencil

It sits on top of a hill, overlooking a busy road -- a big, pink stucco house that dwarfs all the houses around it. It is conspicuous consumption at its worst, or at its best, depending on your point of view.

It's not the biggest house around. There are many bigger -- one just a few miles from where I live, not on top of a hill but practically on the offramp of a highway. So many smaller houses have been knocked down to make room for these Goliaths. This is called progress.

I don't understand who lives in these massive homes or who can afford them

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TOPICS: Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: classenvyhypocrites; classwarfare; edwards; johnedwards; mansion
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Typical liberal drivel. Everyone who lives in a big house should give away their money.
1 posted on 01/28/2007 11:49:00 AM PST by BronzePencil
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Class envy for political purposes!
2 posted on 01/28/2007 11:54:17 AM PST by HuntsvilleTxVeteran ("Remember the Alamo, Goliad and WACO, It is Time for a new San Jacinto")
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To: BronzePencil

So what are we supposed to do with this information?


3 posted on 01/28/2007 11:54:36 AM PST by san juan
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I wonder if this left-wing nut will complain about the Clintons mansion in Chappaqua, NY.

And what about Ho Chi Kerry's and the Kennedy's estates?

4 posted on 01/28/2007 11:54:59 AM PST by LdSentinal
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To: BronzePencil

Mail this to John Edwards, c/o Two Americas, Chapel Hill, NC.


5 posted on 01/28/2007 11:55:02 AM PST by Eric in the Ozarks (BTUs are my Beat.)
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To: BronzePencil

6 posted on 01/28/2007 11:56:03 AM PST by narses (St Thomas says "lex injusta non obligat.")
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To: BronzePencil

MILLIONS are living on the streets? The space aliens must have accidently dropped her in Mexico City when they were done probing.


7 posted on 01/28/2007 11:56:22 AM PST by Wage Slave (Good fences make good neighbors. -- Robert Frost)
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They never interview the people in the small houses that got torn down. Because they would have been happy (eager) to make the sale of their old crappy house, and are living in much nicer dis now.)

Nor do they interview all the guys who worked to build that big house, and the prosperity it provided for their families.
8 posted on 01/28/2007 11:56:40 AM PST by Atlas Sneezed (Your FRiendly FReeper Patent Attorney)
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"It's remarkable how little growth has trickled down to ordinary families," economist Paul Krugman wrote recently in The New York Times Magazine.
Drivel.
9 posted on 01/28/2007 11:57:28 AM PST by narses (St Thomas says "lex injusta non obligat.")
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To: BronzePencil

See http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1774278/posts


10 posted on 01/28/2007 11:58:03 AM PST by narses (St Thomas says "lex injusta non obligat.")
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My parents paid $10,000 for that house. It was 1954. The average cost of a home then was $10,250.

Welfare people would probably be insulted today if you expected them to live in that average 1954 house -- with one tiny bathroom, no color TV, a fridge that would fit inside today's fridges, a kitchen that would fit inside today's bathrooms.

There were always wealthy people who lived in pink houses on hilltops. Today there are lots more of them. And most everyone else is way better off -- economically -- then people were in 1954.

The real problem is moral decline -- among rich and poor.

11 posted on 01/28/2007 11:58:58 AM PST by AZLiberty (Tag to let -- 50 cents.)
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I won't even address the topic of this stupid article, but there is something in there that should be addressed:

live in a town that has million-dollar houses. And yet our schoolchildren have to pay to ride the school bus, to play school sports, to participate in school plays, to play in the school band, to take part in any extracurricular activities. Our library might be forced to cut back its hours. This isn't unique to my town. It's happening across the state.

Instead of worrying what people do with their own money...journalists should start investigating what the government is doing with your money.

12 posted on 01/28/2007 11:59:27 AM PST by Hildy (RUDY IN 2008)
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"I don't understand who lives in these massive homes or who can afford them"

Mostly the productive. But I'm guessing that still doesn't end your confusion.


13 posted on 01/28/2007 11:59:56 AM PST by I see my hands (_8(|)
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Is that your place? Looks new.


14 posted on 01/28/2007 12:00:05 PM PST by Lady Jag (A positive attitude will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.)
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To: Wage Slave

Nah, they took one look at her and passed on the "probing".


15 posted on 01/28/2007 12:00:05 PM PST by Emmett McCarthy
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The Globe should call up Edwards and get a quote from him. I have nothing against big houses or people building/buying what they can afford, Edwards, however is just a typical liberal hypocrite.


16 posted on 01/28/2007 12:00:20 PM PST by rabidralph (Hoo-ray, Beer!)
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It should be noted that that is John Edwards' house.


17 posted on 01/28/2007 12:00:54 PM PST by Atlas Sneezed (Your FRiendly FReeper Patent Attorney)
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To: BronzePencil

" My parents wouldn't make it today -- not without an education, not without family to help them. And that's the big difference between then and now. Then you could work hard and work your way up. Now, you can work hard your whole life and never get ahead."

I wonder if the author has thought about some other differences between her parent's and todays young couples trying to get ahead. I bet that her parents

a. Never bought anything on credit and if they did have an account with local merchants and the bill was paid weekly. And by local merchants I mean the grocer, butcher, hardware store and other necessary purchases not the big screen TV market.

b. Only went out to eat once every 6 months if that. If they did go it was to the local Italian or other mom and pop restaurant where a home style meal was enjoyed not a $50.00 a person nouvelle cusine travesty.

c. Went and bought new things without a second thought. They most likely darned socks, restiched hems, saved buttons, saved screws, nails, bolts, repaired, reused and refitted. Their favorite label for kid's clothing was
" HANDMEDOWN "

People can still work hard and get ahead, it happens every day in this Country. What is lacking is the self discipline that makes it possible. It is not the Government job to make sure you have the maturity and foresight to handle your finances. It sure as hell can not handle its own.


18 posted on 01/28/2007 12:01:47 PM PST by lastchance (Hug your babies.)
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To: BronzePencil

What nonsense. Then again, in highly taxed & regulated, liberal cities, I don't find a 'wealth gap' too surprising.


19 posted on 01/28/2007 12:02:39 PM PST by proud_yank (Socialism - An Answer In Search Of A Question For Over 100 Years)
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To: narses

Is that the Edwards place?


20 posted on 01/28/2007 12:03:04 PM PST by billhilly
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