Community Forum

My mother just held a community forum at her house where local environmental politicians met with her friends and neighbors for a meet-n-greet.
It was adorable and at times very extreme. Needless to say I did a fair bit of muffled chuckling.

These are a few of my favorite quotes:

"China has a sustainable housing complex where they force people to be vegetarians."
...freedom?

"...Well of course, suburbia is just not sustainable."
...Whats the alternative look like? and by the way nothing is sustainable: its written in the second law of thermodynamics.

"It's that whole development thing, we need to stop it. Its just grow grow grow."
...yea, but don't take away my job!

"We need to limit the amount of water we use."
...try letting the price represent the cost. just an idea.

"I personally stopped the hospital from becoming privately owned, they were planning on phasing out the offices that did not make any money."
...not even going to get started with the problems in this statement.

"Can you believe foreigners are growing our food. Its just irresponsible."
...Buy American! ;) (that smiley face is sarcastic; and it also comes with a sarcastic thumbs-up)

"We need subsidized community housing. Like we had under FDR."
...and socialism!

this was my favorite. (drum roll)

"We know about a minimum wage but what about a maximum wage?"
...The man made a coy face after he said this statement, oblivious to me cracking a small giggle. Yes, ladies and gentlemen thats the new dumbest thing I've ever heard. What a gem!

I sat in the corner as multiple friends and neighbors talked about raising crime rates then bringing in more affordable housing complexes, then stopping all growth that wasn't what they deemed to be "sustainable" but also complaining about fewer jobs at the same time. They talked about jsut needing more green collar jobs and water conservation by limiting the amount people can use.

Yep, that thump you just heard was Ludwig Von Mesis rolling in his grave.