re: #30 garhighway

Morning all.

Gus, I am sorry that you are frustrated, but if you thought BHO was going to stop gentrificiation (in Denver or anywhere), you were doomed to be disappointed. So long as property values can rise or fall (as they must in a free market economy) you will have the effects of those changes translate into land use outcomes. I’m sure it is no fun to be in the middle of all that, but the alternative would be even less pretty.

As for Afghanistan, I’m frustrated about it, too, but I don’t have any better answers for what to do there. I don’t think we can walk away from that place. We know what would happen if we did, and none of it would be good. I agree that this was an avoidable mess, in that the diversion of resources away from Afghanistan to Iraq was a mistake that was obvious at the time, but it is what it is. There’s a job there we have to finish.

You are correct that rising and falling property values will result in changes of land use outcomes.

But Gus is absolutely spot on about the pseudo-liberal yuppie bullshit - those who talk the talk about helping those in need, but when it suits their own purpose and contributes to their own wealth, doing things that create a situation where those in need are hurt, not helped. But some folks see a problem with it when the person doing it is known to be a conservative, but no problem if the person is a liberal.