Reason Not The Need!

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…..that’s what king Lear says when one of his termagant daughters breaks it to him that she wants him to give up his retinue of knights ‘n’ squires and jolly good fellows in whose company he’s used to cavorting around. The daughters have to feed and house this crowd every time dad visits, and even though they owe their power to him, they are sick of that. You do not need them, my servants can attend you, says one. And Lear is saying : it’s not that I NEEd them, it’s that I WANT Them!

I’m gestating an article about Biden’s plan to eliminate single family housing in America. (It’s an apt analogy and I hope I’ll go into labor with it soon.). So I’ve been collecting sources, reading around the issue. And I thought of the last time I visited Bucharest.
Two things: the city, which I first saw in 1984, and which was then truly “the Paris of the East”, had been made hideous with gigantic concrete high rises. And,the streets were full of starving, feral dogs.

the relationship between these two conditions was that Ceaucescu had decided that rural villages were “inefficient “. I think what he meant by this was, why should all these individuals get to provide for their needs by continuing the peasant lifestyles that have existed for centuries? Romania is communist and everything must be collective! So he forced, deported , the rural villagers into the cities and stacked ‘em in hideous soviet-lookin’ concrete towers. Naturally, they had to abandon their animals. Maybe cows and goats and chickens are gonna scratch out subsistence for a while, but dogs? We have a covenant with them, an ancient one. Where people go, they will follow, even when their former companions stop providing food and begin throwing stones. Truly awful. Oh and then he bulldozed the villages and turned all the land into nationalized agriculture. No going back.

“inefficient.” Those country dwellers didn’t need the land, the cottages: the state could provide them with dwellings, they could buy their food after it had been packaged and processed. Really, their lifestyle was just…silly. And anti-egalitarian. Why should they have space, air, trees and grass, fresh milk and eggs?

The first thing the Soviets did after 1917 was abolish private land ownership. And for a long time, Russians lived essentially in dorms. They had small private quarters but no one had a kitchen or bathroom to herself (except of course, famously, Party members.

Lemme tell ya (cuz I know I won’t be able to include this in my article) what’s gonna happen when single-family home ownership, which has already been criticized here as resource-inefficient and “exclusionary” (Biden’s exact word) is eliminated in America.

There will not be economically integrated districts: single family homes next to high rises and small businesses. Not for long. The wealthier people will move out. Maybe, in fact I’d lay odds, they’ll move back to luxurious, expensive apartments in the cities. And the cities will be progressively “greenfield” . We’ll have densely populated and intensively commercial-industrials ringing the quiet, pleasant inner cities. The world turned upside down.

After the October Revolution, ownership of land was outlawed and most people in USSR a lived in dormitories, essentially. They had a small private living space but no one had her own kitchen or bathroom. This lifestyle s certainly “efficient”. When my daughter started college at Penn, I was struck by the fact that we were paying — a lot —to have her living in an accommodation which, if I were shown it in a Hotel, I would not stay in for even one night. Oh of course it wasn’t awful; there was heat, running water, electricity. We’ve all lived in dorms. They just aren’t very nice. True, you don’t need anything more than they provide, but: reason not the need.

well, so when the Dems realize the new “gray belt”around the luxurious inner cities isn’t exactly what they envisioned as far as”equity”, state ownership of the wealthy’s big highrises will be the next step. Naturally each apartment will be made smaller, and really, people do not need their own kitchens and baths, much more efficient to share those facilities.

You cannot just re-order by fiat the way the people of a nation have chosen to and become accustomed to live. Not without engendering tremendous suffering.

And if OBiden-Harridan force this through, I hope they’ll atone for the misery they will cause by meeting Mr. and Mrs Ceaucescu’s ignominious demise.

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  1. “After the October Revolution, ownership of land was outlawed and most people in USSR a lived in dormitories, essentially. They had a small private living space but no one had her own kitchen or bathroom. This lifestyle s certainly “efficient”.”

    Efficient? How about dreadfully claustrophobic?

    Over my dead body. I worked hard for 4 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, and an 1,800 sq ft lanai/pool on 4 acres of privately owned wilderness.

    Apts are symbols of poverty and youth in my country. I’m grown up now and as Communists could never understand, priorities and taste levels change as you age.

    I’m quite glad you brought this topic up but I would like to know what the Marxist-in-Chief thinks about owning a 7,000 sq ft. mansion in Georgetown?

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    1. I don’t think we can put too much faith in blatant hypocrisy . CTFO, everybody knew Party members were living in luxury in USSR while the people’s lives were endless lines to buy meat and everything else, while they lived in dorms…the Russians accepted it as their lot. Will we? I hope not. Hope.

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      1. “I don’t think we can put too much faith in blatant hypocrisy.”

        Yes, I agree. That ship has sailed but it makes me feel better to say it!

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  2. Exactly Liz, I thought of you. Home ownership, on a nice piece of Land: that WAS the American Dream! In 2003 a statute by that name, which was supposed to help 40,000 families with the down payment and closing costs, became law. Silently discontinued in ‘08, of course.
    Why did the suburbs vote for Biden? Supposedly they elected him! Why, cuz he said he’d eliminate them? He did. He was quite candid about it.
    Après nous le déluge….we’ve had the best of America, let’s just hope we can coast out on the tide, enjoying the last ebb of the incredible freedoms and benefits we’ve enjoyed .

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    1. Most of those in the suburbs who voted for Biden are so low information they don’t even know about this. Heck, I didn’t even know about it until you told me! I should have known. He said he would eliminate the suburbs, but I don’t remember him saying that, and I think I pay more attention than most people do.

      So, they voted for him because they are ignorant. Do you really believe that, once they figure out what is going on, Americans will just roll over and let it happen? Granted, it takes a while for many of us to get a clue, but parents fighting back against critical race theory gives me hope. Most middle class Americans are oblivious right now, or have been until recently. I really cannot picture Americans going along with what you describe.

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      1. The Biden administration is currently doing its best to purge the military of all real men. So, the government of the future could send soldiers in, but who will those soldiers be? Transexuals and women. Against an armed populace? I just can’t see it.

        What I can see is these kinds of policies leading to a civil war or civil unrest that will be seen as an opportunity by foreign enemies such as China.

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      3. I know. From what I can tell, suburbanites who vote liberal are almost but not quite too stupid to live. They are also incredibly arrogant, and as you point out, very envious of the rich, even though they themselves are pretty well off. But they can’t stand the idea of anybody having more than they do. So, they gravitate towards leftism, but if somebody comes along wanting to kick them out of their homes? I can’t see them going along with it.

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      4. Yes,onAmerican Thinker yesterday there was a piece about how Calif’s Marin County is appealing a “regional housing mandate” which will render their area, ah, “economically diversified”. Too funny. You shitheads voted for this!!! You pathetic boobs don’t even have the vocabulary to object. Hey bozos: can you say “property values”? Nah forget it, I know you can’t. LOSERS!!!

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      6. Tucker Carlson is reporting on this issue right now. According to him, the measures you speak of, Hypatia, are a major part of the new infrastructure bill.

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  3. “Why did the suburbs vote for Biden?”

    With all the reading I do, you think I could answer this answer but I cannot. I could give you all the explanations in the world about the have nots, but have absolutely no clue about the haves.

    Am reading my 8th Thomas Sowell book on this subject and hopefully he can finally clarify. My guess? Some of these ‘haves’ aren’t doing as well as they’d like and appear to be resentful.

    One word for it? D-E-B-T plus low interest rates that appear to allow ignorant people to dismiss income taxes, property taxes, health insurance, liability, jewelry and home insurance, not to mention wind and flood!

    Recently, a neighbor offered to sell me his two acres for a horse and a mule; it would have been nice to have had total seclusion but I don’t need anymore taxes or extra HOA fees.

    I’ll suffer.

    P.S. I also agree with Jac’s comment above.

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  4. Well you may wanna reconsider… I think land ownership is the only way to control what happens I. Your immediate vicinity. For a while. Until our govt nationalizes land.

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      1. I agree with Miss Hypatia. I w0uld buy that land because it is cheap f0r the time being and G0d ain’t making m0re 0f it.

        My childh00d BFF’s ‘rents b0ught the adjacent l0ts all ar0und their suburban h0me. What a c0ncept!

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  5. Hypatia, have you encountered Thomas Sowell’s (footnoted) assertion that Black families were better off during “Jim Crow” than after the advent of the “Great Society” governmental manipulation? Amazing that the prevailing narrative (at least 60 years old) doesn’t stand up to the data, isn’t it?

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    1. I did, Nanda. He claimed the Great Society did nothing but kill incentive. And I always believe whatever he says because his assertions are based upon legitimate data.

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      1. I love that this is a man who only follows the data – and, he’s a retired Marine – Combat Camera, 1951. Jason Riley’s written a bio: “Maverick”.

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      3. The most interesting info revealed in this book is the open hostility displayed toward one of America’s greatest socio/economic minds. He had conflict with the colleges in which he taught and even quit several times because he refused to compromise his intellectual standards.

        Let us not fail to mention the ugly/ignorant comments made about him by both black and white liberals. (Senator Tim Scott is feeling the pain as well as his moniker is “Uncle Tim.” )

        I’m delighted Sowell has been at the Hoover for so long where he can research and write to his heart’s content among fellow scholars that appreciate his brilliance. 🙂

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      1. Yes, indeed, but I had just watched a documentary introduction to Riley’s book and reacted to it. No duplication intended. 🙂

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  6. On the other hand, one must admire the never ending ratcheting in only one direction we get from the demonically possesed Progz such as Omega, Mrs. Omega, and Hillary Rodham.

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    1. People don’t seem to get it that when you’ve achieved an ideal, “progress” is only gonna go in the other direction. But I can’t blame them because people on the Right preface every statement with “Sure, America isn’t perfect, but..”. STFU with that! America is, or was until recently, better, by every measure, than any other country has EVER been.
      There, I said it. Can anybody prove me wrong? Let’s hear it!

      So “conservative pundits” : STOP conceding ground to the Lefty liars before you even start your argument. It ain’t the way to win. The Left doesn’t do it. Y’ever hear one o’ THEM say, “Sure, America is the greatest country ever yet to exist on this benighted planet, but…” ? No you do not.

      I am struck in the last few weeks by the Left’s naked Alinskyism. Everybody knows what that is by now, which OUGHT to make it less effective, like when you’ve seen the workings of a magic trick. But it doesn’t! This weeks winner: “Its not Democrats who want to defund the police, it’s Republicans,”.

      Let’s hear somebody come forward and blame that black community in Tulsa for the riots that wiped them out. You can be damned sure that’s what the Left would be doing if the situation were reversed. Look at Jussie Smollet. He put Trump supporters’ lives in danger, or wanted to, if he hadn’t been so inept. But it turned out it wasn’t his fault, he had no choice but to resort to trickery and lies because he was a black TV star. Oh the societal pressure.

      I don’t know whether Trump will run again or whether he could win if he did. I think by 2024 the Electoral College will be gone. But God bless him and keep him for racketing around the country keeping our spirits up. Without him and Greg Gutfeld, I don’t know what I’d do.

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      1. I am t0ld Singap0re is a l0vely place t0 live. 0f c0urse that will change quickly as s00n as America’s military is c0mpletely t00thless and purpose is s0lely t0 c0ntr0l the US taxpayer.

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