My town is considering changing the entire townscape (did I just create a new word?). I don’t know what’s going on with the town, and why there is this huge push to develop every square inch of my area…. but it does not bode well for those of us who prefer the small-town life and rural setting.
Upstate New York is going through a transition. A bad transition. Upstate is being eyed by large developers from other areas (New York City, for one), who see our area as a vast, untapped pool of resources that can feed the greed for these resources: Downstate (the area of New York City). It’s hard enough to earn a living here, with the low wages and high taxes; now we have to fight tooth-and-nail to keep and retain control of our own property from the developer wolves. Argh! They eventually want to turn our properties into powerline-strewn, windmill-stricken, highway-plastered parking lot. Argh!
I am concerned that private property means so little in modern America. “The greater good” (whatever that means, and whoever chooses its meaning) is this fascist kind of heresy that is taking over our country. Without property, we really have nothing left to be “free” for in this country. It is a great concern that we are losing our country.
Here’s a good example of what is going on in Upstate NY. This is an excellent article by friend Dan Weaver, titled “Beechnut and Corporate Welfare Queens.” Recommended reading.
March 17, 2008
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