Sometimes I like the oil slick reporting in the Miami Herald as my brain feels like it is going to explode some mornings from all the despair. There are days that I just want to know what Paris Hilton and Brittany Spears are doing and the Herald is helpful with that kind of news.
Cupcakes are left on the pillows in the South Beach Hilton rooms - excellent! Sign me in Paris!
Like Gimleteye (see previous post below), I too was surprised at the quality of the Grimm column today The filthy rich make our home unaffordable
However, I related a lot of what he said as an extension of my Dec. 5th post about the excesses of the wealthy — Bermello Wedding Bell Blues.
Grimm says he has been:”seething about South Florida’s ruthless development for years...” About the condo’s themselves he says:
“The finished product provides a part-time bed for the transient rich, who sleep through rush-hour traffic, whose kids attend private schools in Connecticut, who summer in Maine and ski in the spring in Aspen, who pay full-time taxes for a part-time residence.
Maybe we've been deluding ourselves. We have a woefully under-educated workforce, an underfunded school system and a state Legislature that filters science through the Old Testament. Florida's in no position to get a jump on other states in the new technologies.”
And, finally he says:
“Two percent of the world's population now control 50 percent of the world's worth. Our economic plan is pretty simple -- suck up to the 2 percent.” Bravo Fred, I couldn’t have said it better! That is our South Florida economy: Sucking up to the rich at the expense of everyone else.
Gimleteye on the Pinzur article Vacant condos, would-be buyers: Plan would bring them together is on target (see below). Anything Martinez and yours Truly Burton are happy about makes the hair on the back of my neck stand up: WATCH OUT!
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I am not impressed with a cupcake that costs that much.
I watched the Zoning Hearings today, how can they not understand that they have to allow smaller lot sizes (i.e. allow 3/4 acre in one acre neighborhoods) if they want to build closer to the urban centers? Seems like spliting the lot into houses twice of the number of people. Even if allows the builder double his money... It also takes one house out of the Everglades.
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