Carl Hiaasen’s Overcrowding? Nature will fix that answers the question posed in my title. Carl says:
“In the absence of a sane growth-management policy, nature is becoming the great equalizer in Florida.”
A failed country on America's doorstep asks hard questions about Haiti in light of the deaths of many Haitians at sea recently. The editorial says:
“The more that the United States and the international community can do to stabilize Haiti's politics and help to rebuild its shattered economy, the less likely it would be that desperate people will cast their fate and lives to the sea.”
I hope you read the paper itself -- the photo is gut wrenching. Didn't see it online.
Then there is the Ana Menendez column Fantasy Island is anything but for its workers. Ana, I am mad at unions. They give large amounts of dough to all the useless Commissioners, including that Vile Natacha Seijas, and they gave against the strong mayor and to stop Natacha's recall. As illustrated in this column, workers could benefit from unions. However, I have a message for unions: Stop wasting money from your workers on people who give you crumbs...you need bread! Crumbs don’t cut it.
Putting my anger aside, the gulf between rich and poor is well cast in this column. Or should I say golf...read my post on the same subject Wealth and poverty in Miami.
P.S. Why are they rinsing cars that come off the Fisher Island Ferry during a drought?
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Look at this -- remember average in Tampa for a resident is about 100 gallons per day or about 5,000 gallons per year.
A Palm Beach Polo homeowner Cyththia Rupp according to the Sun Sentinel used 1.58 million gallons between March 2006 and March 2007, according to the latest village records available.
By comparison, an average Wellington homeowner would have to keep his sprinklers on more than four hours a day for a year, run his shower round-the-clock 219 days in a row, or flush an average modern toilet 987,500 times to use about the same amount of water as the village's top consumer, Cynthia Rupp.
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/palmbeach/sfl-ptopten05may05,0,4848897.story
Somehow the burden is always on the shrinking middle class and expanding poor, so the elite can reap all the benefits, and not be accountable.
well heck. Lets solve the water crisis by pouring marine concrete into that ladys pipes.
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