Comments on: Treat The Cause, Not The Disease https://boiseguardian.com/2018/08/25/treat-the-cause-not-the-disease/ A different slant on the news. Thu, 30 Aug 2018 18:51:25 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: western guy https://boiseguardian.com/2018/08/25/treat-the-cause-not-the-disease/#comment-105243 Thu, 30 Aug 2018 18:51:25 +0000 https://boiseguardian.com/?p=15109#comment-105243 Growth = congestion. STreets downtown boise have lanes blocked off for construction. Really?

]]> By: Yossarian_22 https://boiseguardian.com/2018/08/25/treat-the-cause-not-the-disease/#comment-105232 Wed, 29 Aug 2018 15:32:19 +0000 https://boiseguardian.com/?p=15109#comment-105232 This is Agenda 21 on course. Load up cities with as many people as possible. I get why people want to leave Commifornia and escape to refuges like Idaho, but we WILL become another Cali if this continues. Communities are just like porridge, it can be too hot, too cold and just right. We want to be just right. At some point we need to tighten the doorway. I think we’re there now. Fifteen years ago, I was singing the Smart Growth hymnbook. Never again! This stuff is dangerous. I don’t want to lose what is best about what we have. We have plenty of other issues to work on. Being too small is not one of them.

]]> By: Porcupine https://boiseguardian.com/2018/08/25/treat-the-cause-not-the-disease/#comment-105231 Wed, 29 Aug 2018 12:29:12 +0000 https://boiseguardian.com/?p=15109#comment-105231 The Lyrics of one of my favorite Eagles songs comes to mind in Boise today…
“And you can see them there on Sunday morning
Stand up and sing about what it’s like up there
They called it paradise, I don’t know why
You call some place paradise, kiss it goodbye”

]]> By: Lots of baby steps https://boiseguardian.com/2018/08/25/treat-the-cause-not-the-disease/#comment-105230 Wed, 29 Aug 2018 05:03:04 +0000 https://boiseguardian.com/?p=15109#comment-105230 I recently passed, on my regular route to work in the Boise core, a home that had been for sale. 2 car garage, 3 car driveway. It now has cars with California and Idaho plates, and there are usually three cars in the driveway and one car in the front yard.

What is wrong with this picture? Are extended families all trying to act grown up and independent by having cars at the parent’s house? Or, is it a many person rental now, therefore cash flowing? What is wrong with these property owners’ actions? How can the community make this overcrowded set up wrong with some kind of disincentive? How can the community address the disorder regarding vehicles in the existing neighborhoods to avoid concerned and salt of the earth people moving to neighborhoods with covenants and regulations? They need enforcement or they can’t. Apparently enforcement isn’t happening, so then what?

And, for the record, our roads are not California roads. California’s are generally much better, but during the rush hours to and from work, they are crowded. Better engineered, better marked, and better driven by smarter and educated drivers. There is a strategy to driving, and it is sort of dictated by the road logic, which could be lacking by throwing down pavement around here.

Blah, blah.

It is not that hard to predict that a truck will hit a bridge. All it takes is a truck.

]]> By: Tax Rankings Please https://boiseguardian.com/2018/08/25/treat-the-cause-not-the-disease/#comment-105228 Tue, 28 Aug 2018 19:32:00 +0000 https://boiseguardian.com/?p=15109#comment-105228 The most useful book one could publish/sell in America today is a book ranking total taxation. The result of such would be competition between the taxing districts for people and businesses with money. You may have noticed the tax loving liberal scum media is careful not to ever compare locations in this way.

Additional chapters could cover oppressiveness of regulation and crime rates and other livability factors.

]]> By: Voting is a scam https://boiseguardian.com/2018/08/25/treat-the-cause-not-the-disease/#comment-105227 Tue, 28 Aug 2018 16:12:26 +0000 https://boiseguardian.com/?p=15109#comment-105227 “None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.” Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

So, the BIG PLAN seems to be to (1) Get more people to vote, or (2) Vote better people into office.

News flash! The people who are making fortunes from the growth are the same ones that own and control the TV and newspapers and the (fake) content they provide.

People vote for the “electable” candidate, anointed as such by the Main Stream Corporate Media. We are trapped in a cage where the Oligarchs (Rule by the Rich) are in control of what the citizens think is “news”, but is really just propaganda to enrich the wealthiest few among us.

The (fake) news endlessly tells us that voting is important, when it is really just a tool to legitimize a totally corrupt system.

The only solution is to tear down “the system” because it no longer serves the needs of the citizens. The politicians, corporate news media, bankers and the wealthy need to be eliminated from positions of control and influence.

Our lawbooks also need to be tossed in the trash because they are tools of control for the wealthy, and not in the interest of the many.

]]> By: BenchTD https://boiseguardian.com/2018/08/25/treat-the-cause-not-the-disease/#comment-105225 Mon, 27 Aug 2018 03:19:28 +0000 https://boiseguardian.com/?p=15109#comment-105225 Sorry folks, the cat is outta the bag…Boise will continue to grow. Not sure why people move here when there aren’t the numbers of jobs to support it, but they keep coming. SO, let’s grow well and vote in mayors, city councilors, etc., who will grow us in a way that keeps our city the way we like it. Bring in corporations who are willing to pay for the ‘right’ to be here; stop developers from building homes 8 feet apart; actually plan roads and traffic flows. Embrace growth, but in the proper way.

]]> By: Eagle Writer https://boiseguardian.com/2018/08/25/treat-the-cause-not-the-disease/#comment-105224 Mon, 27 Aug 2018 01:50:02 +0000 https://boiseguardian.com/?p=15109#comment-105224 “Why not stop encouraging people to come to Boise…?” Spot on Mr. Guardian, however that plan is already underway. The building of high density low income or subsidized housing will put large numbers of low income people on the city streets – people without the means to support the expensive eateries along 8th Street, and vicinity. Regulars will stop eating there, the eateries will close and Boise downtown will deteriorate.

]]> By: George Moses https://boiseguardian.com/2018/08/25/treat-the-cause-not-the-disease/#comment-105223 Sun, 26 Aug 2018 21:05:09 +0000 https://boiseguardian.com/?p=15109#comment-105223 Well, heck, this one’s easy. We’ll just stop folks from having so many kids. If your object is not to grow, that’s what you do. Because more people equals … you guessed it.

]]> By: Clippityclop https://boiseguardian.com/2018/08/25/treat-the-cause-not-the-disease/#comment-105222 Sun, 26 Aug 2018 20:26:37 +0000 https://boiseguardian.com/?p=15109#comment-105222 No doubt in my mind, we are headed for another Big Short. Just like last time, local folks will be taking out loans they can’t afford, out of state speculators will drive up home and rental prices as before then poof, lots of vacancies and foreclosures. This unbridled growth dream is not sustainable. Meantime, the taxpayers will be picking up the tab and dealing with the aftermath of poor City and County planning and rubber stamping. Vote them out and vote in those with backbone, foresight for the community and the ability to say no to destructive development.

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