Harry Krause wrote:
On 12/4/2006 7:24 AM, JohnH wrote:
On Sun, 03 Dec 2006 20:51:22 -0500, "Reginald P. Smithers III"
wrote:

Don White wrote:
JohnH wrote:
On Sun, 03 Dec 2006 18:17:59 GMT, "Calif Bill"

wrote:


"Don White" wrote in message
...

Wow! Three islands saved from development and left for boaters
to enjoy. It doesn't get any better than this.
see.. 'Surprise Announcement'
www.mahoneislands.ns.ca

note: a number of islands have been bought up by 'rich
Americans' in the last few years...some completely stripped of
forestry and signs erected warning locals to stay away.
Then maybe rich Canadians should buy the islands and donate to a
nature conservancy?

I wondered who were the dumb asses that sold the islands to those
horrible
rich Americans!

Greedy people blinded by that yankee dollah.
Don, don't you just hate those rich son of a bitches?

He's been asked to show that the rich sons of bitches were, in fact,
Americans as he alleged. I haven't seen his response to that yet.



It's almost always "good" when this sort of development is stopped, no
matter how.

I'm still happy over the fact that our county commissioners and the
local voters stopped Wal-Mart dead in its tracks with an intention to
build some sort of "superstore" down here. The county continues to raise
its "impact" fee to discourage tract builders. But we do encourage
locally owned small businesses in existing commercial areas. Waterfront
development is allowed but the controls are pretty strict.
The local battle cry is, "Let's not become another Fairfax County."
Fairfax County is a densely populated county in Northern Virginia that
used to be a pleasant place to live. Not anymore. It's overdeveloped,
with clogged roads, overcrowded schools, declining infrastructure,
million dollar houses on an eighth of an acre lots, the whole catastrophe.

Yet people still want to live there. Fairfax county has jobs, jobs, and
more jobs with good schools and the best thing is that it is in a right
to work state.