Thursday, July 02, 2009

Re: Your Green House   [Mark Steyn]

Stephen, speaking as a foreigner, I confess I'm finding it harder and harder to see why you fellows bothered holding a revolution. Under this bill, it will be illegal for me to sell my property to a willing buyer without first bringing it into line with some twerp bureaucrat's arbitrary and ever shifting "environmental" regulations originally designed for California, and which have helped turn the Golden State into the foldin' state, but which are nevertheless now to be applied from Maine to Alaska. And no matter what you spend a couple of years down the road the standards will be "revised" and you'll be out of compliance all over again.

In my part of New Hampshire, come the late fall you'll drive around and see many homes with plastic sheeting over windows and the less-used doors, and bales of hay round the foundation. I doubt that would pass muster with the twerp bureaucrat, but it's what self-reliant people of modest means do to get through the winter. Without that attitude there would be no United States.

This is an assault on property rights, and, more fundamentally, like so much of the Obama program, an assault on citizenship. It seems an odd way to mark "Independence" Day.

07/02 02:58 PMShare