Prop 90 Bends You Over A Chair And The Kiss Will Cost You
By Rex
Butters
Proposition 90 represents the
legislative equivalent of a nail to the head if you’re a citizen of
California, or indeed the state itself. If you’re part of a small cadre of
obscenely wealthy rightwing greedheads, this must be the ultimate wet dream.
Environmental protection, minimum wage requirements, and rent control disappear
with the punch of a chad.
While proponents point to an end to eminent
domain seizures as justification for this canker initiative, the broader use
would be to ban any government regulation on the use of land. But wait,
there’s more, now how much would you pay? More than you could imagine,
because Prop 90 makes it possible for the repellently avaricious to bleed money
from the state whenever they imagine their artificially inflated real estate
values aren’t yielding as much as their gaping maws could conceivably
consume.
Already a short sighted
national embarrassment, condo conversion could devour what apartments remain
rentable unabated under this measure. Prop 90 insures that natural resources,
wildlife and habitat, water quality and water supplies will be literally pissed
upon. For Venetians in particular comes the promise oil and gas drilling mucking
up our shamefully littered beaches. Too abstractly enviro? How many of us
already live in homes that will never again see the sun thanks to the new
architectural atrocity next door? Even these plaster disasters conform to some
regulatory standards that would fall before 90, welcoming even greater
grotesqueries. Too much traffic? Lines too long? Prop 90 clear cuts any
environmental impact considerations, density translating from the authors’
callous stupidity to your new choked
lifestyle.
Noise ordinances, design
guidelines, and historic preservation prevent someone from making a buck, but
that will change. A similar measure passed in Oregon, with equally heinous
provisions providing payouts to anyone imagining themselves underpaid by their
property resulting in 2,600 claims that will cost the state $6 billion.
Didn’t No-Neck Arnie muscle into office because California had already
been bitch slapped by Enron for $3 billion? Here is an excellent opportunity to
show that despite our wretched educational systems, we do have a learning curve.
Vote no on Prop 90, as often as you can.
Posted: Wed - November 1, 2006 at 10:52 AM