Posted by
Bic Darling on Saturday, September 20, 2008 5:56:21 PM
I'll be taking off for five weeks at the end of September, the trip will take me through the western part of the old Texas Republic and I'll be rolling in a Jeep so even the dirt roads will be traveled . The old Republic included; Texas and parts of New Mexico, Colorado and Wyoming. The month of October also is a month that just so happens to be during one of the most historic elections in our history. Regardless of who wins it is the minority who wins, be it a black man or a woman. It's a fascinating election to a guy who was born in 1964 (same as Sarah Palin) which was the last year of the baby boomer's and the year the Civil Rights Bill was signed, hence The Last Hippie name for the blog. Mixed in with the historic and cultural aspects of the election is an economic crisis and a war. What do the people of American small remote towns/villages have to say? I'm going to ask them. I'll be driving the back roads and staying in desert towns and mountain villages from Terlingua and Marfa Texas to Taos New Mexico. I'll be including links to stories and photos of the characters and their opinions, funky little towns, restaurants and sites along the way. Having been through there just a month ago on a 4,000 mile journey I can guarantee it will be interesting, educational entertaining and above all, American.
But until then here is my opinion of what to do with all of the houses that we the tax payers now own. We just pulled a socialist move and nationalized huge companies and bought a lot of forclosed homes for dimes on the dollar. The beauty is it was the republicans that did it and I'll bet my last dollar that the tax payers ending up making out like bandits when this deal has run its path. We scored huge at the fire sale and the question is what to do with the loot now that we own it. Here is an option....
1.The Feds should set up a recycling business and give tax deductions to builders who build green and do business with the US taxpayer recycled materials business. The business profits go toward paying the bad debt.
2. If the foreclosed properties set on the market for more than 365 days demolish them and take the material for the fed/tax payer owned recycling business and sell the material to suppliers or builders for build green houses and take advantage of the green tax breaks. The demolition of these homes will in itself create a new avenue for American entrepreneurs.
3. Offer the tax payer owned vacant lots where the foreclosed properties had sat to individuals or builders who only build efficient green houses and use US taxpayer recycled goods in them . Take the proceeds from the lots and pay 100% toward the debt load from the crisis.
Look at the foreclosed properties like junker cars, their value is in the parts not the whole thing. I mean think of all the material that will just sit wasting away when money could be made. Instead of box neighborhoods where rows of houses have the same basic look builders can come, snap up lots and add a little green personality the hood. Think Macmansions but green. Vacant lots will become available again in neighborhoods throughout the country and people can build there own green home, nurture the budding new green economy and help the country pay off the debt. It will be forward thinking and patriotic to build a new home under a plan like this.
There is my 2 cents worth, the next blog will be from the road. .