At a time when regions of America are being devastated by the new economy and rising energy prices, millions losing their jobs, hundreds of thousands at risk of losing their homes, that housing development looks good to me. Wide, open spaces for trap ranges are plentiful. Homes mean families, jobs; ranges mean fun and games to me.
From comments on our board, it seems to me that many members are living in a time-warp, a cocoon i.e. $5,900 guns and anxiety over the cost of shot while 10,000,000 cars are forecast to be forced from the road within a year and desperate times looming for legions of families without jobs, health insurance, transport to work and school.
I don't think Americans generally have grasped the extent of their country's decline---hopefully of limited duration. Russia's foreign exchange reserve, built on petro dollars, is now the world's third-highest after China and Japan. Canadians, a tenth of America's population with world's ninth-largest economy, are wealthier than Americans by a full 30 per cent of median family net worth and about half US personal debt but feeling the recession because US is our biggest customer.
No, those homes of the young, upward-climbing professionals and craftspersons, contributing their energy, imagination and entrepreneurial skills to make the United States the glorious country it is, are a preferable landscape to me than the barren lands of trap ranges. They can be made in an afternoon or, with a small dozer, over a holiday weekend.
Members of this board, by and large, are a privileged minority. I'm certainly one of them.
