[Mpls] Too Bad We Can't use What We Have More Efficiently

[Aaarty at aol.com]

Building ever more housing with taxpayer's money is wrong. We do  not use the 
housing we have efficiently. Houses now being built in the suburbs  and many 
in the city are bigger than ever and families are smaller. Thousands of  
people own more than one dwelling. Some have three with a lake home and maybe a  
condo in Florida. This is an example of how housing is used in the US.   Many 
dwellings sit empty for most of the year. No wonder the more humble and  meek 
among us are homeless. What can we do about the real estate speculators  that 
buy up any affordable housing, "flip it"  and turn it into  unaffordable 
housing? 
 
Way too many of the occupations of city dwellers is non essential  nonsense. 
>From every form of service slavery to the manufacturing of land mines,  war 
material, oversized everything and other ecological atrocities. We do  not need 
to accommodate and encourage more migration into Minneapolis. It will  be 
overwhelming without our help as people flee from the 117 degree temperatures  of 
the south. Many of the small farming towns of our state not only need more  
residents, it would be much more appropriate that people move to the country and 
 invest and work in organic farming, house construction and renewable energy  
technology. Don't tell me about homelessness. I lived in my car for two  
years when I dropped out to avoid paying taxes for the Viet Nam atrocity. I  know 
what homeless people go through and why. If we didn't have such an  obscenely 
wide gap between the super rich and the poor  many problems  could be 
mitigated including crime. The super rich would have us believe that  they actually 
earned their billions and luck, an educated work force,  hornswaggling , stock 
market gambling, taxpayer financed stadiums and  squandering the earth's 
diminishing resources for their dubious industries had  nothing to do with it. 
 
The children must be completely cared for at all costs. More on my  web site.

 
Sincerely,  Don Johnson, Candidate for Mayor, 3808 Grand Ave So. Minneapolis, 
MN 55409 (612)  824 1111 _www.DonJohnsonMayor.org_ 
(http://www.donjohnsonmayor.org/)