| "I'm a pretty conservative person, and I didn't like being treated like a bleeding-heart liberal," Commissioner John Gillard of the Affordable Housing Commission was quoted in the Loveland Reporter Herald 8/11/06 |
| Why The Quote Is So Absurd In 1991 50% of all housing in the former Soviet Union was still in Government hands and managed by the government housing authrority. In order to improve conditions and create a market driven economy, reformers began slowly turning over government owned housing to the private sector. Just as the world's largest social, centrally controllled economy was beginning to recognize the failure of Marxisism, a group of Loveland residents were planning to begin an endeavor that would make the Loveland Housing Authority the single largest property management firm in Loveland while slowly increasing the share of public housing in Loveland. Boris Yeltsin wanted to end public housing in the Soviet Union after he discovered working class Americans live in better housing than any other population in the world. Commissioner John Gillard's quote is absurd because he allowed himself to become involved in a vision closer to those of Marx and Engels instead of Adam Smith. Today 4% of all housing in Loveland has been socialized and private sector is feeling the pinch. Now the commission created to advise Council wants a "bigger role" in the long-term housing market of Loveland. The McWhinneys, to their credit, rejected the local government intervention and refused any subsidized housing. West Loveland is now left to struggle in the long-term with higher crime, possible lower values and maybe more government subsidized housing. See the report August 12, regarding the increasing crime in and around Loveland government subsidized housing. Special Business Tax Proposed Especially outrages has been the suggestion by the Affordable Housing Commission that new businesses in the community be taxed to pay for their growing "role." Taking the fruits of labor directly out of the private sector to fund government subsidized housing (as this proposes to do) is called "transfer of wealth." It is classic socialism and has failed in the Soviet Union, Cuba, North Korea and to even in a modified form in Western Europe where the average home size is half that of the United States. Read our special report tomorrow - |
| Suggested sculpture that could decorate the entrance to the Loveland Housing Authority (Marx and Engels) Marx and Engels believed the private sector was incapable of providing adequate housing for the masses. Therefore, they advocated a transfer of wealth and private property to the public sector (government) that would than decide which citizens were worthy of the "public's housing." The result was the tragedy called the Soviet Union where multiple families were forced to share terrible concrete apartments due to the lack of housing. John Gillard, you need to understand that to propose taking more money from the private sector to increase quasi-government ownership of housing is not liberal but a socialist concept. A "conservative person" would instead be looking for a way to return the property to private hands and get the government out of the business of competing with the private landlords. |