Chewing the past

Ryland Homes is building a new neighborhood in Louisville, Colorado. First, they must prepare the site. This photo shows the destruction of the old farm house that is (was) an barrier to "progress."

 

This tractor seems to be chewing and spitting back the past.

 

 

I really hate to see this parcel of land carpeted with homes and grieve the loss of the beautiful views (not shown in this photo).

 

I love capitalism but feel that our society has so many perverse and complicated (often hidden) incentives that we are destroying what should be preserved unnecessarily. Our obsession to the "American Dream" of everybody owning a ome is just stupid. It has cause politician to skew our society toward more and more consumption, suburban creep, and in part to a financial crisis by inventing such stupid entities as Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae. We need to let capitalism work without all those "incentives" and limit government to the role of regulation (although they seem to not even do that very well, eg the BP oil spill was a failure of regulation).

 

I also believe in property rights but think we've somehow skewed what happens to property in favor of the greedy. It's likely that this farm was once subsidized, yet the owner feels absolutely no obligation to the taxpayers that subsidized his/her farm.

 

Lastly, I'd like to point out the "construction vehicles" are ofter "destruction vehicles" but that it would be bad marketing to call them that.

Done