[pianotech] Gated communities

[pmc033 at earthlink.net]

    Amen, Brother!

    Of course, this thread should at least be OT.  Or on another forum.  

    That said, I also have many customers in exclusive gated communities.  Some are townhomes (condos) in a complex with guard gates manned by security personnel.  They work and shop where everybody else does.  I see that they want security, not any kind of "disconnect" from general society.  They just don't want burglars, prowlers, peeping Toms and whatnot to have access to their neighborhoods.  

    People don't like having somebody else dictate to them how to think or be forced to accept someone else's norms if they find them offensive or deviant.  I don't live in a certain part of town because I don't feel comfortable there.  Why should I live in a crime-infested neighborhood just be politically correct?  Why should I feel guilty if I choose to live somewhere else?   If you want to talk about breaking away from society, like a Jim Jones, David Koresh or some other cloistered cult, maybe you could make some argument.  But gated communities being some kind of social phenomenon is just over the top.  It's just not true.

    Let's not read more into this than is really there.  Gates are for security, period.

    Paul McCloud
    San Diego




   From: David Pritchard 
To: pianotech at ptg.org
Sent: 11/22/2009 6:33:57 AM 
Subject: Re: [pianotech] Gated communities


 William Truitt wrote:


It is an indisputable statistical fact that the rich are getting richer, and everybody else is getting poorer – more and more wealth is concentrating in the hands of fewer and fewer people, and that has accelerated during this great economic crisis that we still find ourselves in.  Who amongst us piano technicians does not feel assaulted by these economic changes?  It is not to our benefit when fewer and fewer people feel they can afford our services.  
 




I agree 100%!  If the liberals among us would stop promoting the welfare state for the purpose of growing their docile voting block, we could encourage more people to work hard and get themselves out of poverty.  If Barney Frank and his cronies in congress hadn't forced mortgage companies to loan to people that couldn't afford the house they wanted, we wouldn't be in this economic crisis.  The farther down the road we go towards socialism, the more the producers in society will not have a reason to work hard and the more the non-producers will expect more and more from the government.


Can I hear an Amen?


David
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