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Monday, November 21, 2005
It's too bad that money can't buy good taste
The Post this Sunday told the story about the mini-boom in real, honest-to-goodness mansions outside of D.C. these days. People actually think that buying a 14,000 square foot house an hour or more outside of the city with 100% financing is actually a good investment. Then you have such decorative nuggets as these:
Inside, the foyer soars three stories to a small dome that is being painted with cherubs but is now just chubby heads floating in a cloud of blue. ... "Look in here!" he said, waving toward the dining room and its reproduction of Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel. "You ever seen seating for 20?!" When the bubble bursts, these people will be the first with their backs to the wall. Read the whole article here. |
1 Comments:
You're right. People need to see that acting in a way that is sustainable is often more economical, and more conservative. Buying a huge house that costs a fortune to heat, deliver utilities to, and commute from is not sound economic thinking.
I say, therefore, we stop pointing this out to these jackasses. We'll let them buy these stupid houses out in the middle of nowhere, and when the energy crunch comes we can just laugh and say, "you should've bought a prius rather than that Hummer!"
7:02 PM, November 21, 2005
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