{"id":28633,"date":"2016-06-27T17:46:36","date_gmt":"2016-06-27T21:46:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=28633"},"modified":"2016-06-27T17:46:36","modified_gmt":"2016-06-27T21:46:36","slug":"i-am-nonplussed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=28633","title":{"rendered":"I Am Nonplussed!"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Aspen Times<\/a> posted an article today that totally amazes me. If someone can email me and tell me this is a hoax, I will actually be happy.<\/p>\n

The article reports:<\/p>\n

“If taxpayers didn\u2019t pay for my housing, I couldn\u2019t afford to live in Aspen. I\u2019d have to live 20 minutes away and commute to my Aspen office.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

The person who spoke those words gets a $2 million house here in Aspen. Under the city\u2019s \u201caffordable housing<\/a>\u201d lottery, taxpayers pay 80 percent to 90 percent of the cost for people making as much as $186,000 a year. Some of that subsidy is paid for by people making, oh, about $34,000 a year.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The words quoted above were her defense of that scheme. In short, she says the scheme is good because it\u2019s good for her.<\/strong><\/p>\n

It is one of the great ironies of our time that socialists no longer promote socialism<\/a> as beneficial to society. Instead, they promote it as beneficial to themselves personally.<\/strong><\/p>\n

As in, \u201cLet\u2019s forgive student loans so that I don\u2019t have to repay mine.\u201d And, \u201cLet\u2019s raise taxes on everyone who makes more than I do.\u201d And, \u201cLet\u2019s use taxpayer<\/a> money to buy multimillion-dollar houses in resort towns<\/a> for the upper middle class<\/a> because I want one.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

<\/blockquote>\n

Maybe it\u2019s time to officially change the name from \u201csocialism\u201d to \u201cselfish-ism.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

It gets worse:<\/p>\n

Speaking of cronyism and conflicts of interest among the \u201cin\u201d crowd, what are the ethical implications of City Council members who are living in taxpayer-subsidized housing<\/a> making decisions to route additional taxpayer money to those houses?<\/strong><\/p>\n

For their sake, I hope those City Council members have an ironclad legal opinion<\/a> on the legality and ethics of their conflict of interest<\/a>. And I hope it\u2019s not an opinion that compounds the conflict. By that, I mean it had better be an opinion from an independent lawyer and not one written at taxpayer expense by their subordinates in the City Attorney<\/a>\u2019s Office.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Wow. I think they need a new City Council!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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