Couple to be fined $500 a day for having a garden

[freshwest]

95. Yes, I've seen this video game quality landscape installed in woodland areas. Out of staters move in

and complain while living next to a forest that deer ate something... in conversations, you find that they came from arid locations that didn't have diverse woodlands and wildlife.

I kept wanting to say, if you didn't want to have trees on your property or the wildlife whose habitat those created, why did you move here...

The newer subdivisions have big houses on hills they clear cut, all with these Mario Brothers yards, that they nevr go outside to see anyway, as they while away their lives indoors.

I see this more as a home association idocracy, and a bit of snobbery. The garden is rustic and atractive to one class of people, but just too 'poor' to some.

Saw the same thing in rural areas taken over the nouveau riche, who object to the yard sales, fruit stands, roadside memorials and small businesses along the road to their mansions. They want to control everything, and they run out those they consider who don't belong.

And if the runoff from previously forested hills flood the people who lived there longer in the plains, they could care less.

I've seen local city councils move up to be with them and ignore what is happening below, just as they do in third world countries. They vote to close down parks, community centers, public transportation and everything else that held the older, now 'lower class' communities together.

Prosperity is a two-edged sword. Everyone wants some of it, but those who get is don't always respect how they got it. Then when they get it, they add religion or poltiical theories to say why they should not pay taxes or do anything but profit off the rest of the people in their area.

That home looks like a modest 'starter home,' as they were once called. Many people, myself included, at this juncture in our economy would find that to be a palace. But the class war goes on and people wear blinders to that.

These stories are typically spun as government oppression by teabaggers for their purposes, but they are simply enacting the will of those who voted for such laws. And while they scream against this, they still enable it.

I doubt if they'll ever be able to collect this fine, but I've seen wealthy newcomers shut down businesses that had existed for many decades and provided small town employment because it didn't match the aesthetics the rich wanted to see on their drive home.

Notably, these are usually in Republican strongholds. They accuse goverment when it's their 'neighbors' who want them gone.