Comments by "kansasthunderman1" (@kansasthunderman1) on "City Beautiful" channel.

  1. Just cut out corporate welfare and let businesses work for a living like the middle class does.
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  2. China is a worse threat than Russia and Trump is smart to put tariffs on goods imported from China.
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  3. Oh really??? You believe that being a renter in a city instead of owning your own home in the suburbs isn't being a debtor and a wage slave? Also that cushy suburban home represents equity and bot just debt. Furthermore, owning a car isn't about wealth, it's about being able to go anywhere and anytime you want. Have you seen all those cars headed OUT of densely urbanized areas in the afternoon commute? That is an indication that people don;t want to live in big cities.
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  4. You hit the nail squarely on the head. We cannot continue to have en economy based on open ended population growth and development. However big business sees more and more people (through births and immigration) as an economic boon.
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  5. Get back on your antipsychotic medicatioin.
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  6. Huhh??? I don;t understand a damn thing you've said and I don't believe you do either.
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  7. The government will force people to live in high density cities by slapping taxes and fees on private cars and driving.
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  8. Most mass transit is so full of thugs that it's just a prison on wheels.
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  9. It's not a matter of wanting VS having to live there. They don't have the $$$ to afford to live outside NYC and drive into the city. So they're stuck there.
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  10. There are more injuries on mass transit than driving a private car. You can't have 30 people riding standing up on a crowded bus with out falls and serious injuries.
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  11. The failure of this pedestrian mall is no surprise. People need some way to get to and from it in a timely manner. If the street is removed to create a mall, there needs to be a parking garage close by and a transit hub. Without parking or transit, no one will come.
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  12. The life expectancy in Japan VS the U.S. is a genetic factor that has nothing to do with whether people live in an apartment in a big city or a single family home. If a person of Japanese ethnicity came to live in Kansas and an American went to live in Tokyo, there would be no change in their life expectancy and I don;t need to travel more to know the reasoning behind this phenomenon. Furthermore, most people in the U.S. don;t want to live in high density cities like Tokyo or Hong Kong and rely on mass transit. They prefer low density and private cars. If we let the market determine where people want to live, people will go for an apartment in a low density area or a private home. And that's what I'm seeing here in San Francisco.
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  13. You can rezone San Francisco for taller buildings until the cows come home and it won;t make housing more affordable for the middle class. Increase the supply of high rise housing is just increasing the supply of HIGH PRICED housing, but it does NOT make housing more affordable. I suppose your next silly excuse will be that building more expensive high rises for the wealthy will free up more low rise, lower cost housing for the middle class. That kind of reasoning sounds like something straight out of the Three Stooges.
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  14.  @javiercs006  Taxes also go to fund all sorts of special interest stuff that does not benefit anyone except the politically connected.
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  15. Have you been to Africa (especially Somalia or Ethiopia) lately? The people live in poverty because they are too busy waging war on each other. And they also keep poppiing out babies they can't support either.
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  16. Most people don;t want mass transit and they prefer to drive. Furthermore, they are not going to pay 30% to 40% more to live in a in a Manhattan style high rise and ride crowded trains. Just look at all the traffic congestion on the Bay Area freeways. That tells you people are voting with their feet and rejecting high density urbanization.
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  17. Just keep up all the development in an Francisco and traffic will be backed up 24/7 like a clogged drain. Forget about mass transit and bike lanes. Most people don't want them.
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  18. Those wood framed 5 to 6 floor buildings are fire traps and once they get ignited, they go up in an inferno that cannot be controlled. At least 20 of those big box housing complexes have gone up in flames and the fire department was not able to save them. If there are enough of these tinder boxes in one area, they will crate a fire storm like Chicago or San Francisco after the 1906 earthquake.
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  19. Hopefully Trump's tariffs will stilfle China's economic growth and collapse the real estate market along with it.
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  20. Yep - The "Deep State One World Government Complex" is intruding into every country on the planet.
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  21. If there's a severe earthquake like the one that hit San Francisco in 1906 (and the whole place goes up in a mass inferno), sprinklers won;t have enough pressure to keep all that wood framing from igniting. The sprinklers could have an auxiliary tank on the roof and a fire pump, but that would also require a back up generator. With all the back up systems, the cost of residential buildings will go through the roof and no one except high income can afford to live in them. Furthermore, California already has a severe problem fighting plain vanilla wild fires, but if an entire city full of medium rise wood framed buildings goes up, the state will go bankrupt and require a federal bailout.
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  22. Yes, let's build hyper dense termite nest cities so people can ride like cattle on an over crowded mass transit. However, most people are flat out rejecting that idea and they're sticking to their cars.
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  23. In San Francisco, there are actually 1000s of vacant storefronts and the boutique clothing shops in the same neighborhood hardly have any customers either. Landlords have foolishly raised rents on speculation that people would be willing to pay what the market would bear. However, they're not bearing it and they're moving out of the city. It's also interesting that many new housing developments are also sitting vacant. The whole housing crisis is in fact propaganda intended to fuel speculation and it's a Ponzie Scheme waiting to collapse.
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  24. Uber and Lyft aren't compromising mass transit. They are just providing an alternative to mass transit that most people don't want to use in the first place.
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  25. You got that right. It's the same reason why people prefer to drive a private car instead of taking public transportation.
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  26. You can't build either underground or elevated when there are already water, sewer, and gas lines running under the streets. Even a surface rail line requires relocating manholes and other underground features and the cost is $millions per mile.
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  27. His channel is nothing but propaganda from the real estate and construction industry.
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  28. Efficiency is not an issue for most people. Low density housing is for quality of life and not for efficiency.
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  29. So called "Transit Oriented Development" is a complete myth. People don't want to ride crowded buses and trains.
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  30. In a capitalist free market economy, "sustainability" is based on which commodity has the most value and is cost effective. However, if the government has to intervene in the commodities market and start providing subsidies for common items like building high rise apartment buildings and mass transit, then the free market has been subverted. Unfortunately, California's economy is already so dependent on government money that transitioning to a pure free market would cause an all out depression.
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  31. The entire world does not own the U.S. and we are not ruled by the United Nations. We can still choose the living and transportation we want - not what the government mandates.
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  32. Texas currently doesn't have the demand that Silicon Valley has. Furthermore people want to be there because employment is highly concentrated in an already overdeveloped area.
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  33. Both of those places have tons of corporate welfare which encourages businesses to flock there.
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  34. If the U.S. invested in mass transit in instead of freeways, there would be a lot more stabbings on trains and stations.
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  35. Yeah right. Let's enact communism and get rid of individual governments. It really worked in the old Soviet Union and a "top down" approach would do wonders for democracy.
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  36. California is also currently 3,000,000 water supplies short of demand. So are we going to be building housing without any plumbing?
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  37. You hit the nail squarely on the head. You cannot have an economy based on the Cancer Cell model of endless population growth and development. However, some people claim there is no such thing as overpopulation. So if you've got melanoma on your skin, just keep letting it keep growing and spread throughout your body.
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  38. More density won't work. The city (and the entire region) is already overdeveloped. See all those cars on the 101 and 280? That's sure sign that "smart growth" isn't working and it will never work in the Bay Area or anyplace else.
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  39. Yes! Yes! Yes! San Francisco should compete more in the Race To Hell and build the most overpopulated, overcrowded city you could ever imagine. And don't stop runaway growth at the city line. Make it spread like a cancer cell into surrounding communities until the whole region is covered with high density prison cell housing. While we're at it, let's also impose a "top to bottom" approach to urban planning just like what was done under Communism. That way, you can turn the entire U.S. into a coast to coast concentration camp.
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  40. "Density" (a polite way of saying "more crowded") is not a high quality of life and most people here in the U.S. don;t want it. Here in San Francisco, the city is already so densified that people can't get around in a timely manner and traffic is a mess. There are already 1000s of vacant storefronts in new high density development and people are voting with their feet and rejecting the concept. So quite trying to promote some "Shovel with a rope handle" approach to urban planning.
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  41. What in the Hell are you going to do with a crap load of traffic that comes with high density development? Most people prefer to drive and the Bay Bridge will be a 24/7 parking lot.
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  42. California's government is always trying to undermine Prop 13 so they can raise taxes through the roof and have more $$$ to squander on politically connected special interests. If you think the homeless problem is bad now, just look at what would happen if Prop 13 were repealed and the taxes on a cubby hole studio condo go up to $20,000 a year.
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  43. Being able to walk down the side walk without running into someone else.
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  44. There are no restrictions on building height in San Francisco or any large city in California. The planning department and the building codes have been cut out of any authority to control development and permits are being rubber stamped.
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  45. Wheels and roads have been around since the beginning of civilization and Hitler didn't invent cars or freeways. Furthermore, people are voting with their $$$ and they're still buying and driving cars.
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  46. Yeah right. Let's have more government subsidized affordable housing projects and taxes will go through the roof.
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  47. Just cut out corporate welfare and one the government money supply dries up, the cost of housing will drop like a rock
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  48. There are no height restrictions. The Salesforce tower is over 1000 feet.
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  49. You wish you had something like BART in L.A.? Just find a bad part of town where there's a stabbing every night and it will be like BART.
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  50. Most people who shop at stores with parking lots drive there to begin with. People who walk or bike are minority of the customers. Without parking lots, most stores would go out of business.
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