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Date Posted: 04:00:23 03/28/00 Tue
Author: bnimble
Subject: Some stuff on Home Owners Associations and profits.
In reply to: GF 's message, "Home Owners Associations" on 07:26:46 03/27/00 Mon

> > If you get your little local gang/govt to abide
> > by one rule, I'd go along for a while:
> >
> > If a plan is put forth and some think the plan
> > is Great and Glorious or just good-to-do and I
> > vote agin the plan and the gang says, "ok,
> > next..." then I'm for the plan.
> >
> > As long as any one can make the claim
> > to be excluded and have it stick, I'm all for
> > this gummint, as you may call it. However, I
> > don't call it a gummint or a gang.
> >
> > Now, if something needs doing in order to
> > , there oughta be a profit in it.
> >
> > If there ain't, it won't get done...
> >
> > PERIOD
> >
> > Why is it there are so many folks who want
> > to beat someone over the head to realize
> > some fucking Disneyland-turned-Gulag
> > Grand Plan or other?
> >
> > BTW, "profit" ain't always about money.
>
> Understood. I'd certainly like to be able to
> participate at my option, and have the option to be
> excluded from any plans the "Group who meets on
> Sunday" might have for me. Even small groups can
> become tyrannical very quickly, as evidenced by Home
> Owners Associations.
>
> BTW, if "profit" ain't money and what it can buy, what
> be it??

Ah, HOAs... Glad I don't have to put up with
that bullshit, but it beats living under a gang
where you can't sell your citizenship.

Some folks find some "profit" in altruism. I usually
find it more profitable to help those who help
themselves.

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Replies:

value-for-value relationships -- GF, 07:59:23 03/31/00 Fri
- I like value. Who doesn't? -- bnimble, 06:10:09 04/01/00 Sat