who is to blame for the traffic, urban sprawl and crazy housing prices?

Question

Is it the people who have too many children?
how many is too many?

Answer 1

not enough highway funds to widen the roads and highways.

We live in a city that pays very poorly, yet housing costs keep rising. Yes, people search for cheaper places to live where they can still commute to work. This may create urban sprawl. The children have nothing to do with it - they are not driving, they are in school busses, if anything. What does having too many children (which is a personal choice) have to do with traffic, anyway?

Answer 2

NO it's not the kids ... contrarily it's the HIPPIES (who stopped having kids with Birth-Control and Abortion).

Hippies don't know how to drive. They each own around 4-5 cars; SUV's, Mini-Van's, Classic 1960's vehicles, and car's for each of their kids (sometimes two) ... fancying Hummers, and Monster Trucks. Around 25% of these so-called Hippies have toy's like RV's, boats, and jet-skies. Since they smoked so much pot in the 1960's-70's well they have brain damage, but are compensating for the inability to toke up by forcing doctors to perscribe pain-pills and stuff like morphine. Then they'll decide to take the jet ski's to work (25 miles away in heavy traffic) ... all along the way weaving in and out of the lanes with their ugly SUV hitched to a jet-ski (because they're too lazy to un-hitch the jet ski).

Urban sprawl is again to be blamed on the Hippies ... they loved the openness of the country and mountains; so when they got $ they built out away from the people ... until they relized that whoops, it's 25 miles to civiliztion, and then their needs brough in Walmarts ... eventually, these people freaked out and said, "Wait, I wanted to live in the meadows and pop-more pills" ... so they srpawled and repeated the cycle.

Crazy house prices are a cycle in the economy which reflects supply and demand. With the economy being in "Loose Money" well every joker with a pulse is apply for loans to get houses (there's an inverted price relationship between a houses price and interest rates) ... I wish I could blame this on the Hippies, but alas, they're just part of a cycle and there is no avoiding the cycle.

Answer 3

It depends on where you live. In my area, Democrats have been running the show for decades, so I definitely put a lot of the blame on them. They need more money, so they raise taxes - which drives people away - which makes less money for them - so they again raise the taxes. See where that's going?

In general, I believe that we can blame the welfare culture. People used to be able to live in the cities in which they worked. It wasn't as nice as the country, but it was safe. Then came welfare. They started rewarding women for getting knocked up and not having a man to support them. So, more and more women started having children out of wedlock. Without a strong male figure around anywhere, these kids become punks, drop outs, and drug dealers.

The inner city became more and more dangerous, and anyone with a job moved as far away as they could. That meant that they now had to drive to work instead of walking or taking a city bus. Homes outside the city are now more in demand, so the price goes up.

To answer your last question: How many children are too many? When you can't afford to pay for the needs of your kid and instead make me and other taxpayers pick up the tab, you've had too many.

Answer 4

Traffic: Blame urban planners who underbuild roads to try to force people into public transportation.

Suburban sprawl: Apparently that's what people want, otherwise they'd stay packed into the city like ants, the way the new urbanists would like them to.

Crazy housing prices: That's just market forces. The more desirable something is, the higher price it will fetch. You can still get cheap housing, if you go somewhere outside the high demand areas.

Answer 5

Either Canada or the metric system are to blame. Take your pick.

By the way, studies have shown that in order for a society to maintain it's population over generations, each married couple must have 2.1 children. Most couples have a lot of problems producing the extra tenth of a child without actually producing a whole one. This also might be part of the problem.

Answer 6

why do you need someone to blame? Honestly, US population growth isnt all that strong. So internal population growth is only a minimal contributor at this point in time. There are a couple of other reasons: 1) Shifts in population, people migrating to population centres (That is where we end up with a lot of people in 1 place (NE US, California) and nobody in another (Montana)) 2) An explosion in the number of illegal aliens in the US, 3) The legal migrants we allow into the US.

Answer 7

I think it is foreigners..where else would all those houses come from, and people to fill them. Urban sprawl is ridiculous, it looks terrible, these clusters of hundreds of houses. I hate it. People nowadays really don't have many kids, so it must be new people coming into the country that are filling up these houses.

Answer 8

All of us who have purchased homes and cars and live in the suburbs. I am as much at fault as most of the other people living in this country.

I feel bad but I'm not selling my house and moving to the city. That means I have to keep the car to get to work. I guess I'll continue to be part of the problem. What are you doing to fix the problems?

Answer 9

I blame the blacks for scaring everybody out of the city into the hills, which led to the development of suburbia and the need for superhighways and excessive reliance on automobiles.

And no, I haven't been drinking, Mr. Officer.

Answer 10

Too many people wanting to live in the same place at the same time.