WTF-LMAO at this piece of housing puffery!

[El Pinko]

Big changes
The average U.S. home measured 983 square feet in 1950. By 2006, the size of the average newly built house was 2,434 square feet. One in 10 homes had three-car garages in the early 1990s; today it's one in five. About 25 percent have three or more bathrooms. Nearly 40 percent have four or more bedrooms.





http://redding.com/news/2008/jan/26/flipped-super-sized-or-otherwise-americans-love/

Flipped, super-sized or otherwise, Americans love their houses

James Prichard, Associated Press
Saturday, January 26, 2008


Americans love homes.

We love designing them, building them, decorating them, renovating them, expanding them, owning them.

We love showing our homes to other people. We love looking at other people's homes. Given the popularity of Home & Garden Television's "House Hunters," we even love looking at other people while they are looking at other people's homes.

Americans also love outdoing their neighbors, which is partly why our houses are getting a lot bigger than they used to be, writes Daniel McGinn in the recently published, "House Lust: America's Obsession with Our Homes" (Currency, 272 pages, $24.95.)





Whatever these people are smoking, I want some of it. We are just barely at the beginning of the worst housing crash of all time, with massive aftershocks just beginning to rumble though the economy, and these people are still pushing this McMansion/Flip this House BS?

Anyone want to bet this is in the $2 bin at Barnes & Noble in 6 months tops?

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x2790235

[lurky]

1. Reminds me of this classic:

Published in 1999, right before the dot-com bubble popped. Oops.

[El Pinko]

3. LOL - That must be a collector's item.

I still remember reading in TIME magazine in about 1999 that it was a "new economy" and that because it somehow operated free of the constrictions of the old "brick and mortar" industries, that there was never going to be another recession again, or something to that effect.

[lurky]

4. A "New Paradigm"

I remember that too. Whenever people start saying the laws of nature have changed, I think it's time to bunker down.

[ClintonTyree]

2. Most Americans are greedy , selfish pigs.......

always wanting WAY MORE than their fair share. We have a feeling of entitlement in this country, and it's fueled by people like Bush and other Reich-wing hacks who see America as god's chosen land. Hooray for US and to hell with everyone else. It's inevitable that the U.S. has to pay the piper for this kind of unrestrained gluttony.

Do these people, for one minute, think about the fact that their "lifestyle" is the reason young Americans are losing their lives in Iraq? Nope.....they just consume more and more, taking an ever increasing portion of the pie. The old Gordon Gecko, "greed id good" mantra is still the driving force for too many Americans. It will eventually be the downfall of this country, but they'll have theirs! But not for long. :grr: