NIMBY is the most powerful political force in every western country.
It's far easier killing off any new economic and public development at the local level than any national level environmentalist or small government movement could ever dream for.
It's far easier killing off any new economic and public development at the local level than any national level environmentalist or small government movement could ever dream for.
If you can't see past poverty, I could just as well ask: why do people live in expensive homes on the sides of eroding oceanside cliffs?
> “I’m here to ask this court today to send this money back to the Biden administration, which I consider to be the most criminal treasonous communist government ever to hold the White House,” one resident told commissioners in April 2022, fearing strings were attached to the money.
> “We don't want to be bought by the federal government, thank you very much,” another resident told commissioners. “We'd like the federal government to stay out of Kerr County and their money.”
Translation: Not in my back yard.