They’re on about the carbon footprint of Thomas Friedman’s estate, over at The Corner.
As Mark Steyn points out, Friedman likes Waxman-Markey because it “contains significant provisions to prevent new buildings from becoming energy hogs.”
But the bill says nothing about preventing new buildings from becoming Bigfoot. I’m reminded of a scene in Dr. Zhivago, in which Zhivago is informed by a People’s Commissar that the Moscow mansion his family lived in before the Revolution could (and should) have housed a lot more of the People — who are now milling about the mansion in numbers more suited to peace and justice.
“Yes, indeed,” says Zhivago, or words to that effect. “This is more just.”
We can wonder what will be the “just” dispensation of Friedman’s carbon footprint, come the Revolution.
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That’s Friedman’s home? Zowie, I guess the Times pays better than I thought (or his royalties are juicier).
July 26th, 2009 at 3:47 pm
I heard he married well. Very well.
July 26th, 2009 at 4:03 pm
And this doesn’t even show the slave quarters!
July 26th, 2009 at 4:04 pm
Those are the slave quarters, Barbara. You should see the master’s home….which is on the bottom side of the flat earth. It looks like a combination of the digs of Edwards, Gore, and Kennedy. The combined carbon footprints threaten to drain the sun.
Steven from Indiana
July 26th, 2009 at 4:21 pm
He married the daughter of one of the founders of General Growth Properties, which used to be one of the top three enclosed shopping mall real estate investment trusts.
Both of the founding brothers are now deceased, and, without their careful management, hired hands ran the company into the ground with reckless expansion and too much debt.
Probably Mrs. Bucksbaum- Friedman diversified her holdings long ago, so that lovely spread probably sits on top of a $100,000,000.00+ lake of munis and T-bills, more than enough for proper upkeep.
So many wealthy Democrats like Friedman see nothing wrong with raising taxes on small business owners, top surgeons, top traders, top investment bankers, top corporate executives and the like because their wealth was secured in trusts long ago, and they always seem to have friends locally and nationally who can design and redesign the tax code especially for them.
July 26th, 2009 at 6:08 pm