I think Larry Sommers would take exception to 'then run away to the Cayman
Islands'. You just hang around and get a job in the next admin.
JH


> From: John Leeke <[log in to unmask]>
> Reply-To: The listserv where the buildings do the talking
> <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: Thu, 4 Feb 2010 09:19:42 -0500
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: [BP] A Crash of Buildings
> 
>>> the houses were built
> during the cold weather of the winter "imitation" mortar being
> used...[the builder] drove rapidly from the scene to his house on East
> Seventy-seventh street, and disappeared; <<
> 
> The times, they are NOT a'changin'. Sounds a lot like they build some
> houses now with imitation windows made of plastic and imitation siding
> made of cardboard, imitation framing and sheathing made of wood chips,
> sawdust and monkey juice, etc. It's easy enough to sell these cartoon
> structures to a generation that grew up watching cartoons on TV, but the
> big trick is to get the houses to stand long enough to resell the
> mortgage and then run away to the Cayman Islands.
> 
>>> an excited crowd had
> gathered whose threats of vengeance on the reckless builder filled the
> air.<<
> 
> Well, maybe the the times are a'changin'. Now the builders and
> developers are rewarded with million-dollar bonuses, bailouts and tax
> breaks.
> 
> 
> John (live is too short to be an optimist any longer) Leeke
> 
> www.HistoricHomeWorks.com
> 
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