I recently wrote a letter to the editor of my School’s newspaper, it involved a resort that is being built in the local community. It’s going to be an expensive resort and like everything that involves the rich it has the lefties in my school going ape. What follows is the uncut version of my letter, I had to edit large portions of it for word constraints

I for one am tired of hearing people complain about building of a resort in Boone. Why on earth do a group of college students think they have the right to tell a person/cooperation what to do with their property. Where so these protests come from? The Marxist virus that infects so many Universities in America? Some paganistic notion that everyone owns the earth. I have the feeling if I wanted to stop one these protesters from building on their property they’d politely tell me to go copulate with myself.

Modern society is based on the premise that a person can do whatever he wants to with his own property within reasonable limits. None of the protesters arguments qualify as reasonable. It’s not like the resort is poisoning the water supply. Movements like this only contribute to the dangerous infraction on private property rights in America, which are already in mortal danger thanks to recent the Supreme Court decision in Kelo V New London. Since our private property rights are already on the chopping block it is imperative that we respect each others property rights.

Another area of argument that protesters decry is that people will be forced off their lands when the resort raises property values. I by no means am an economic expert but last time I checked you gain money if your property value increases. Perhaps there’s some kind of tax consequence I’m not foreseeing but regardless, even if the resort does force people to move, it doesn’t change the fact that private industries have the right to do what they want with their land.

Instead of protesting, how about the “friends of the blue ridge mountains” raise some money, and buy the property themselves then give it to the people who supposedly had to move to Tennessee because of the evil rich building their resort. However reasonable solutions like this probably get in the way of a good leftist rant about the rich getting richer off the backs of the poor.

Perhaps the most ridiculous argument I’ve heard so far against the resort is that the jobs they are creating are “minimum skill and minimum wage” meaning they “will not be beneficial”. I fail to see how creating more jobs could be anything but beneficial. What on earth is bad about lowering the unemployment level? Any job is better than no job, it’s better to have some income rather than rely on government handouts, or having to beg for money. So I ask these protesters , out of respect for property rights and the welfare of Boone, please cease and desist.