Comments on: Raising the Roof http://www.good.is/post/raising-the-roof/ GOOD Sat, 21 Nov 2009 22:48:03 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: bettyt http://www.good.is/post/raising-the-roof/comment-page-1/#comment-6935 bettyt Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.good.is/raising_the_roof#comment-6935 "...EMHE feels curiously closer to Cinderella than to, say, Horatio Alger..."<br><br /> <br><br /> By this I guess you mean that while Horatio Alger counseled young men to work hard to achieve the American dream, Cinderella's more feminine approach was to simply wait around for a fairy godmother to save her? Cinderella was enslaved, dudes, and she worked her butt off. The prince was a reward for hard work and a good attitude. But perhaps you consider housekeeping to be women's work and therefore not real work? Sorry to get so annoyed about something that's not the central point of your article, but, *dang.* “…EMHE feels curiously closer to Cinderella than to, say, Horatio Alger…”

By this I guess you mean that while Horatio Alger counseled young men to work hard to achieve the American dream, Cinderella’s more feminine approach was to simply wait around for a fairy godmother to save her? Cinderella was enslaved, dudes, and she worked her butt off. The prince was a reward for hard work and a good attitude. But perhaps you consider housekeeping to be women’s work and therefore not real work? Sorry to get so annoyed about something that’s not the central point of your article, but, *dang.*

]]> By: hoythawk http://www.good.is/post/raising-the-roof/comment-page-1/#comment-6981 hoythawk Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.good.is/raising_the_roof#comment-6981 What I wonder after these mini-mansions are built is what really happens to them when the cameras are pack up and everyone leaves. What type of financial problems are handed over to the owner when this house is built? Can they really afford it? Furthermore I presume that if you're living in a 900 sq. ft. house you don't have very much money to upgrade. Why wouldn't the person just turn around sell the house make a lot of money and live in a 2000 sq ft. house. You have to ask the question are their house proposals really addressing the real problem of American poverty and lack of education to understand basic survival techniques to raise a family of 8 plus three others? If this show's demographic was in the middle of Africa do you think think they would build 4000 sq ft mansions with flat screen TVs and other non-essentials? Probably not. They would build something adequately comfortable and sustainable. Why can't this producer see they what they are building is falsity of the American dream? They need to curb their idealistic ventures and build something smart and affordable. What I wonder after these mini-mansions are built is what really happens to them when the cameras are pack up and everyone leaves. What type of financial problems are handed over to the owner when this house is built? Can they really afford it? Furthermore I presume that if you’re living in a 900 sq. ft. house you don’t have very much money to upgrade. Why wouldn’t the person just turn around sell the house make a lot of money and live in a 2000 sq ft. house. You have to ask the question are their house proposals really addressing the real problem of American poverty and lack of education to understand basic survival techniques to raise a family of 8 plus three others? If this show’s demographic was in the middle of Africa do you think think they would build 4000 sq ft mansions with flat screen TVs and other non-essentials? Probably not. They would build something adequately comfortable and sustainable. Why can’t this producer see they what they are building is falsity of the American dream? They need to curb their idealistic ventures and build something smart and affordable.

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