MacinFL

So sorry about my angry tone, but this is simply infuriating. This is just another ridiculous money making scheme being perpetrated by the nanny state. Working people who dream of building their own homes and establishing a real connection to the land are being priced out of existence by the McMansion crowd. The hypocrites who drive Escalades or Range Rovers, sip Lattes and watch too much widescreen TV undoubtedly support this. What's another $4.00 a square foot to someone who paid $200 a square foot for a 3500 square foot, 5 bedroom home in the burbs, and doesn't even know or care where the money went? On the other hand, to someone planning a $50.00 a square foot, 900 square foot home on 10 acres in the country, to be built with sweat equity, using recycled, scavenged, and natural materials- this is a serious infringement. I guess I'll have to put off the solar panels for a while.

To those who cite "safety" as the issue- I wonder if Thomas Jefferson, George Washington, John Adams and Abraham Lincoln knew the horrible danger they were in because they didn't have sprinkler systems. What's next? Halon systems? Mandatory security alarms? Mandatory nuclear bomb shelters? Air filtration systems to protect us from possible gas or biological attacks? Should we install rubber roofs to prevent meteors crashing into our living rooms? Hmmm... the same whiny people who are always screaming about handguns and crying about the taxes they never pay are strangely mute on this issue... perhaps because they're the same ones living in the McMansions?

As Franklin once said, "Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety."