# Mayor of Ft. Lauderdale: Can't buy a house? Just work more! **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [May 21, 2006, 5:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mayor-of-ft-lauderdale-cant-buy-a-house-just-work-more/357609 "2006-05-21T05:00:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2006, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mayor-of-ft-lauderdale-cant-buy-a-house-just-work-more/357609/101 "2006-05-31T02:57:28Z")
ooookaaayyy… that last one was _fascinating_… Though it’s true that Broward and Palm Beach counties are really a hodgepodge of incorporated micro-municipalities, it is also true that they do tend to become radically divergent in socioec levels, and it may or may not be a good idea to have a polity where the main body of public servants are viewed by the Mayor with scorn as low-rent schlubs – or polities made up entirely of low-rent schlubs. BTW, the railroad was there first. Suck it up. Or, move to both live and work East of the railroad. If you can afford it… ---
**Author:** ![Evil\_Captor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f17d59/32.png) [@Evil\_Captor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Captor)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2006, 10:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mayor-of-ft-lauderdale-cant-buy-a-house-just-work-more/357609/102 "2006-05-31T10:06:35Z")
[QUOTE=want2know] As fascinating as this whole debate on the free market and economic realities is (with good points being made on both sides of the issue), I think we’ve deviated from the whole point of the OP. It is the utterly contemptuous tone this so-called “mayor” is taking with the people of his city who do the actual work to keep his precious municipality functioning! Working a 40-hr week isn’t enough to entitle you to decent housing? Gee, I guess all those labor laws we passed in the early 20th century were just some commie welfare plot, huh? [/quote] Well, t he free market solution here is that entrepreneurial developers will see that there’s a market for low-cost housing in your area and will build plenty of reasonably priced homes that you can buy. Because that’s how the free market always works right? (This is my whole problem with free market economics – they work best for rich people, and frequently they don’t work at all for middle income and poor people. > [@](#): > > I have a question for Mayor Naugle–How many hours a week do _you_ actually fucking work? The free market doesn’t value work, only wealth. > [@](#): > > I ask you, what good is a free market if it disenfranchises the most necessary workers? Who’s going to provide the vital services that any well-run municipality requires? Well, the free market theory is an excellent tool for providing a seemingly objective rationale for making the rich richer and the middle class and the poor … you know the drill. > [@](#): > > Not everyone can be rich. It is economically unfeasible. Someone has to do the actual work. Someone has to be middle class. Doesn’t the working class deserve a little consideration from our precious “free market”? They certainly don’t deserve to be insulted and belittled by someone like Naugle! I believe the free market response is, “Let them eat trickle-down!” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mayor-of-ft-lauderdale-cant-buy-a-house-just-work-more/357609.md?page=5)