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# Santa Monica There’s plenty of land in Kansas
- URL: https://www.smdp.com/santa-monica-theres-plenty-of-land-in-kansas-editor/
- Published: 2007-05-30T15:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-24T00:53:25.000Z
- Author: Guest Author
- Tags: Opinion, Santa Monica, #archive-import

*By David A. McKellar Santa Monica*

What is so infuriating about (Joel) Koury and other, perhaps well-intentioned, but misguided people of his ilk, is their steadfast refusal to acknowledge America’s great capitalist, free market-oriented lassez-faire system of government which has made this country the world’s only superpower.

Where is it written, I ask, that anyone of a certain socioeconomic stratum should, by government dictum, live in a particular locale? An examination of our country’s history will reveal that it isn’t “written” at all!

In our form of politico economic structure, one gets to live almost exclusively as a determinant of where their means enable them to live. Thus, we don’t see people of moderate means or low income living in Bel Air. As to the argument that there is no housing available for moderate income people, that is a complete canard. A plane trip to New York from L A will reveal thousands and thousands of miles of available space.

No, this present argument about moderate income housing is just the latest installment in an almost-30-year ideological battle in this town between the forces of common sense and tradition and those who will wield government power in unnatural ways to continue their stranglehold on power.

*Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on May 30, 2007.* [Read the original PDF.](https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/smdp%5Fbackissues/053007.pdf?ref=smdp.com)