Re: “,” Dec. business news story.
Aldo Svaldi’s excellent article in last Sunday’s business section generates a special resonance with me. I’m a fourth-generation native Coloradan and someone who has taken a philosophic view about my life here. I was blessed to grow up here in the 1950s and ’60s. Even then my grandfather, who felt the place was getting too crowded, was reluctant to drive into the mountains from Denver to hunt or fish on weekends. My father bolted to Montana in the 1960s, as did an uncle and several friends. It sounds crazy looking at things through today’s lens, doesn’t it?
My proposed solution to this problem sounds straightforward but will never happen and will anger many. But it would work. If you live here but don’t have a verifiable Colorado birth certificate, then you are invited to leave post haste. This will obviously impose hardships on families, including my own (my wife was born in Iowa). But if those of us who were born here set a desired population — say, the population in 1950, somewhere around 1.3 million — we could figure out whether more than one generation would take care of things, and if not, we simply add generations until we reach our goal. I don’t think we’d get anywhere near four generations.
DzDz, Denver
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