Where do you even start with this? The clause “to protect the housing market” is outrageous enough, but throw in “un-American” and you’ve upped the ante considerably. I’ve always hoped that “American” was somewhat akin to “salvation”: a continual process, worked at with fear and trembling. Mine is not the popular view, apparently.
That expression un-American is loaded, innit? I don’t know that the quotee means so much by it — I suppose he just wants to say turning right around & unconstructing buildings goes against normal expectations, against what U.S. development/real estate culture knows how to deal with — but you can’t help thinking he’s said more than he intended.
As to your suggestion about ‘American’ & ‘process’: I’m reflecting.
More on that unwieldy problem, the U.S. housing market, from CNN.
Where do you even start with this? The clause “to protect the housing market” is outrageous enough, but throw in “un-American” and you’ve upped the ante considerably. I’ve always hoped that “American” was somewhat akin to “salvation”: a continual process, worked at with fear and trembling. Mine is not the popular view, apparently.
That expression un-American is loaded, innit? I don’t know that the quotee means so much by it — I suppose he just wants to say turning right around & unconstructing buildings goes against normal expectations, against what U.S. development/real estate culture knows how to deal with — but you can’t help thinking he’s said more than he intended.
As to your suggestion about ‘American’ & ‘process’: I’m reflecting.
More on that unwieldy problem, the U.S. housing market, from CNN.