Trying to heat and light an uninsulated garage March party?
With 25 teenagers in a 500 sf garage, they're going to be pretty warm just from body heat once the party gets going, and I wouldn't use a propane heater in that small a space with that many kids milling around in it, except to heat it up before they get there. Too easy for someone to fall into the hot heater. It would be difficult to run enough extension cord to power an electric heater of any kind, and I can tell you from experience that an electric heater won't make much of a dent in an uninsulated building in 20 degree weather. I'd use a propane heater for a few hours before anyone arrives, and remove it after about 10 people arrive. If you can legally and safely do it, I like the idea of a burn barrel outside the garage. Anyone who feels cold can stand near that for a while. If you use LED lights, you can run an awful lot of them on a regular extension cord. I have strings of LED Christmas lights that use only 4 watts, so you could run 25 strings of them and still only use as much power as one normal 100 watt light bulb. If you want a nightclub look, get ones with tiny bulbs and I'd think 6 strings minimum but much depends on how you arrange them and what colour they are. If you can get them up in the rafters that could look very cool, like a starry night sky.
What was it like growing up in Metro Detroit?
I grew up in the Madison Heights area... What do you think of when you hear the phrase "suburban hell"? : ) Hmm... Many malls, grocery stores, and other stores to choose from, meeting up with friends at the park, riding bikes across town, playing outside all day (be home when the street lights come on, or you're grounded), eating out on Friday night (home cooked meals the rest of the week), playing on community and school sports teams (or going to cheer on siblings), weeding around the chainlink fence/raking/shoveling/mowing the lawn, BBQs unless there's snow on the ground, Clawson 4th of July fireworks (best fireworks display in metro Detroit), washing Dad's car with a bucket/hose/sponge (and getting into water fights at the same time), walking home from school every day (rarely picked up), going to HS games, babysitting neighborhood kids for barely any money ("neighbors help each other out"), swimming classes at the school's pool, sleepovers with friends, playing in the sprinkler on hot days, etc. We went on trips to all the local venues (Detroit Zoo, Belle Isle Zoo, State Fair, Davisburg Fair, Henry Ford Museum/Greenfield Village, Domino's Farms, Cranbrook Art Museum/Science Center/Grounds, DIA, Auto Show, Detroit Science Center, etc), to all the surrounding area (MIS, Frankenmuth, Birch Run, The Thumb, Mudhen's games down in Ohio, Cedar Point, etc), and to any strawberry patch, apple orchard or cider mill you can think of (Big Red, Blake's, Franklin, Yates, Dexter, Plymouth, Rochester, Paint Creek, etc)... I'm not complaining in the least. I had a very safe and happy childhood.
Why are liberal-led places like Detroit, Chicago, and California going bankrupt?
Please don’t confuse the economy of California with the fiscal health of its state and local governments. They are not the same by a long shot.Nor should being the 5th or 6th largest economy lead to the assumption the state government is equally healthy. I lived in CA from my college graduation in 1969 until 2017 when I gave up and moved away. A few observations: First, what goes up must come down. I lived through a number of recessions and CA falls faster and further than other states because it always climbs higher during the up cycles. The dot com/Y2K boom resulted in a horribly long recovery in CA. Second, the state seems to set its spending based on the peak tax revenue which, of course, is not sustainable when the downturn arrives. It is then CA faces a fiscal crisis. I can remember 2001 when the state revenue set a record and spending was increased to match—even though the businesses and individuals who generated those revenues in 2000 were already seeing sales fall and were laying off staff and cutting costs like crazy. Third, California’s infrastructure is in terrible shape. Estimates for deferred highway maintenance are obscene. From Gov Brown’s own 2017 budget, the deferred infrastructure estimate is $78 billion. The recent projection of a one year surplus by June 30, 2019 of $6 billion is just a drop in the bucket—-if it comes true. http://www.ebudget.ca.gov/2017-I... Fourth, CA has a huge unfunded pension liability. And it continues to get worse. California’s public pension crisis in a nutshell. Fifth, the water system was designed for a population of about 20 million, not the near 40 million in the state today. Bottom line, the State of California is headed for a financial crisis across the board. Believing it isn’t an issue is naive.
Why did capitalism's heydey fail to leave a healthy Detroit?
Because in America we practice vulture capitalism, where you exploit an area for maximum resources over the shortest period of time, and don't worry about the fallout because the companies have no legal culpability for devastated lands.
How have Democrat policies in Chicago and Detroit helped black people?
This has to be a joke question, right? Look at Detroit 50 years ago, and look at it after endless decades of Democrat rule.Now look at another big city, not run without interruption by Democrats, and one that wasn’t that great for black people in 1970. Say, Atlanta. Or Houston.The contrast is stark.
Why do republicans blame Detroit's bankruptcy on liberals?
What about the corporations that are there? What about the republican governors? Racism from conservatives lead to white flight and took the tax base to the suburbs. Only now do we realize how important it is to end urban sprawl.
What are some examples of Liberal paradise cities? Detriot, Chicago, Oakland, San Francisco, Minneapolis, Boston, Seattle?
I live in Boston and I think it is the best place on earth to live. The rest of the country whines about Obamacare. We have MassHealth that it was based on and it does just fine here. Everybody can go to the doctor if they need to and guess what! Massachusetts is not broke. The rest of the country whines that raising the minimum wage would bankrupt all the businesses...we have the highest minimum wage in the country and our economy is doing great. There are plenty of jobs, people care about other people. Wealth is not worshipped. When bastards bombed our city, the people stuck together and in just a couple days, the remaining one was jailed. Nobody is running the streets with guns and nobody is bashing anybody else because of who they love. It is a beautiful liberal city and we do just fine here. Our education system is also the best.