Building on a Mountain Top

Something apparently overlooked in complaints about conspicuous consumption (elaborate dinner parties or mountain-top, multimillion-dollar houses) is the fact that this kind of spending creates a lot of employment; not just the labor but the ripple effect by purchase of supplies and furnishings. To say nothing of the taxes that will be paid.

Aren’t we urged by our government to spend and bolster the ailing economy?

VELMA G. DRISKELL

San Gabriel