"communities" = "commune-ities" = "communism"
Congratulations, America, on your "historic" election.
Posted on 06/13/2009 8:27:37 AM PDT by reaganaut1
We may also guess that he thinks concrete blocks are used to build walls.
At least half of it needs to get taken up by the armory, gun lathe, milling machine, and loading bench.
Mass transit needs to be epanded....uh, how about a swift train from NYC to, oh, say Witchita kansas? Or how about Cleveland , Ohio to Alaska? those routes should constantly be overused....very similar in comparison to say, oh, Munich to Stuttgart? Yes, we need to listen to Europe....they REALLY know about what is good for America!
My cousin sent me his FIRST vacation plans for this fall when he comes to visit....a 10 TEN DAY VISIT.( touring by car)...
“Start in Jacksonville, FL then drive to the FL,Keys, then back thru Miami, then off to Orlando, then down to St Pete and Tampa. ....then up to Pensacola and back to Jax and up to Washington, DC. and over to Philly, and come down thru Atlanta back to Jax.”
HUH? I called him the next day and suggested he look closer at a map. HA! He called back and we both had a good laugh.
Rich people refer to that as “the mud room” ~ little do they imagine what the real purposes of the various sectors of the home might be.
Hmmmmm.
Will they force me to sell a couple or just steal them from me?
There is a deeper, but obvious agenda.
1) - Control the flow of information. (Close to being achieved as we speak.)
2) - Disarm the American public, taking away any effective firearms (and even knives) that could be used during insurrection.
3) - Limit mobility, eliminating any vehicle that could be used in a para or quasi military fashion i.e. large hauling capacity and/or off road capability. They further (through trade-in incentives) want older vehicles that do not have GPS locators or RFID tags on their parts, out of circulation.
These goals, once achieved, facilitate the “justification” for a large civilian security force, enable the herding of the sheeple into controlled areas and make the possibility of insurrection almost non-existent.
They are not stupid, they only want us to think they are. There is a plan and from their perverse point of view, it’s a good one.
Resistance is not an option - it’s a duty.
As always with the LibTards...it’s all about control.
For the past 8 months I have been tele-commuting and like it.
Traveled for a living for over 30 years. Outside sales and management. Don’t miss the miles but do miss the action and the people.
There is nothing wrong with not having to travel. But there is a BIG problem with being Compelled to do this stuff.
Compulsion is not accepted well in Texas.
Leave us alone to live our lives in peace and we will get along fine, if that is not satisfactory, we will deal with it.
From what I know of WV there are pockets that are like most of Texas as far as that attitude goes.
Reporting for Duty.
ping to post #46
"communities" = "commune-ities" = "communism"
Congratulations, America, on your "historic" election.
You are not far off in saying what ‘they’ want for the masses...
READ THIS...ESPECIALLY THE LAST PARAGRAPH
US CITIES MAY BE BULLDOZED
Dozens of US cities may have entire neighbourhoods bulldozed as part of drastic “shrink to survive” proposals being considered by the Obama administration to tackle economic decline.
By Tom Leonard in Flint, Michigan
The US government is looking at expanding a pioneering scheme in Flint, one of the poorest US cities, which involves razing entire districts and returning the land to nature Photo: GETTY
The government looking at expanding a pioneering scheme in Flint, one of the poorest US cities, which involves razing entire districts and returning the land to nature.
Local politicians believe the city must contract by as much as 40 per cent, concentrating the dwindling population and local services into a more viable area.
The radical experiment is the brainchild of Dan Kildee, treasurer of Genesee County, which includes Flint.
Having outlined his strategy to Barack Obama during the election campaign, Mr Kildee has now been approached by the US government and a group of charities who want him to apply what he has learnt to the rest of the country.
Mr Kildee said he will concentrate on 50 cities, identified in a recent study by the Brookings Institution, an influential Washington think-tank, as potentially needing to shrink substantially to cope with their declining fortunes.
Most are former industrial cities in the “rust belt” of America’s Mid-West and North East. They include Detroit, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Baltimore and Memphis.
In Detroit, shattered by the woes of the US car industry, there are already plans to split it into a collection of small urban centres separated from each other by countryside.
“The real question is not whether these cities shrink – we’re all shrinking – but whether we let it happen in a destructive or sustainable way,” said Mr Kildee. “Decline is a fact of life in Flint. Resisting it is like resisting gravity.”
Karina Pallagst, director of the Shrinking Cities in a Global Perspective programme at the University of California, Berkeley, said there was “both a cultural and political taboo” about admitting decline in America.
“Places like Flint have hit rock bottom. They’re at the point where it’s better to start knocking a lot of buildings down,” she said.
Flint, sixty miles north of Detroit, was the original home of General Motors. The car giant once employed 79,000 local people but that figure has shrunk to around 8,000.
Unemployment is now approaching 20 per cent and the total population has almost halved to 110,000.
The exodus – particularly of young people – coupled with the consequent collapse in property prices, has left street after street in sections of the city almost entirely abandoned.
In the city centre, the once grand Durant Hotel – named after William Durant, GM’s founder – is a symbol of the city’s decline, said Mr Kildee. The large building has been empty since 1973, roughly when Flint’s decline began.
Regarded as a model city in the motor industry’s boom years, Flint may once again be emulated, though for very different reasons.
But Mr Kildee, who has lived there nearly all his life, said he had first to overcome a deeply ingrained American cultural mindset that “big is good” and that cities should sprawl – Flint covers 34 square miles.
He said: “The obsession with growth is sadly a very American thing. Across the US, there’s an assumption that all development is good, that if communities are growing they are successful. If they’re shrinking, they’re failing.”
But some Flint dustcarts are collecting just one rubbish bag a week, roads are decaying, police are very understaffed and there were simply too few people to pay for services, he said.
If the city didn’t downsize it will eventually go bankrupt, he added.
Flint’s recovery efforts have been helped by a new state law passed a few years ago which allowed local governments to buy up empty properties very cheaply.
They could then knock them down or sell them on to owners who will occupy them. The city wants to specialise in health and education services, both areas which cannot easily be relocated abroad.
The local authority has restored the city’s attractive but formerly deserted centre but has pulled down 1,100 abandoned homes in outlying areas.
Mr Kildee estimated another 3,000 needed to be demolished, although the city boundaries will remain the same.
Already, some streets peter out into woods or meadows, no trace remaining of the homes that once stood there.
Choosing which areas to knock down will be delicate but many of them were already obvious, he said.
The city is buying up houses in more affluent areas to offer people in neighbourhoods it wants to demolish. Nobody will be forced to move, said Mr Kildee.
“Much of the land will be given back to nature. People will enjoy living near a forest or meadow,” he said.
Otherwise known as "communes".
It’s none of his damn business how many cars I own.
BTW, when two rarents have to work to have a little left over after paying taxes, they are going to need two cars to get there.
I am just so tired of this “I saw a three car garage being built, so now we have to outlaw them” attitude. It’s none of their damn business!!!
Bulldoze cities so that we "will enjoy living near a forest or meadow?"
This psychopath is serious too. That the Obamao admin would have him as an advisor is telling.
Wasn’t it the Borough of Queens that pioneered this ~
LOL! I happened to listen to Rush a couple of weeks ago, about the time that GM was becoming Government Motors. He reminded folks what he’d been saying for years about how Democrats, along with the enviro-wacko supporters were demonizing SUVs and wanted to somehow force folks to buy smaller cars. He laughed and said folks made fun of him when he said it all those years ago, but it’s coming to pass, isn’t it?
He thinks he is king.
But he is not even a Burger King.
The dream of many arch-leftists is to herd Americans not laready living in them into huge megalapolises...the better to control them. Whenever I read an article where some of the words mentioned are “sprawl” and “sustainability”, I know I’m reading words of statists and/or Marxists. These people hate the idea of people outside their power to control directly. To them the car represents freedom that they must destroy. Get ready folks.... these people are planning your wonderful rabbit hutches.
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