Posted on 09/13/2009 12:07:08 AM PDT by PghBaldy
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...
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.
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
I recall watching a National Geographic special about some tribe in the Amazon, when their “village” became infested with bugs and the soil played out , they simply burned the old one and moved a few clicks into the New Village. After a couple hundred years the old site will ready for recolinization.
No tax dollars were used in the process.
“Most of us were a tad busy being good Americans, who didn’t want hand outs, who didn’t want welfare, and who dang well don’t want to go on medicare, but we have to.”
Absolutely, but while you were focused on the job and family the hippies were taking over the nation. Its not only your generations fault though. Not many others have done much for fear of being branded as some kind of bad person by the liberal power brokers.
This problem has been growing for years. Perhaps yesterday will wake enough people up from their complacency. I don’t think it will.
What is wrong with C-4 instead?
Great website. So sad.
Excellent post, and you are so right.
“Those of us old enough to remember the Carter Years...”
I think that is key to your post. I’ve been warning young ones about the coming Carter on steroids years, but they don’t get it. You and I lived through it, but even though that is so, many won’t believe what we’ve said about it.
“We may have taught OUR children, but who was teaching everyone else’s??”
That has gobsmacked me...I can’t understand why other parents haven’t taught their children these lessons.
However, why is that OUR fault?
I suspect there are young ones here who have no idea what they are in for.
Well...from your lofty place...what are YOU going to do about it?
BTW, it’s been growing for over 100 years.
“Well...from your lofty place...what are YOU going to do about it?”
I’m gonna complain to my elders and wait for them to take care of me. After all that is what they taught me to do.
“BTW, it’s been growing for over 100 years.”
The progressive movement can be traced back that far. It wasn’t really a power until the last 50 years though.
Nonsense. Hillary! was clearly the lesser of two evils. So many people hate her that she would never had the presidential "honeymoon". Do not forget the campaign promise in 1996 that we would get to see the "real Algore and Hillary!" during a 2nd Clinton term. It vanished into the memory hole with all the Clinton scandals, but so also did much of his "mandate".
Rush knew exactly what he was doing with his Operation Chaos. It was a win-win situation.
A President Hillary! would be facing the same kind of opposition that is occurring now, except that it would be from people much more hardened in their opposition to her personally and she wouldn't have nearly as strong of a political base as this current administration appears to have.
How about we just tell them they don’t ever need to go to D.C.
Just submit your votes electronically.
“Term limits are unconstitutional.”
Not really, there’s nothing in the Constitution which prohibits term limits. The Constitution was changed to keep the President to two terms after FDR wasn’t it.
IMO the root of the problem is federal control. If you can keep the power at the local/state level the politicians can be held accountable.
“Rush knew exactly what he was doing with his Operation Chaos. It was a win-win situation.”
How is this a win-win? Hillary would have been far better than BO. And that is a scary scary situation.
“In many ways, that is OUR FAULT. We may have taught OUR children, but who was teaching everyone else’s??”
The hippies
The progressive movement can be traced back that far. It wasn’t really a power until the last 50 years though.
You're both right, though I would date the "progressive movement" back to FDR. The last innocent[1] President we had was President Taft. His successor, reelected on the basis of "He Kept Us Out Of War!!!", gave us World War I, the Federal Reserve and the IRS. The only president who tried to reverse any of that was President Kennedy, who was assassinated a few months after attempting to restore silver notes by executive order. A close second was President Reagan and he suffered a nearly successful assassination attempt as well.
[1] Innocent meaning - not trying to expand the power of the Federal Government.
At the state level no - 10th amendment. At the federal level yes. It's not an enumerated power.
Would you explain what you mean when you say that Hillary would have been far better than BO. How is this current healthcare plan worse than what she attempted to force upon US when she was co-president.
I do not see a dimes worth of difference in the politics of Hillary versus BamaKennedy. Both are ruthless and both believe they are owed, and both think they can do anything better than anyone else. And both were trained Alinskmites.
Yes, as I pointed out. There were two possible outcomes for Operation Chaos - Hillary! wins (and she cannot be an effective President because of all the people who hate her), or Obama is weakened.
If the Republican ticket had been reversed, Palin/McCain, we would all have had an easier time saying "that Vice Presidential Candidate really sucks Governor Palin, but we'll vote for you anyway." than vice versa.
The US is desperate for change. We want another President Reagan. Someone to get out of our way and just let us continue being an economic superpower.
“Would you explain what you mean when you say that Hillary would have been far better than BO”
Because Hillary had polarized the nation already. BO’s been able to convince plenty of people that he is the One. BO is also far to the left of Hillary.
I think Rush made a mistake with his Stop Hillary Express. His mistake was underestimating how incompetent McCain would be running his campaign.
Installing term limits at a state level probably wouldn’t work. It would reduce the power of the states that passed it. Thereby increasing the power of the states least likely to pass such a law.
“If the Republican ticket had been reversed, .”
That would have been great. The main reason I like Palin is because she’s not part of the GOP establishment that only endorses RINOs.
I still wonder how she was selected as the VP candidate. Thats about the only good decision McCain made during the campaign.
I tried to explain that. Hillary! is a polarizing figure and many, many people hate her. There is very little middle ground with her. She wouldn't have had much if any presidential "honeymoon" and she would definitely have done much less damage than BS has done so far due to all the hardened opposition. Gridlock Is Good.
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