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'Sustainable' Poverty: The Real Face of the Leftist Environmental Agenda
Pajamas Media ^ | Aug 25, 2010 | John Griffing

Posted on 08/25/2010 1:44:25 AM PDT by Rashputin

Paying homage to a long legacy of radical environmentalism, President Obama's faithful followers have advanced the Livable Communities Act to attack nonexistent problems like sprawl and overpopulation, as well as sub-issues like pollution. Humans will be punished for seeking to improve their quality of life, with new limits on mobility and Orwellian guidelines dictating where citizens will be allowed to live and work, with the justification of ushering in "sustainable growth." The facts do not matter to Obama and the left. The fact that urban sprawl is a nonexistent problem, that "smart growth" fails where tried, and that the Constitution does not permit government to dictate where and how citizens will live is irrelevant.

The current practices of federal agencies provide a few clues. Although the only body authorized under the Constitution to buy or sell land for government purposes is Congress, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and other federal agencies like the Forest Service have for several decades deprived private property owners of their land (and cattle) at below market prices. The land is then leased back to its owners for a yearly fee. Land that predates the BLM is simply confiscated by way of litigation [i].

(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government
KEYWORDS: environmentalism; propertyrights
The elimination of property rights plods along below the radar of most people while they focus on the economy and Islam. The fact is, the leftists are advancing on many fronts and need to be not only eliminated from elected offices, but purged from the agencies and appointed offices they've nested in for years. It's time for a clean sweep of the government, not just a clean sweep of elected offices and those we elect had better be up to the task since we won't get another chance.
1 posted on 08/25/2010 1:44:30 AM PDT by Rashputin
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To: Rashputin

I wrongly attributed this to Pajamas Media in the heading but the link to American Thinker is correct.


2 posted on 08/25/2010 2:11:25 AM PDT by Rashputin (Obama is already insane and sequestered on golf courses or vacations so you won't know it)
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To: Rashputin

“the Constitution does not permit government to dictate where and how citizens will live is irrelevant.”

FDR tried it and like everything else he did it failed miserably.


3 posted on 08/25/2010 2:40:38 AM PDT by vanilla swirl (We are the Patrick Henry we have been waiting for!)
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To: Rashputin

UN Agenda 21!


4 posted on 08/25/2010 3:26:05 AM PDT by broken_arrow1 (I regret that I have but one life to give for my country - Nathan Hale "Patriot")
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To: broken_arrow1

Sir you are correct.

http://hotair.com/archives/2010/08/24/obama-war-on-fisheries-jobs-gets-vacation-protest/

vob


5 posted on 08/25/2010 4:29:31 AM PDT by Vob (free radical community organizer)
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To: Rashputin

“It’s time for a clean sweep of the government, not just a clean sweep of elected offices and those we elect had better be up to the task since we won’t get another chance.”

All the federal resource agencies are populated by fascist thugs. They’re engaged in illegal but typical fascist tactics - stealing private property and passing illegal bureaucratic decrees to stop owners from using their property as they see fit. Few people are aware of the theft and illegal federal actions going on in rural America. It’s my belief that the shooting war will start in rural America.

Read Rapanos v US for a taste of the federal thug’s tactics. Everyone at the EPA who participated in this travesty should have been hanged for sedition. And congress refused to even hold hearings, let alone fire these neo-Nazi thugs. Quite simply, congress is allowing these goosesteppers to harass Americans and steal their property.

As you said, Rashputin, there’s a lot of cleaning up that needs to be done.


6 posted on 08/25/2010 5:40:31 AM PDT by sergeantdave
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