Burn Down the Suburbs?

National Review Online ^ | August 1, 2012 | Stanley Kurtz

[DuncanWaring]

I was just about to “ping” you to that post ... turns out it’s not necessary.

[DuncanWaring]

From the file name, looks like Pruitt.

[Carry_Okie]

The only GOP candidate who promised to revoke US participation in or any support for Agenda 21 was Gingrich.

Which is not to say that he would have ended Federal support for all of its tenets, which, from what I know of Newtie's record on environmental issues, is unlikely.

[Carry_Okie]

Post 43, by me, is in error.

My apologies to the forum.

[livius]

I think so. He actually revised his view on a lot of the so-called environmental issues after he seriously started running for president and examined the issues.

Anybody know what Romney (who is a statist at heart) thinks about Agenda 21?

[Noumenon]

Over their dead bodies.

That's a better idea.

[livius]

I actually love cities, I don’t think there’s anything wrong with apartment living, and I wouldn’t want to live in a suburb. But that’s my personal choice, and I don’t know why it enrages Obama so that some people prefer suburban living.

The problem with these apartment buildings near you is not necessarily that they’re apartments but that they are being pushed on the neighborhood by the government and the government is picking their tenants. The government has destroyed many city neighborhoods by doing exactly this same thing.

Of course, the government officials in question, ranging from Obama to judge Leonard Sands of New York, don’t live in either suburbs or cities: they live in mansions and gated communities, like Party leaders in any Marxist country.

[bassmaner]

That needs to be shouted:

In a speech December 1929 Stalin said: “We have passed from a policy of confining the exploiting tendencies of the Kulaks to a policy of liquidation of the Kulaks as a class”

*We* are the Kulaks. 0bama is Stalin.

[stevie_d_64]

Bingo!!!

[Vigilanteman]

Go into any of the major cities in first world Asia (Tokyo, Osaka, Singapore or even Taipei or Seoul) and the city centers are some of the most attractive places there are. One thing they all have in common is very low tolerance for crime. Further, political corruption, while it undeniably exists, it absolutely pales in comparison to even a somewhat respectable mid-sized city in the United States (Pittsburgh, for example).

[familyop]

"The centerpiece of the Obama administration’s anti-suburban plans is a little-known and seemingly modest program called the Sustainable Communities Initiative."

That's already implemented in some of the most remote and unpopulated counties in the country. It's supported by state and local government employees and their NIMBY, pensioner friends of both political parties in the names of "property values," "open space," etc--even in counties that have vast majorities of Republicans.

IMO, nearly all who receive incomes that allow enough money and time to engage in politics are dishonest, hardened socialists. We lack manufacturing production (especially new small shops outlawed under zoning regs.) and real private sector representation (excludes services with mostly government employees and pensioners as customers). Have fun. Enjoy the slide.

[JewishRighter]

“One approach is to force suburban residents into densely packed cities..”

As the son of a Warsaw Ghetto survivor, the idea of packing people into cities should be a great danger sign. No, I’m not saying that they’re planning to send everyone to the gas chambers, just that this level of central planning of people’s lives has a tyrannical notion of absolute power to control people, to herd them wherever you want...

[BobL]

“UN Agenda 21”

I guess we can say that until we’re blue in the face. I work with a guy that always goes there.

Guess what. People yawn and try to figure out if they have a meeting in 5 minutes. IT MEANS NOTHING - except to some Ron Paul people in the know. In other words, no one, at all, gets persuaded, at all.

[RJL]

The community organizers who trained him in the mid-1980s blamed the plight of cities on taxpayer “flight” to suburbia.

The totalitarian left hates it when the people are free to escape their crazy ideas, policies, ordinances and laws.

[oyez]

Too many people concentrated in a small area with a load of restrictions, I don’t care who lives there, they arn’t going to be happy for long.

[<1/1,000,000th%]

Clinton moved a lot of gang members out of the city through HUD programs. Maybe he was in on it.

[Nowhere Man]

Drone overflights, declaring things like dust and milk as EPA-regulated ‘pollutants,’ control and cutoff of water...

Yeah, those drones really drive the bejeebers out of me. Unless I had a WWII "ack-ack gun" and a Sherman Jumbo in the back yard, I'd be real paranoid. B-P

[ApplegateRanch]

How about burning Washington instead?

Be sure to build a wall around it first, so they can't escape.

The British didn't, and it may have cost them the war. Learn from their mistake, so history doesn't repeat itself. ;-')

[raybbr]

This is where the soccer moms will be a force for good, they will revolt against this idea.

Really? The very same people who have left over Obama bumper stickers on their cars/vans from 2008?