Posted on 12/28/2019 5:44:15 AM PST by EyesOfTX
Seriously, how much WINNING can one nation take? – Believe it or not, the NASDAQ did not close at a new record high on Friday, falling slightly to break an 11-trading day winning streak. But the S&P 500 and Dow Jones Industrials did manage new record closings, making Friday yet another banner day for investors. The WINNING truly never grows old.
The Enviro-Marxists are now coming for your homes. – As we come to the end of 2019, it is only appropriate that the radical leftist climate change lobby signals its clear intent to deprive you of yet another basic human liberty: The right to own your own home.
After all, 2019 was the year in which the insane Green New Deal introduced by the insane Alexandria Ocasio Cortez proposed to deny you the right to travel by air, own your own automobile, enjoy affordable power and home heating bills and eat beef – due to all the cow farts, you know. It was the year in which, during the summer, the climate alarmists began to mount an organized, global effort to deprive those who can afford them of any vacations that involve long-haul flights. It was the year that a George Soros-funded New York State Attorney General’s office attempted to convince a court to hold ExxonMobil responsible for knowing about “climate change” a full quarter century before anyone actually knew about it, only to be laughed out of the room by the state’s own supreme court.
So, at the end of a year such as this one, you had to figure it was inevitable that the Enviro-Marxist left would end it with yet another assault on free enterprise and Americans’ civil liberties. Hey, it’s what these people do.
Writing at the communist publication The Nation, some urban planner from…wait for it….California – because of course this nitwit is from California – named Kian Goh is now proposing that it would be just a peachy idea for the government to end the basic American right to own private property in general, and single-family homes specifically. Because, climate change, or something.
You can tell just from reading the title of Mr. Goh’s piece – “California’s Fires Prove the American Dream Is Flammable” – that it’s going to be a smorgasbord of Enviro-Marxist fright tactics wedded to openly Marxist policy proposals, and Goh does not disappoint, oh, no. All you really need to know about the piece, in fact, is contained in the subhead that reads, “If we want to keep cities safe in the face of climate change, we need to seriously question the ideal of private homeownership.”
Oh. Sounds legit, right? Well, it does if you are a hopelessly ignorant nitwit who wants to the government to dictate every step you take every day of your life, which sadly describes roughly 40% of the U.S. population today, and about 90% of the employees in the nation’s corrupt news media.
I’m old enough to remember when leftist Democrats pretended to be all for individual rights to home ownership. That was waaaayyyyyyyyyyyyy back in the…wait for it … 1990s when Bill Clinton was forcing Fannie May and Freddie Mac to give mortgage loans to pretty much anyone who wanted one, even to those who manifestly could not afford them. Because, fairness, or something. That, by the way, was also the administration of Vice President Al Gore, the scam artist who has profited perhaps more than anyone on earth from pushing the climate scam during the 21st century.
But that’s all changed now and Mr. Goh is the new left’s poster child. Goh’s basic thesis is to use the issue of California wildfires as a tool to attack private housing. He is especially against building individual homes in rural areas, basically because they’re, er, flammable. Oh, yeah, and he’s also opposed to – you’ll never guess – “cheap energy”, i.e., affordable utility bills:
The growth of urban regions in the second half of the 20th century has been dominated by economic development, aspirations of home ownership, and belief in the importance of private property. Cities and towns have expanded in increasingly disperse fashion, fueled by cheap energy.
His proposed solution is, of course, less individual freedom, replaced by government command-and-control, i.e., Marxism:
To engage with these challenges, we need to do more than upgrade the powerlines or stage a public takeover of the utility companies. We need to rethink the ideologies that govern how we plan and build our homes.
Next, he plays the race card in a transparent attempt to curry favor with minorities:
In and around so many cities, new building technologies, racist lending practices, systemic criminalization of the poor and people of color, and uneven patterns of “creative destruction”—that is, cycles of investment and disinvestment across city centers and suburbs—favored one kind of residential development: single-family houses for those deemed qualified, which typically meant white, middle-class families.
So predictable. So tiresome. So utterly Alinskyite.
The next step in this paint-by-the-numbers leftist climate alarm piece is of course to blame the fires on “climate change” even though the frequency and intensity of U.S. forest fires has in fact fallen since all the climate alarmism as a stalking horse for Marxism began in the late 1980s:
The valorizing of homeownership and property rights results not only in increased exposure to climate-change-fueled fires, but also in our inadequate responses to them.
Then he goes on to signal the next step to come in this Enviro-Marxist campaign to deprive Americans of their rights: The assault on individual rights to own homes on the coast:
Discussions have surged over the last two years about the need for coastal communities to retreat further inland as they face rising sea levels—a seemingly more imminent threat. How should we broach the more uncertain risks of fire?
This dude has your future all planned out for you, you just don’t know it yet.
And here comes the money paragraph, the paragraph in which Goh very predictably exposes himself as a supporter of The Commie, Bernie Sanders, who has chosen to enlist Alexandria Ocasio Cortez and her Green New Deal as his campaign’s mascot:
There are other options, in theory: Rental housing serves many cities around the world well, although we should be wary about perpetuating the power of landlords in this country without delinking ownership from wealth creation. There has been resurgent interest in government-planned and -built public housing, including recent legislation proposed by Ilhan Omar, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and Bernie Sanders that would shore up and invigorate the federal system. The Green New Deal invokes prior eras of government intervention, lending itself to revitalized thinking about the social value of public goods.
The Climate Scam always has been and always will be a stalking horse for the global implementation of Marxist-style socialism. Every suggested “solution” ever offered by any adherent to Climate Change religious dogma has, without exception, involved a Soviet-style command-and-control central government depriving individuals of their rights and prosperity.
The right to own personal property was enshrined by the founders of this country because they understood that it was a crucial tool in maintaining personal freedom. As such, it should surprise no one that the climate scammers would seek to deprive Americans of that key right, along with their liberty and pursuit of happiness.
They are telling you everything they want to do to you, folks – all you have to do is read and listen.
That is all.
But what about landlord rights to create passive income with rental slaves. Landlords crap up the neighborhood and pay low property taxes where homeowners support their renters’ public schoolz education.
Landlords want one thing, higher dense housing to crap up the community.
Soon hotels are converted into Communist Skyrises.
Landlords create crappy density, not jobs. It is better to encourage job creating entrepreneurs.
Housing are NOT jobs. Retail are not jobs.
Landlords only create unwanted Democrats.
Renters are Blue State communists.
Owners are Red State conservatives.
You are absolutely right, but it does not address the real problem. These people do not want to fix global warming. They want very fine grained control over the people. You are easier to control when you are in confinement. That is what they want. AGW is just an excuse.
Stuff like this is just them musing over their wish list. The first order of business should they seize control is gun confiscation. They cannot control you if you can fight back.
Jefferson had a brain fart.
Liberty & happiness are the same and redundant.
Property is the better word but land is even better.
Life, liberty, and land.
IMHO these are Must Reads to understand the importance of private property rights in America. I started with Radical Son which I couldn’t put down, read it all one afternoon. Very Eye Opening!
RADICAL SON A Generational Odyssey by David Horowitz
HATING WHITEY and Other Progressive Causes by David Horowitz
THE POLITICS OF BAD FAITH The Radical Assault on America’s Future by David Horowitz
THE ART OF POLITICAL WAR
and Other Radical Pursuits by David Horowitz
Where do Landlords crap up the neighborhood and pay low property taxes ? Everyone I know here in Texas who rents out a property pays very high property tax. You can only get Homestead Exemption on the home you live in. Our daughter rented out her first house after she bought her second one and didn’t charge enough rent to even COVER the property tax. Our property tax is over $15 K a year.
I like your suggestion... Life Liberty and Land!
I guess property covers your car, money, furniture, belongings, etc.
An apartment of 32 units pays much lower property taxes.
Nearby homeowners are forced to pay property taxes to subsidize the public school education, of the 32 tenants who get a freebie.
The more dense the units, the more homeowners are coerced to pay.
One dense apartment unit can house a lot of children, who do not pay property taxes. The higher rise the stories, the greater burden orher people pay.
Union teachers love the arrangement.
High dense landlords create socialist burderns for working people. Remember that burden next time you drive past that 500 unit apartment.
The only thing these climate scammers are good for is their bones once dried and ready to fuel a fire.
Okay; maybe Soylent Green too. J/K. I have no idea if bones make good firewood. Gold fillings might be worth something though...
Your daughter's high taxes are a subsidy to high unit apartments full of children. She is paying their education like a slave. And the mass apartment tenats did not even send her a thank you card.
>>>HATING WHITEY and Other Progressive Causes by David Horowitz<<<
You should have seen the face of the Kid at Barnes and Noble when I asked where I could find that Book.
THE ULTIMATE QUESTION
Is a single family detached home sustainable in a Blue State?
Or are Communist Skyrises the future?
In truth all forms of Socialism is just neo-feudalism... masters and serfs. Socialism/Feudalism doesn’t “trickle down”... it trickles up. Like an Old South plantation, the labor and property of the workers is stolen and “redistributed” to politically powerful. The serfs/slaves live little more than a rationed subsistence, disarmed and powerless, propagandized by state-run media with any questioning much less dissenting voices censored… so they have little choice but to obey their “owners”.
Stolen labor used to called slavery, but now is “fairness” and “economic justice”. Notice everything (misnamed) “progressives” advocate to separate us from our labor and liberty... is called (fill in blank) “justice”.
In their arrogance, they are sure... any problem can be “solved” by just taking more and more of the people’s labor and liberty... and making government bigger with more control over our daily lives. #Dystopia for us #Utopia for them.
“Soviet style skyrises are coming and it’s no joke, workerbees.”
I believe these are called “projects.” They should build a bunch of them in places like Beverly Hills and Malibu.
Al Gore???
Ah marxism. The most oppressive form of feudalism yet devised by man.
“I have no idea if bones make good firewood.”
Bonemeal is great for the flower garden! Roses love bonemeal.
A good example of how communism really works can be seen series Same Sky. The story of a German village split in the middle by the Cold War.
Our property tax is over $15 K a year.””
Texas does NOT have state income taxes...therefore, high property taxes. One reason I crossed out moving to there.
MOVE to FLORIDA!!!
Politicians in Reno/Wahoe County, Nevada have worked very hard to bring MORE JOBS to N Nevada. Too Successfully, IMO.
They have hired OVER 60,000 in the Reno area alone, and I can assure you that rents of existing places have doubled +++.. Average November Reno home sale price was over $350,000 for old small properties.
The cry for ‘affordable housing’ is loud & shrill.
The advent of new employees & companies has a backside-—not enough housing & it cannot be created fast enough, especially in a climate of 4 seasons right next to the Sierra Nevada range & winter conditions.
It has gotten STUPID enough that Reno City Council & Washoe County Commissioners are now voting to allow development in FLOOD ZONES.
Beyond me how they can indemnify those future homeowners against flooding. Developers will be long gone when the SHTF.
The cry of crowded schools is also resonating. The cost of a new middle school is in the multi-millions.
I went to a one room school & the toilet paper budget for such a current middle school would have paid for the entire property I got an education in. I wasn’t alone, either.
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