Posted on 07/24/2013 12:02:52 PM PDT by whitedog57
HUD Secretary Shaun Donovan gave an interesting speech at the NAACP meeting in Orlando on July 16th.
To be sure, inner city poverty is a serious problem. The public policy question is how to best address this problem. But HUD Secretary Donovan lays the blame on racial discrimination.
The key phrases in his speech are:
“Bottom line: people are being denied their freedom of choice and the benefits of full citizenship. Yet because of the subtle nature of this discrimination, often times, they don’t even know they have been subjected to this abuse.”
“That’s why HUD is enhancing its enforcement techniques by initiating investigations on our own without waiting for individuals to file complaints.”
This reminds me of the Federal government decision to slaughter barred owls … in order to save the spotted owl. Rather than Milton Friedman’s “Free to Choose” model, Donovan is adopting the “Father Knows Best” model.
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“Today, it’s about more than just addressing outright discrimination and access to the housing itself. It’s also about giving every community access to important neighborhood amenities that can make a tremendous difference in a person’s life outcome. I’m talking about good schools, safe streets, jobs, grocery stores, healthcare and a host of other important factors. To help families gain this access – HUD is working to strengthen our stewardship of federal dollars to maximize the impact they have on communities in advancing fair housing goals.”
In other words, Donovan is saying the minority neighborhoods are unsafe and have lousy schools (despite the staggering dollars spent). Rather than promoting jobs and economic growth to help minorities, Donovan is suggesting spreading minorities out into affluent areas (specifically suburbs).
He has suggested this approach before. In fact, he suggested building affordable housing in safe neighborhoods with good schools. Such as in Westchester County in New York.
How would Donovan’s plan work? HUD would create maps of housing and racial composition by neighborhood. If a neighborhood (or other metric) does not have the desired composition, the neighborhood/country/state would be punished by withholding Federal funds … and God knows what else.
Rather than adopt this approach, I would suggest that the Obama Administration focus on job creation giving minority households a chance to escape dangerous neighborhoods. Without job and wage growth, how will Donovan’s plan help other than spreading the misery of poverty? I refer to his approach as “Donovan’s Reef” since the economy is stuck on a reef and Donovan just wants to spread the misery of poverty.
“African-Americans,” Donovan said, “are being denied their freedom of choice.” Yes, by bad government policies, regulation and the growth of the entitlement state.
So, is Secretary Donovan and President Obama advocating redlining? That is, drawing lines around neighborhoods. It is legal for the government to redline neighborhoods but not lenders? Huh.
I suggest that Secretary Donovan read Nobel Laureate James Buchanan’s “The Limits of Liberty: Between Anarchy and Leviathan.” Donovan’s proposal definitely shows up on the leviathan side of the ledger.
And those neighborhoods would very quickly cease being safe and cease having good schools.
Our inillustrious Congress blithely approves of this crap, no doubt.
Who you gonna call?
GERRYMANDERBUSTERS!
It’s funny that people don’t see this for what it is.
They want to enforce racial quotas on the land.
If their demographic survey shows there’s a high concentration of whites, they will immediately march an occupation force of non-whites into the area, under the rubric of “de-segregation”.
Escape from the chaos will not be possible. The predator class will be embedded so as to preclude this.
They know white families look at demographic data when they want to move somewhere. So what happens by choice has to be stopped. White Flight must be countered by government force.
So, where does this end? Every white family will be issued their own non-white family not of their choice to live with them?
That’s about the size of it.
In what way does this resemble a government at the consent of the governed?
It’s been happening since the 1950’s.
Blacks move in and whites move out.
Whites do not move out because they want to, they move out because they have to. The loud boogie boxes, the drug dealers that come to the corners, the grass that isn’t cut or torn out by the roots, the abandoned cars, the robberies and assaults. Kids screaming and yelling and no adult supervision.
Another fact is that people like to be with their own kind.
I know the Government doesn’t like that, but it’s a fact.
It should be a right, but it isn’t.
As long as they start this nonsense in liberal strongholds so as the first affect is felt by those who support liberal causes. They like to come up with plans that those “racist” blue collars and lower middle class folks who don’t have the ability to hire high priced lawyers to find some excuse to not move the vermin in. How about the upper east side to start with Or the nicer parts of DC?
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