[E. Pluribus Unum]

I smell UN Agenda 21.

[MtnClimber]

Controlling peoples movement has been a dream of leftists for a long time. Leftistism translation “smart” = “stupid slave”.

[rineaux]

"The U.S. Department of Transportation has pledged up to $40 million and Vulcan Inc., added $10 million to "the pot" for the winning city.

Pot is legal there.

[Ray76]

[smokingfrog]

Speaking of “smart”, we got a smart meter at my house a couple of years ago. Turns out, they are defective and around 60,000 or more of them have been installed. They either don’t have enough memory, or it gets corrupted after a while. They have to send someone out to your house to unplug the meter so it will reboot and clear the memory. What a cluster-flook.

[pnut22]

Never thought I’d see the words Denver and smart in the same sentence.

[txrefugee]

Wow…cities that do this are stupid, not “smart.” When the grid goes, the city stops, and the grid will definitely go at some point from a natural disaster, enemy attack, or hackers who will hold the city for ransom. I wouldn’t live in such a city.

[867V309]

Smartest thing about Denver is leaving it. Especially Aurora.

[Noumenon]

Panopticon coming atcha. Cue the Central Scrutinizer.

[Secret Agent Man]

if my town ever’goes this way, i will be moving.

[RightGeek]

$50 million! That won’t even get the bureaucrats coffee.

[Nuc 1.1]

I don’t want to be a slave to a self driving car or any “smart” technology. No more of my freedom will be given to our government tyrants.

[roadcat]

Denver can have the title, "Smart City". Really. San Francisco tried to be a "smart city" but it did some dumb stuff. SF spent millions on new electric buses painted with big letters "ZEV - Zero Energy Vehicle", as if it was something new. Thing is, SF has had electric trolley buses for many decades with overhead electric wires. The new buses are no different, except costing millions more. SF acts as though electricity uses zero energy to create. Then they tried to dismantle coal burning power plants in the city, until the state stopped them because state regulations insist they be able to create their own electricity during disasters. They built energy recharging stations at City Hall for electric cars, as if the electricity is cleanly generated. It comes from burning coal, gas and oil!

This smart city nonsense is dumb, dumb, dumb. Denver can have the title, and waste their money on it.

[Talisker]

Watch out when you see the word "smart." This WAS a "smart" car. Do the math:

[FlingWingFlyer]

The U.S. Treasury is the country’s newest Publisher’s Clearing House giving away prizes? Whiskey Tango Foxtrot?

[Amendment10]

I like the idea of experimenting with “smart” cities.

H O W E V E R …

The only clause in Congress’s constitutional Article I, Section 8-limited powers that arguably gives the corrupt Washington cartel a lame excuse to appropriate taxes for such an INTRAstate proect is Clause 7 which gives Congress the power to make mail roads.

Note that Thomas Jefferson advised deliberately forcing narrow interpretations of the federal government’s constitutionally limited powers to force the states to amend the Constitution in such cases.

"In every event, I would rather construe so narrowly as to oblige the nation to amend, and thus declare what powers they would agree to yield, than too broadly, and indeed, so broadly as to enable the executive and the Senate to do things which the Constitution forbids." --Thomas Jefferson: The Anas, 1793.

So just as with Obamacare and possibly Trumpcare, the states need to amend the Constitution to actually make such federal spending programs like “smart” cities constitutional.

Otherwise, unconstitutional federal funding for this “smart” city program is another example of the corrupt feds unconstitutionally expanding their powers in small steps which James Madison and Thomas Jefferson had warned against.

• ”I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments by those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.” —James Madison, Speech at the Virginia Convention to ratify the Federal Constitution (1788-06-06)

• ”To take a single step beyond the boundaries thus specially drawn around the powers of Congress, is to take possession of a boundless field of power, no longer susceptible of any definition.” —Thomas Jefferson, Jefferson's Opinion on the Constitutionality of a National Bank : 1791

• ”The system of the General Government is to seize all doubtful ground. We must join in the scramble, or get nothing. Where first occupancy is to give right, he who lies still loses all.” —Thomas Jefferson to James Monroe, 1797.

Remember in November !

When patriots elect Trump, Cruz, or whatever conservative they elect, they also need to elect a new, state sovereignty-respecting Congress that will not only work within its constitutional Article I, Section 8-limited powers to support the president, but also protect the states from unconstitutional federal government overreach, federal funding for “smart” cities an example.

Also, consider that such a Congress would probably be willing to fire state sovereignty-ignoring activist justices.