CA: Perata wants more state control

Oakland Tribune ^ | 1/7/05 | Steve Geissinger

[hedgetrimmer]

"We are radically changing the lifestyle in California based upon our inability to wrestle with the problems of sprawl, congestion and affordability."

Perata is unable to deal with sprawl and congestion? Mr. Perata, how can you have sprawl and congestion at the same time? Mr. Perata, in making our constitutional government unable to maintain our infrastructure, you should resign.

Constitutional government works, but the radical changes in lifestyle Mr. Perata is promoting for the state of California is nothing short of establishing a soviet housing system with little or no individual property ownership, no privacy, no backyards for kids to play in, and no automobiles.

Soviet Union, here we come!

[goldstategop]

Socialism - Perata style. Its apopros it should come from one of the most liberal areas in our state.

[Simmy2.5]

Centralizing powers to the state. Hmmmmmmmmmm. I think they tried it before...

Soviet Union.

[hedgetrimmer]

Centralizing powers to the state

Check out the California Performance Review, if you need reassurance that we are headed toward a soviet system. The governor wants to eliminate elected representatives, create mega agencies with appointed heads all reporting directly to the governor, and wipe out our county system by undermining county boundaries with unelected regional councils to govern us.

Many people don't know that "soviet" is another word for council. Its no coincidence that those that want to promote a lifestyle in the image of the soviet union is using unelected councils to do it. In fact its the same trick the Russians used in the Ukraine in the 1930s to establish their control of that country.

[sheik yerbouty]

Peralta is just another Stalinoid apparatchik.

[Seaplaner]

...the state seize some...power from cities and counties ..." and centralize planning authority.

And it would be a shining success, just like the BCS!

[hedgetrimmer]

Do you know of Sunne Wright McPeak? She heads the governor's office of Business, Transportation & Housing. All those functions under one person. Its no coincidence that a "smart growth" advocate like Sunne would be in charge of jobs, transporation and housing. Smart growth is another name for government controlling every aspect of a persons life, from where they work, to where they live and how they get to their job.

Guess who decides which businesses operate in a smart growth community? Guess who decides who is going live in the cost shifted housing and who is going to pay for the price bubble it causes in the so-called market priced housing? Guess who decides if you get to keep your car?

[Simmy2.5]

BTW, what they are trying to do, with the high density 'Soviet' housing, check out this website! http://www.skyscrapercity.com/forumdisplay.php?f=439

Check out some of the threads containing Russian cities. They look like those old housing project ghettos areas in Chicago or New York...EXCEPT BIGGER! Is this what we want the future of California to be? Smart growth?

[hedgetrimmer]

Peralta is just another Stalinoid apparatchik

That being said, what are we going to do to preserve our liberty and the free market for housing and jobs and businesses? Peralta can do the citizens of California great harm in his position.

[sheik yerbouty]

Obviously he needs to be removed from office. Isn't he in some sort of legal hot water now?

[hedgetrimmer]

Is this what we want the future of California to be? Smart growth?

Not me! But it is the future of our whole country, as smart growth is a policy adopted under the federal governments sustainable development policies-- which are nothing short of a transformation of our constitutional government to a soviet socialist system.

Right now Arnold is dangling money from the state to the counties if they put in smart growth projects. They are trying to put lipstick on a pig however, and are adding architectural amenities to their soviet bloc housing projects so people will think they look nice.

[RJL]

"I will guarantee you that if there was any effort to provide affordable housing, through higher density, there would be a (housing) rush like you wouldn't believe," he (Perata) said.

What a guy!

He could invest his own money in high density affordable housing and become rich overnight, but instead he continues to plug away for all of California for a salary.

/sarcasm

[hedgetrimmer]

Bribes or illegal money of some sort, I think.

[farmfriend]

Hmmm.

[goldstategop]

I'll propose a deal with Perata: the libs in the Bay Area can have state-controlled housing if we get a spending limit cap constitutional amendment. In other words, the libs get they want and we get what we want. Since he's a wheeler-dealer, it should save us a bloody fight in the State Legislature over spending reform.

[hedgetrimmer]

"I will guarantee you that if there was any effort to provide affordable housing cost shifted is the correct term, through higher density, there would be a (housing) rush like you wouldn't believe," he (Perata) said.

Every one of the smart growth affordable homes require that someone else buying into the development pay more that than their home is worth to shift the cost from the so called low invome buyer to someone else "who can afford it". It is classic wealth redistribution, soviet style, from each according to his ability, to each according to his need.

The smart growth planners and politicians talk about housing needs all the time, and they mean to each according to his need when they say it.

[RJL]

The California legislature needs to start thinking about sustainability too.

The tsunami in Asia proves that the sea coast is not sustainable. California must completely stop all improvements within 10 miles of the coast and move or destroy all improvements within 10 miles of the coast within 10 years.

This same plan must also be implemented along all known fault lines as well.

This might seem a little drastic, but think of the lives we will eventually save. These off limit areas will return to a wild state for all the animals too.

It's a win win for everybody!