Posted on 06/08/2007 11:43:36 AM PDT by ElkGroveDan
SB 375 requires all regional transportation planning decisions and all transportation funding to be limited to a preferred growth scenario, that requires a minimum housing density of 10 units per acre. It was adopted by the Senate on June 7, 2007. Here is Senator McClintocks speech in opposition to the bill:
Mr. President:
This measure says that all transportation plans and transportation funding decisions must be made with the object of concentrating people in dense urban cores. In this bill, it is called a Preferred Growth Scenario. It says all transportation plans and funds must serve this Preferred Growth Scenario, and that, in turn, means at an absolute minimum packing in ten families per acre. Ten Families.
Welcome to the brave new world of central planning. This is a continuation of the policy that Gov. Schwarzenegger institutionalized with AB 32 and that Attorney General Brown operationalized by suing San Bernardino County.
Theyre basically saying, You cannot build new highways until you can show how youre going to build them without using earth-moving equipment or concrete and that, once theyre built, nobody is going to use them.
But the Left has an alternative thats what this bill is all about. They want everyone to move into dense urban cores the denser the better. Thats what this bill means when it uses the term, Preferred Growth Scenario.
And fellow Californians: They arent talking about your preferences for your own life theyre talking about their preferences for your own life. And for your familys life.
Preferred Growth Scenario. They prefer that you move into dense urban cores and they are prepared to manipulate public policy and misuse government authority to force you to do so.
And they couldnt care less what you prefer for your own life and your own family.
Ive got news for the authoritarians on the Left: most people dont want to live in dense urban cores. Most people want a little elbow room they want a yard for their children to play in. They want a little grass, a little garden, a little breathing room they can call their own.
And who the hell are you to tell people they cant? Who the hell are you to tell people how and where theyre going to live? Who the hell are you to impose your preferences for their lives over their own preferences for their lives?
Thats at the heart of this issue. People have a right to live their lives according to their own preferences not governments and they have a right to live where they please to acquire property and enjoy that property. And in any free nation, government exists to respect and protect and accommodate that right.
The people were just sold a $20 billion bond measure to address our sadly neglected highways. After the election, the Governors Director of CalTrans admitted that at most $8 billion of the $20 would be used for highway construction. And this measure says little if any will be used for highways.
Many of us warned we were being sold a bill of goods that very little of that money would actually be used for highway construction. This bill is the ultimate proof of those warnings.
And it is the ultimate expression and embodiment of an arrogant, out of touch class of elitists who actually believe that they are naturally entitled to run your life for you.
Ok, so what the heck is a “liege?” Pardon my ignorance... I know, I should look it up, but I’m just tryin to “hit and run” here...
Just wait till they start stompin on tender parts of their own anatomy! Heifers standin on one of their own teats, tend to bawl their danged heads off most loudly and strenuously!!!
Good question. Gimme a couple hours to chase down that recording.
But in its written form, the word liege is prominent. Do you see whUt else could be chUnged?
Heck. I thought that was unintended. I shoulda known better. LOL
Of course, if what were once legislators became liegeslatterns, no other changes would be required.
liege noun 1. a feudal lord entitled to allegiance and service.
now check on the word slattern
LIEGESLATURE IT IS!!!
Just TELL ME!!! I depend on you to keep me informed!!! That’s why I come to FR!!! Not to be needled to look-up stuff!!! C’mon, I either too busy, or too lazy to do research on cryptic words that have real power. My vocabulary is always ready to absorb stuff like “kakistockricy.” (government by the worst among us)(grin)
The West once spoke of liege lords: leaders to whom allegience was vowed. Today that has become liege slatterns.
That took more time to type than to look up. You might want to bookmark "dictionary.com."
We knew this years ago, but many people, especially in California, seem to have forgotten.
They are being reminded.
Not really... As you know, I’d rather grumble. I’ve still got that “Cows Don’t Vote” decision bookmarked, however...
The only time we would be given a pass out of the hive-bound cities of filth is to patronize one of THEIR eco-tourism enterprises such as whitewater rafting over which they would then have an utter monopoly!!! Arnold can't see it, but he just got sucked right up their tailpipe in a hurry. Remember how they gave him and his family a free rafting trip right after the Recall so he could "unwind" whilst they were the very first to lobby his butt off in all the eddy pools of the American River???
It worked like a charm on Pete Wilson, too!!! It makes them and all their myriad groups of "friends" groups immune to practically any regulation that other industries must struggle under in this screwed-up state government!!! Illegitimate CONservancies and hard lobbying 501(c)3 corporations in league with state employees living here in the Sierra-Nevada CONservancy who politic every night and then commute to their high paying state job to implement "the Awanee Principles" by day!!!
Yeah, but the EnvironMental Communutty needed to lobby just to help the strategy take the proper shape and to advise Arnold of the “lay of the political landscape” on the ground, so to speak.
The corrupt news services leaped on this and immediately veered the discussion away from the soviet style totalitarianism that our state government is sponsoring to a discussion about whether the word ‘hell’ should be used in a public debate.
The people who are sponsoring this bill, and those that support it in the news agencies should pay attention.
To put a fine point on it, Hell, Mr. Steinberg, is where you deserve to go, if your bill is made into law.
I wasn't thinking liege I was thinking just lie. I gotta stretch my immagination more!!
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