Another cabinet member PWN3D!
Posted on 07/03/2009 10:45:56 AM PDT by smokingfrog
Once upon a time, when cities were poor and suburbs were rich, "urban policy" meant programs to alleviate poverty.
But in the last few decades, the cities and suburbs turned inside out. Poverty spread in the aging suburbs, as many encountered rising immigration, unemployment and crime. Wealth flooded once again to the cities, as urban living and enterprise came back in vogue. City and suburb started to look economically alike.
Now President Obama has created the Office of Urban Affairs, which seeks to redefine the word "urban." It aims to establish a policy agenda not just for inner cities, but for the suburbs that surround them, and it views these metropolitan regions as the country's economic engines.
"Part of our discussion as a country will be, 'What is urban?' " said Adolfo Carrión Jr., Office of Urban Affairs director. "We want to essentially tease out what the elements of a national agenda ought to be."
In his most definitive statements laying out the office's work, Carrión said in an interview that he hopes to spark a national conversation about urban needs. He said he plans to bring agencies together to change urban growth patterns and foster opportunity, reduce sprawl, and jump-start the economy.
His goals catch the White House up to a decade of theory from social scientists who have advanced a new idea of "metropolitan policy," especially those at the Brookings Institution, where the concept was coined. They say the national economy is made up of smaller regional economies centered around cities, which can be strengthened by integrated federal investment and planning across municipal borders.
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My thought exactly—an “urban czar”.
We tried to move our manufacturing biz to the center of town but couldn’t find any buildings. The city (in all its wisdom) steered the downtown area into an “artist’s community”. Now all we have is trendy coffee shops amongst the liquor stores and dilapidated buildings.
urban means the middle class and upper middle class will have all their wealth taken from them as payoffs to Obama supporters.
“Maybe we need some more czars.”
Washington needs one big enema!
What next? I will no longer be considered Rural? What about us ‘Rural Poor?’ Oh, we’re WHITE? That’s right. Due to Liberal Guilt, it’s my moral duty and obligation to re-distribute my tiny bit of self-made wealth to wealthy, black, upsale city slickers now?
What a tragic time we’re living through. Well, I HOPE we live through it!
And don’t forget racism, massive census and election fraud. Those 4 items scream the code word “urban” to me!
But of course it’s Whitey who’s been accused of using “code words”.
Fixed it!
Gubmint has done such a great job with the inner cities, it wants to spread the joy to where you live! Want your town to look like Detroit? No problem!
“what the elements of a national agenda ought to be.”
There shouldn’t be one. It should be left up to the states.
” Wealth flooded once again to the cities, as urban living and enterprise came back in vogue.”
What complete crap.
Detroit is still a sh*thole and will remain a sh*thole.
Seattle has more dogs than children.
And LA is broke.
These new urbanists (Marxists) are constantly bleating about how wonderful their whore-mongering big city ratholes are. Yet taxes are high, infrastructure is crumbling, population is falling, businesses are fleeing, crooked politicians rape the citizenry and all the fat, stupid thieving bureaucrats are driving $40,000 SUVs while the natives get around in rustbuckets.
Ah, Marxist paradise.
urban means the middle class and upper middle class will have all their wealth taken from them as payoffs to Obama supporters.
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Hasn’t Obama mentioned that? Taking extra tax money from the suburbs and using that money to give to the poor to rebuild the inner cities? I think it was around the time the 2001 audiotapes surfaced about the Constitution being flawed and the civil rights movement of the 60’s not going far enough.
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