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Congress looks at making cities more "livable" (Dodd proposal to fund comprehensive city planning)
Reuters on Yahoo ^ | 6/9/10 | Lisa Lambert

Posted on 06/09/2010 12:18:50 PM PDT by NormsRevenge

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To: NormsRevenge

Airstrip One, Oceania

Central planning by the Ministry of Plenty.


21 posted on 06/09/2010 12:30:20 PM PDT by WayneS ("1984" was a WARNING, not an Instruction Manual.)
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To: NormsRevenge

Just another 3.75 Billion dollars of new spending. These goofballs keep on writing hot checks that will be left to our kids to fund. Maybe dodd figures since he is retiring, he might as well put the icing on the cake he created with the bank extortion plan.


22 posted on 06/09/2010 12:31:24 PM PDT by Texas resident (Outlaw fisherman)
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To: NormsRevenge

Don’t we already pay city taxes for this type of stuff?


23 posted on 06/09/2010 12:32:23 PM PDT by EBH (Our First Right...."it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it,")
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To: NormsRevenge

sounds like the “Smart Growth” plan of Al Gore and other liberals that
dominated the town I live in now (Columbia MO).

We recently had some ADULTS voted to fill the office of mayor and
two city council members...replacing the liberal nutburgers pimping for
“Smart Growth”.

In less than a month, IBM says they are bringing 800 jobs to Columbia.

Although it seems to be a verbotten topic, I suspect IBM made their
decision when they realized ADULTS were running the city once again.


24 posted on 06/09/2010 12:35:59 PM PDT by VOA
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To: NormsRevenge

If you want to make cities livable try detaining the criminals in long term prison camps for a change!


25 posted on 06/09/2010 12:37:04 PM PDT by Dem Guard ("Throw the trash out November 2nd!")
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To: NormsRevenge

This is a waste of money primarily because within the next few years, American cities won’t be livable at all. They will be radioactive wastelands similar to Pripyat in the Ukraine, near the Chernobyl disaster site.

The reason for this will be because of multiple nuclear detonations from Russian and Chinese strategic nuclear weapons in a massive first strike.


26 posted on 06/09/2010 12:37:51 PM PDT by MGMSwordsman
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To: NormsRevenge

Idiots! Where the heck do they get the notion that cities are part of the Federal Government? I can understand DC, which was meant to be a federal enclave (although I think much of it should be retroceded to MD).

HUD should also be dissolved. Housing and urban development are state issues, not a federal issues.


27 posted on 06/09/2010 12:39:35 PM PDT by Crolis ("Nemo me impune lacessit!" - "No one provokes me with impunity!")
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To: NormsRevenge

“Our nation is facing a number of significant problems, including a struggling economy, an explosion in home foreclosures, the looming threat of climate change, an increasingly worrisome dependence on foreign oil, deteriorating infrastructure, and, yes, worsening traffic congestion,” he said.”

ALL OF THESE CONDITIONS HAVE BEEN CREATED BY THESE LUNATICS!
My sanity may not hold until November.


28 posted on 06/09/2010 12:40:27 PM PDT by 20 years too late
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This is idiotic. The main problem with cities is the people who live in them. See the old movies of the 30’s and 40’s or old newsreels and clips. For the most part polite, well-dressed people going about their business. Contrast that to the denizens of places like Orange NJ or Springfield MA (my city) today. Welfare mothers revealing their blubber in spandex pants as they cuss their kids and toss McDonald's trash out the windows of the tax-payer subsidized SUV’s; unemployed youts (sic) drinking 40 Oz on the corners in between drug deals. Corrupt politicians flashing by in their government wheels on their way to the next bribe.

Point being, the cities or any place else will never improve until the people do.

29 posted on 06/09/2010 12:41:45 PM PDT by oncebitten (Re: Obama: "I could carve a better man out of a banana." T. roosevelt)
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poor California, looks more and more like Juarez each day.
30 posted on 06/09/2010 12:43:02 PM PDT by org.whodat
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Great post. Thanks.


31 posted on 06/09/2010 12:44:30 PM PDT by layman (Card Carrying Infidel)
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To: Crolis
For those who remember Bruce Willis' character in the Fifth Element and the apartment he lived in. That's the future for everyone if the liberals have their way:

Description: The top of the fridge is the floor/drain for the shower stall. The "kitchen" is left of the fridge/shower against the wall. The bed slides out from the alcove to the right of the fridge lengthwise from the wall.


32 posted on 06/09/2010 12:48:31 PM PDT by Crolis ("Nemo me impune lacessit!" - "No one provokes me with impunity!")
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To: NormsRevenge

Is this going to be part of the 5 year or 20 year Politburo plan???


33 posted on 06/09/2010 1:01:34 PM PDT by RatRipper (I'll ride a turtle to work every day before I buy anything from Government Motors.)
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To: WayneS

That’s the view looking north from the 125th/Broadway elevated subway station in Manhattan.


34 posted on 06/09/2010 1:05:29 PM PDT by NativeNewYorker (Freepin' Jew Boy)
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To: NormsRevenge

TRANSLATION: Our government wishes to shut down inner city slums and move their current occupants (and CREATORS) nearer the suburbs! So our own tax dollars will be used to devalue our property! Sounds like a lot of FUN, doesn’t it!


35 posted on 06/09/2010 1:08:35 PM PDT by Oldpuppymax
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To: RatRipper

more like a 50 year plan,, these bastards dream hardy..


36 posted on 06/09/2010 1:09:34 PM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi ... Godspeed .. Monthly Donor Onboard .. Chuck DeVore - CA Senator. Believe.)
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To: NativeNewYorker

Thanks. It was just a guess.

I don’t spend very much time in cities, other than an occasional trip to Charlottesville, Richmond or, {shudder}, Washington, DC; and I people from NYC would probably consider both od those “small towns”.


37 posted on 06/09/2010 1:12:42 PM PDT by WayneS ("1984" was a WARNING, not an Instruction Manual.)
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To: oncebitten

No kidding!!! People USED to be well dressed even when they had no money!! Men always wore sport coats...even to baseball games!! Those were the days.


38 posted on 06/09/2010 1:19:14 PM PDT by Ann Archy
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To: Ancient Drive

AMEN! cut taxes!

also, bulldoze DC!


39 posted on 06/09/2010 1:31:49 PM PDT by buffyt (Abortion is the ultimate CHILD ABUSE!)
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To: NativeNewYorker

That looks like the former East Germany!


40 posted on 06/09/2010 1:33:18 PM PDT by buffyt (Abortion is the ultimate CHILD ABUSE!)
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