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Obama making bid to diversify wealthy neighborhoods
The Hill ^ | June 11, 2015 | Tim Devaney

Posted on 06/11/2015 5:12:49 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife

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To: Buckeye McFrog

Exactly!

WTF is wrong with these people?

Wait! Never mind. They ARE socialists, after all.


41 posted on 06/11/2015 5:54:27 AM PDT by WayneS (Yeah, it's probably sarcasm...)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife
This experiment has been done countless times. The government "obtains" some choice land or properties, and either builds or renovates to the tunes of millions and millions of dollars, with glamourous-looking, chic townhomes or condos. It's a regular page out of Home & Garden magazine.

But then the Amish move in with their entitlement mentalities. Since everything was given to them at no real cost, they don't care about maintenance, about upkeep, nor general cleanliness. They don't paint, they don't plant gardens or trees, and they don't repair things that are broken. In five years' time, the entire neighborhood is picked over like a scene from a zombie movie.

It's not about "balancing" diversity or opening up access to more desirable neighborhoods. It's about nihlism, and living a lifestyle that rejects any hope for the future.

42 posted on 06/11/2015 5:54:47 AM PDT by Lou L (Health "insurance" is NOT the same as health "care")
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To: Soul of the South

I wouldn’t put it past them to force ineligible or low income prospects into those properties by forcing banks to bump their offers to the top of the list, even if the offer is less than others made.


43 posted on 06/11/2015 5:55:19 AM PDT by rarestia (It's time to water the Tree of Liberty.)
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To: liberalh8ter

No.

Instead we will all be equally miserable.

The Audis and yachts will be for the “more equal” pigs.


44 posted on 06/11/2015 5:55:57 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

speed boats that are actually fishing boats are the equivalent of wool coats vs fur coats........ virtuous Republican values


45 posted on 06/11/2015 5:57:39 AM PDT by bert ((K.E.; N.P.; GOPc.;+12, 73, ..... No peace? then no peace!)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

Put a bunch of yemani mooselimb immigrants in say nantucket.
Yeah, that’s the ticket.


46 posted on 06/11/2015 6:05:29 AM PDT by Joe Boucher ( Obammy is a lie, a mooselimb and pond scum.)
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To: Paladin2
An HOA controlled community is much like a faschist government on a smaller scale. It is much like a national Socialist government would be except for being voluntary. Relinquishing personal liberty for “security” is a poor but common choice.

I disagree with that. An HOA controlled community often has the best of government. The HOA of our gated community meets annually to elect three officers. Those officers serve with no pay. The goal is to benefit the members, by helping the neighborhood be NICE. To benefit their property values etc. You can see those officers in the neighborhood. You can call them on the phone and voice concerns etc. And if they don't do a good job you can replace them, and you can run for that elected position yourself, without spending $$$$$$. But you'll have to be responsive to the neighborhood or they'll replace you.

Yes, it has restrictions about the color of your house, the size, etc.... all of that. And no one is required to buy a home in this neighborhood. If a person wants to paint their house aquablue and put a yellow roof on it... they are absolutely free to do that somewhere else.

People who live in gated neighborhoods under HOA's are often looking to assimilate with like minded people, in a similar socio-economic status. Certainly Obammy wants to bust this up. Honestly, I compare people who buy a real property that is subject to HOA restrictons, and then try to bust up the HOA because they don't like one or more of the restrictions..... well I view them about like I view Obammy.

47 posted on 06/11/2015 6:06:56 AM PDT by kjam22 (my music video "If My People" at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74b20RjILy4)
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To: petercooper
You don’t live in my gated community, and can’t go in a private pool which is paid for by me, and other homeowners who live here. I don’t care. Go away, and go buy a $5 sprinkler to cool down.

Post of the day.....

48 posted on 06/11/2015 6:07:45 AM PDT by kjam22 (my music video "If My People" at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74b20RjILy4)
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To: Pollster1

Build that crap here, and it’ll burn before it’s “occupied”.


49 posted on 06/11/2015 6:08:43 AM PDT by Noumenon (Resistance. Restoration. Retribution.)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife
As an experiment let's demand 20 % Section 8 housing in every gated liberal enclave community...

After all, they all the time demanding diversity and race equality...

Lets put their money where their mouth is...

50 posted on 06/11/2015 6:10:59 AM PDT by Popman (Christ Alone: My Cornerstone...)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

There goes all the neighborhoods...


51 posted on 06/11/2015 6:11:27 AM PDT by JWC 1965
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To: Cincinatus' Wife
“This rule is not about forcing anyone to live anywhere they don’t want to,” said Margery Turner, senior vice president at the left-leaning Urban Institute. “It’s really about addressing long-standing practices that prevent people from living where they want to.”

Well now, finally a government program I can agree with! I've always wanted to live in a multi-million dollar mansion but the fact I don't make multi-millions of dollars has always prevented me from doing it.

Hey HUD -- BUY ME A MANSION!!

52 posted on 06/11/2015 6:13:43 AM PDT by usconservative (When The Ballot Box No Longer Counts, The Ammunition Box Does. (What's In Your Ammo Box?))
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To: Lou L

Yep.... picking up trash around the house costs less than a pair of air jordans. A couple of gallons of paint costs less than a pair of air jordans. Mowing costs less than a pair of air jordans.


53 posted on 06/11/2015 6:14:59 AM PDT by kjam22 (my music video "If My People" at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74b20RjILy4)
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To: JWC 1965; All
June 2015:

Special Report: San Francisco gives parents a say in where their children go to school — and that is leading to less diversity

"....Sanchez and Van Court are not alone. Even the African American community, the force behind the historical desegregation efforts, has fallen silent.

“We really don’t have any public demand for this,” State Board of Education President Mike Kirst said about desegregation. “The courts, of course, have largely retreated in this area. And I feel no bottom-up demand for this.”

But just because everybody’s OK with the status quo doesn’t mean it’s right, said Gary Orfield, co-director of the Civil Rights Project at UCLA..."

54 posted on 06/11/2015 6:19:46 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: Cincinatus' Wife; All

Planned communal regional centers and resettlements of “afro-americans” has allways been on the agenda by the regime. That was one of the first “solutions” offered by HUD immediately after the regime interjected the “victimization” device imitially used to divide US in the Zimmerman episode. But emphasis on regional centers was quietly dropped as the “victim” tactic was applied in Ferguson,and on and on and on.

While “victimization” initial purpose was to use division to prevent any congressional Constitutional action questioning of actions taken by the Executive branch.
The regional concept revolves around the elimination of property rights. With that the regime is still moving forward. One of the agencies involved is the EPA .


55 posted on 06/11/2015 6:20:10 AM PDT by mosesdapoet (Some of my best rebuttals are in FR's along with meaningless venting no one reads.)
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To: Arm_Bears

The rules for ensuring a less than 10% chance of poverty:
1. Finish high school.
2. Don’t get married until 20.
3. Don’t have kids out of wedlock at any age.
4. Work full time.

For the black community:
1. lower high school attainment rates
2. lower odds of marriage, whether with or without children
3. 75% illegitimacy rate
4. high rates of unemployment, part time work, disability claims

That is a recipe for poverty, regardless of skin color.
That is not the fault of those who exercised self control, discipline and effort.


56 posted on 06/11/2015 6:20:24 AM PDT by tbw2
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To: Cincinatus' Wife
It could also tilt the balance of political power as more minorities are funneled into Republican-leaning neighborhoods, he suggested.

Now we see the REAL reason for this.

57 posted on 06/11/2015 6:24:43 AM PDT by Constitution Day (Ran When Parked)
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To: mosesdapoet
Hurricane Ike destroyed welfare housing (and a whole lot of other housing) in Galveston (Sept 2008)

LONG battle ensued about rebuilding it.

But guess who prevailed? Interesting read (short) - the tone and tenor is very telling.

Sept 2014: Galveston Housing Authority declares firm commitment to Fair Housing as construction begins

58 posted on 06/11/2015 6:29:24 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: Cincinatus' Wife
"DIVERSIFY" mY @SS!

The proper phraseology is

Obama attempting CULTURAL RAPE of Western culture
by forcing ghetto culture on people who avoid it.

59 posted on 06/11/2015 6:31:45 AM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: MrB
Obama attempting CULTURAL RAPE of Western culture by forcing ghetto culture on people who avoid it.

I'm convinced most people live in the "culture" they live in because it is where they are comfortable. It is what they want. I hear people, even people like Hannity talking about bringing jobs to impoverished areas as a way out of their plight. To lift them out of poverty. Yada yada yada. There is no fix for our poor, gheto, white trash, mexican ... whatever. Most people when they get grown end up in their status in life, at a level where they are comfortable. Comfortable because it is what they were taught, or more often comfortable because of the level of work and responsibility required to be there.

Liberals will never believe that.

60 posted on 06/11/2015 6:41:51 AM PDT by kjam22 (my music video "If My People" at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74b20RjILy4)
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