Battle Rages as GOP Saves Obama Plot to Diversify Neighborhoods

After some grandstanding to placate outraged constituents, establishment Republicans in Congress quietly voted to fund Obama's unconstitutional plan to fundamentally transform your neighborhood by bringing in more federally funded “diversity.” In short, if Big Brother's race-obsessed data-gathering machine determines that there are not enough poor or minority residents on welfare living in your city, town, zip code, or neighborhood, Obama wants to change that using your tax dollars. The scheme also sidelines states and borders by considering “regions” instead, a key element of the agenda to break down the traditional United States and its federalist system of government.

But the battle is far from over. And Americans still have many tools at their disposal to block the scheming. For instance, the “Affirmatively Further Fair Housing” plot is contingent on successfully bribing local officials into compliance. As more than a few analysts have observed, that means cities and communities can easily reject the plan. Simply stated, all they have to do is refuse to accept unconstitutional bribes from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). If the bribes (disguised as “grants” and so on) from a bankrupt Uncle Sam are refused, the strings they come attached with are null and void, leaving Washington, D.C., bureaucrats with no leverage. Some cities are already leading the way.

WTF did we give the republicans BOTH houses of Congress for?

Obama is a lame duck POTUS.

Yet they are behaving as if he's the most super-popular NEW POTUS, ever.

They don't even put up token opposition.

Pro tip: when you go back to your districts, and are running for re-election, give your constituents a REASON to send you back to DC.

These GOP morons will end up losing their seats over this.

And it won't be because of Trump.

Had they even done a half-assed job, there wouldn't even be a Trump to worry about.

Best explanation that I have heard is that this is a scheme to empty crappy neighborhoods that are in desirable locations then they can grab the land for their developer donors.

Not at all. We have a 20-year-old HOA community with the new construction: ie. Tyvek and energy-saving windows, doors and appliances under brick fronts and vinyl siding, with buried phone/cable/fiber lines. There are common areas, sidewalks, and the whole neighborhood backs onto a wooded state park. It was paradise when we moved here. There were homeowners of every race and religion here, roughly in the same proportion as the national demographic, all of whom could afford to live here, pay the community dues and keep their property up.

But during the Obama recession of 2009-10, owners who had to move for employment reasons, for instance, couldn't sell readily and the unpaid volunteer HOA Board voted to allow houses to be rented. Within months, the entire 130-home community started getting seeded with ghetto Section 8 renters, and now it is every four to six houses.

Now we have broken glass, loud parties late into the night when others have to get up for work the next day, thumper cars, speeding on the straightaways and around the corners regardless of children playing, thefts of yard and garden equipment and unbagged trash floating hither and yon. Participation in the HOA board meetings has stopped. The pool rules have had to become draconian. Those of us who pay the community dues without government assistance have seen them nearly quadruple, for fewer services, because now we have to pay for a mostly useless night security vehicle and someone to pick up dog waste, because the renters don't bother. They also defend their children trespassing on other's decks and yards, because they do not understand the whole concept of ownership. If you say no to them, angry moms come roaring out to lay the race card against you.

My lifetime housing investment (I am now retired) has already lost at least 30% of its market value, but taxes, too, have gone up. The black professionals who moved here initially to raise their kids in safety now are faced with guns and drugs in the schools and their children lumped in by skin color with the Section 8 fatherless children.

I shudder to think what our helpful socialist government will do next. And I am at a loss as to where to go that won't be forced to become just like here.

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