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Buttigieg proposes repopulating rural areas with immigrants
Agri-Pulse ^ | 08.13.19 | Philip Brasher and Delaney Howell

Posted on 02/12/2020 10:29:46 AM PST by Freedom56v2

Pete Buttigieg, (snip) proposed Tuesday to repopulate struggling communities by offering special visas to immigrants who agree to move to those towns.

The “community renewal” visas would be targeted to communities that have lost working-age population over the last 10 years as well as smaller cities that are lagging economically. Under the proposal, which is included in a rural policy plan Buttigieg unveiled while campaigning in Iowa, visa holders would be eligible to apply for green cards after living in the targeted community for at least three years.

“We have a plan to help grow jobs, to help grow population, and to help grow infrastructure that’s going to make sure that rural America can actually succeed going forward,” the South Bend, Ind., mayor told reporters during a stop at the Iowa State Fair in Des Moines.

Buttigieg said the visa proposal is based on the idea that depressed areas need “not just a job growth strategy but a population--growth strategy.” He emphasized that communities could choose whether or not to participate in the visa program.

Other proposals in Buttigieg’s plan overlap with plans released by former Vice President Joe Biden, Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren, Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders and others.

To reduce greenhouse gas emissions, Buttigieg proposes offering financial incentives to farmers to encourage carbon-conserving practices. He also calls for tougher enforcement of antitrust laws to protect farmers from the market power of agribusiness interests, and he proposes steps to expand rural broadband.

Buttigieg wants the Justice Department to investigate the recent mergers in the seed business that combined Dow and DuPont, and Bayer and Monsanto.

“The growing market power of corporations—particularly among processing plants and seed companies—means that the reinvigoration of the rural economy depends on a new era of heightened scrutiny of corporate mergers,”

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: buttigieg; immigration; refugees; visa
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To: Freedom56v2

Homosexual wants to populate US with Muslims who would kill him under Sharia.


21 posted on 02/12/2020 10:37:40 AM PST by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: Freedom56v2

Buttigieg will put Christians in concentration camps.


22 posted on 02/12/2020 10:37:41 AM PST by kaehurowing
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To: central_va

Bring them back... to the dem plantation.


23 posted on 02/12/2020 10:38:01 AM PST by NativeSon ( What Would Virginia Do? #WWVD)
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To: Freedom56v2

LAND REDISTRIBUTION COMING SOON.


24 posted on 02/12/2020 10:38:16 AM PST by ptsal
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To: Freedom56v2

Sired by a flaming Communist father, this twerp thinks the government can tell people where to live. Wrong. Americans are free to live where they choose. No wonder he was the ineffective mayor of a failed town, certanly not equipped to be president.


25 posted on 02/12/2020 10:38:57 AM PST by txrefugee
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To: Vigilanteman

People do not leave these areas for lack of a replacement population. They leave them for a lack of economic opportunities due to unfettered globalization and outsourcing.
Of course, Preacher Pete knows that. He just doesn’t care


SPOT ON!


26 posted on 02/12/2020 10:39:02 AM PST by Freedom56v2
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To: chuckee

translation: Gee, who is going to pay all of those Illinois taxes once all the white people downstate leave?


27 posted on 02/12/2020 10:39:05 AM PST by Buckeye McFrog (Patrick Henry would have been an anti-vaxxer)
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To: Freedom56v2

Imho, Booty Judge is not going to be president of the US.

5.56mm


28 posted on 02/12/2020 10:39:24 AM PST by M Kehoe (DRAIN THE SWAMP! Finish THE WALL!)
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To: PGR88
"The more I look at it, the more I believe Buttgoopy is the globalist, CIA / deep-state Manchurian candidate. He is the praetorian guard’s choice for the throne after Obama."

Dude. Obama's angry ex-SuperPAC of Ambazzadors started pouring MILLIONS on the dude in December.

Obama's handlers believe they are going to be able to take the 2008 script & cross out "1st African-American President" & pencil in "1st Ghey President". Let. Them. Try.

29 posted on 02/12/2020 10:39:50 AM PST by StAnDeliver (CNN's Dana B: "Show of hands: Coverage for undocumented immigrants?" ***all Democrat hands raised***)
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To: Freedom56v2

Isn’t this what Obama was doing with unmarked buses in the night? His plans were sometimes resisted when locals found out about the trips IIRC.


30 posted on 02/12/2020 10:39:57 AM PST by Truth29
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To: Freedom56v2

So the left does everything they can to starve out the rural population then offers to repopulate it.


31 posted on 02/12/2020 10:40:53 AM PST by Lurkina.n.Learnin (If you want a definition of "bullying" just watch the Democrats in the Senate)
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To: Buckeye McFrog

Does he want NO GO areas and Enclaves?

‘Cus this is how you get no go areas and enclaves!

And People left these areas, presumably because thee were no jobs. Now we are going to repopulate these areas, with people and they will still not have jobs?

Do I have this right Mayor Butt-Giggle?


32 posted on 02/12/2020 10:41:00 AM PST by uranium penguin
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To: PGR88

He is a Communist. his father is a Marxist College Professor. He was raised a Communist, just like Obama.


33 posted on 02/12/2020 10:41:14 AM PST by Captain Peter Blood (https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/3804407/posts?q=1&;page=61)
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To: Buckeye McFrog

This was aimed at the Iowa caucus (Article had that info which I snipped but could be read at site)...

and sadly the plan seems to have worked in Iowa...

Not enough downstate to pay off Illinois debt IMHO.


34 posted on 02/12/2020 10:41:51 AM PST by Freedom56v2
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To: StAnDeliver
Obama's angry ex-SuperPAC of Ambazzadors started pouring MILLIONS on the dude in December.

I am not surprised. Is there more info on this?

35 posted on 02/12/2020 10:42:00 AM PST by PGR88
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To: Freedom56v2

How about repopulating dc with Americans


36 posted on 02/12/2020 10:42:04 AM PST by mountainlion (Live well for those that did not make it back.)
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To: Freedom56v2
Didn’t Japan do something like this, offering to even pay men to come and impregnate their ladies?
37 posted on 02/12/2020 10:42:10 AM PST by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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To: Freedom56v2

Yeah. We can all vacation in “Little Somalia” without having to leave America...


38 posted on 02/12/2020 10:42:15 AM PST by Gman
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To: Freedom56v2

39 posted on 02/12/2020 10:42:47 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
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To: All
Wait until Sanders or Biden finally moves on Buttigieg:

Read that TIME Mag article from May of 2019 before Butt and Lez Smith locked Queen Fauntleroy up in the attic:

"I want a meal, and he’s like, ‘We’ll just have a handful of nuts.’” Also, Chasten tells his husband, “You do chew really loudly.”

"Chasten handles the dogs, the shopping, the cooking...Chasten hates taking the bin out to the curb. Pete hates the way Chasten folds T-shirts. Chasten gets grumpy when they go too long without food. “You’re like, ‘Oh, here, I packed a bag of almonds and a thing of beef jerky,’” Chasten says. “I hate nuts, and he eats nuts all the time.”

"Buttigieg is musing about redeeming American credibility abroad and sipping from his coffee mug emblazoned with JFK’s face, when his husband plops onto the living-room couch, picks up the blanket next to him and throws it on the floor in mock disgust. “Do we have to have this hideous blanket?” he says. The blanket is full of dog hair. “Can we put our nice blanket there?”

If someone interviewed Chasten for 15 minutes right now TODAY, and excerpted the resulting viral video out to the interwebs, there would be nothing left of Pete but Lis Smith's f@g-h@g, shit-covered, cowboy boot prints on Pete's forehead as she r u n n o f t to embrace Doomberg.
40 posted on 02/12/2020 10:43:05 AM PST by StAnDeliver (CNN's Dana B: "Show of hands: Coverage for undocumented immigrants?" ***all Democrat hands raised***)
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