Posted on 02/24/2019 10:06:41 AM PST by grundle
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s Green New deal calls to
retrofit every building in America
and guarantees everyone the right to
Safe, affordable, adequate housing
“Every building in America” means you can’t opt out. You have to let the government employees into your home so they can do whatever Ocasio-Cortez wants them to do.
The government retrofitting every building in the country would be heavily invasive into people’s private lives. Think of all the horrible things that TSA employees have gotten away with while knowing they they can’t be fired, such as sexual assault of women and children, humiliation of people with medical conditions, and theft and destruction of people’s personal property.
Imagine these same kinds of government employees coming into every home in the country while knowing they can’t be fired. Imagine what they would do to people and to people’s property.
Now, regarding the promise to provide “safe, affordable, adequate housing to everyone,” I’d like to point out what government controlled housing is actually like in the real world.
In the four minute video posted below, the housing conditions at a three bedroom apartment at a public housing project in the Bronx in New York City are absolutely horrible.
There are rats, roaches, and black mold.
There are leaks in every room.
And every time the tenant calls maintenance to ask for repairs, the government employees always make up some bogus excuse for why they can’t fix anything.
And why should the government employees fix anything, when they know they can’t get fired?
And as all of this is going on, the federal government is giving them $30 million per week to make these repairs.
Since they’re not actually making these repairs, what are they really spending that money on?
The video also says that at other apartments in the same building, sometimes there is no heat, sometimes there is no hot water, and sometimes there is even no running water at all.
Here’s the video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pz9PJOrDaXk
Leftists think they know how to run everyone’s lives for them.
Busybodies run amuck.
Meanwhile their own lives are Dumpster Fires.
“public” government owned housing given to folks seems by the video to equal Orwells 1984 ‘prole’ housing. NYC seems to have a heads up on the novel.
In some ways I feel sorry for AOC. The leftist think she’s brilliant. The right thinks she’s crazy (and/or dangerous). But both groups pay attention to what she says, though for different reasons. This makes her think she’s pretty hot sh*t.
She’s kind of the anti-Chance Gardner.
I wonder what type of housing she considers “adequate housing” for herself?
How come no one has ever promised this before?
The Dems. lead by Socialist Sanders and company, keep promising everyone free this and that. Who is going to pay for what they promise the sheeple voters? Who is going to work hard to pay higher and higher taxes? Sanders gets rich on offering tax funded goodies. There are others now following his formula to promote Socialism.
Oh wow. How come nothing has been done about this? What corruption. And, New York Democrats want to tell the rest of US how to live. Really? This is fuel for revolution.
Alinsky rule #11: "If you push a negative hard and deep enough it will break through into its counterside."
Prison state. Everyone will be a happy camper. Or else.
Did she give the Republic of San Francisco as an example of rent controls working?
“safe, affordable, adequate housing” = a one-bedroom apartment in a high-rise, as in the old Soviet Union.
hopefully the voters of NY will show her who the real boss is and elect not to reelect her
The residents are at least equally to blame.
[[She’s kind of the anti-Chance Gardner.]]
She and socialists like her are the kinds of people that wait until people build a beautiful healthy productive garden, then they march in and stomp all over the vegetables and fruits, and destroy the garden, all while telling us how wonderful their new mess is-
There was a 70s show called Good Times. The show was set in the Cabrini Green Federal Housing projects. Needless to say. There were no “good times” there. It was and still is. A Hell Hole.
Constitutionally low-information AOC has evidently never learned that the states have never expressly constitutionally given the feds the specific power to tax and spend on behalf of the poor. This is evidenced by the following excerpts from writings by state sovereignty-respecting Supreme Court justices and a constitutional lawmaker.
"Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States."Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
"The power to regulate manufactures, not having been confided to congress, they have no more right to act upon it, than they have to interfere with the systems of education, the poor laws, or the road laws, of the states [emphases added]." —Joseph Story, Article 1, Section 8, Clause 1, Commentaries on the Constitution 2
”... the care of the property, the liberty, and the life of the citizen, under the solemn sanction of an oath imposed by your Federal Constitution, is in the States, and not in the Federal Government [emphases added].” —Rep. John Bingham, Congressional Globe, 1866. (See about middle of 3rd column.)
"It is one of the happy incidents of the federal system that a single courageous State may, if its citizens choose, serve as a laboratory; and try novel social and economic experiments without risk to the rest of the country.” — Justice Brandeis, Laboratories of democracy.
”From the accepted doctrine that the United States is a government of delegated powers, it follows that those not expressly granted, or reasonably to be implied from such as are conferred, are reserved to the states, or to the people. To forestall any suggestion to the contrary, the Tenth Amendment was adopted. The same proposition, otherwise stated, is that powers not granted are prohibited [emphasis added].” —United States v. Butler, 1936.
So misguided AOC is trying to unconstitutionally expand the already unconstitutionally big federal government’s powers.
AOC should have run for a state office so that she can exercise 10th Amendment-protected state powers to do the things that she wants to do for the poor, as the founding fathers had intended for local and state government leaders, not the feds, to do.
But she would first need to support PJDT in leading the states to put a stop to unconstitutional federal taxes, taxes that the corrupt, post-17th Amendment ratification Congress cannot justify under its constitutional Article I, Section 8-limited powers — no power to provide housing for the poor — so that the states can ultimately find new revenues to take care of the poor.
Gosh.
If people could eat bullshit,
The Democrats could feed the world!
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