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Jerry Brown's War on California Suburbs
By JOEL KOTKIN
July 19, 2008; Page A7In the 1960s, California Gov. Edmund Gerald "Pat" Brown laid the foundation for building modern, suburban California with massive new highway projects and one of the most significant public water projects in history. The resulting infrastructure gave us broad, low-density developments with room for millions of Californians to have a home with a backyard and two cars in the driveway.
Those were the good old days. Today, Pat Brown's son Jerry is waging war on the very communities his father helped make possible. Why? Global warming.
Jerry Brown has been a fixture of the state's politics for more than three decades. ... in 2006, he was elected attorney general. Today he is mulling a run for governor in 2010, when he will be 72.
In the meantime, Mr. Brown is taking aim at the suburbs, concerned about the alleged environmental damage they cause. He sees suburban houses as inefficient users of energy. He sees suburban commuters clogging the roads as wasting precious fossil fuel. And, mostly, he sees wisdom in an intricately thought-out plan to compel residents to move to city centers or, at least, to high-density developments clustered near mass transit lines.
Mr. Brown is not above using coercion to create the demographic patterns he wants. In recent months, he has threatened to file suit against municipalities that shun high-density housing in favor of building new suburban singe-family homes, on the grounds that they will pollute the environment. He is also backing controversial legislation -- Senate bill 375 -- moving through the state legislature that would restrict state highway funds to communities that refuse to adopt "smart growth" development plans. "We have to get the people from the suburbs to start coming back" to the cities, Mr. Brown told planning experts in March.
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As long as the voters keep voting for DemoFascists, this is what will be engineered for them. Take yer medicine and shut up about it.
FYI Ping
Jerry still embracing the Soviet model, apparently.
Brown is an idiot. I love the fact that my town is not high-density. Heck, we’re one of the last Bay Area towns that hasn’t packed them in on the hillsides.
Reminds one of the Khmer Rouge...
Was it in the 34 Undeniable Truths of Life that it was first stated that ‘liberalism is about spreading misery equally’??
Liberals seem hell bent on making sure that there is nobody out there who is allowed to be happier than they are. And that is hard since they all seem to be complaining about something virtually every day of their lives. When was the last time Jerry Brown made news being happy about anything?
They kill three birds with one stone: Force the proletariat into the localized city surveillance centers, protect the environment by ending the Bourgeoisie's development and rape of our planet, and require everyone to rely on the government's approved means of transport.
Give it ten years or so under Obama and those of us who don't live in the big cities in this nation will be regarded as brain-eating zombies bent on destroying their great social plan. We must be eliminated!
Oh wait, that's the way they regard us now.
More evidence that Californicate’s government is broken.
Just curious. Does he live in the city? Does he travel by bus to work?
After all comrade Brown should lead by example. I am sure there is a studio apt. ready for him in Sacramento.
Actually since he is such hero to the proletariat...he could get a 2 Bedroom / 1 Bath condo.
communist in thought and action
After all comrade Brown should lead by example. I am sure there is a studio apt. ready for him in Sacramento.
Actually since he is such a hero to the proletariat...he could get a 2 Bedroom / 1 Bath condo.
Lord of the Medflies strikes again. Only California could be so d*mn dumb as to elect this communist fool to anything.
Why do we even post stories ABOUT California? The whole state is certified nuts.
The primary evidence, the essential necessary evidence, that the greenhouse effect, and by extension CO2, is causing global warming doesn't exist. If the planet is warming this is proof positive that it isn't because of the greenhouse effect.
No Smoking Hot Spot (The Australian)
This is a short and easily understandable article showing the plain truth. The hinge pin that links global temperature to the greenhouse effect is missing. It is easily measurable and hundreds of probes have done so.
Written by the man who "DEVOTED six years to carbon accounting, building models for the Australian Greenhouse Office."
