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Posted on 05/30/2013 6:55:24 AM PDT by IbJensen
One constant we have experienced under the reign of Barack Obama has been government and non-governmental agency (NGO) lies and distortions about the statistical state of our nation. Believing the unemployment numbers, for instance, has become an exercise in suspension of disbelief. The Bureau of Labor Statistics has used a fabricated dysfunctional formula for counting our unemployed neighbors for so long that people have forgotten they are being lied to, if they ever knew the difference.
Recently a new insidious lie was quietly slipped into the public area. Under cover of Obama’s multiple scandals the Brookings Institute, a reliably liberal NGO, proclaimed there are now a million more poor people in our suburbs as compared to our cities.
Our suburbs are being called “ghost towns” to make the lie work and give the appearance that Americans coming back to our cities. This and the other lies about crime and poverty in our suburbs being greater than in our cities serve the great “good” in the sycophant Leftist mind. These lies not only attack the governance of suburbs which are more likely to be conservative and Republican; but they promote and perpetuate the lie that liberalism works and makes our lives better and safer. The truth is that there is nothing true in the Left’s assertion of a better life in our cities. Our suburbs are growing not shrinking. The truth is that the latest demographics show that 75% of those living in our 51 major metropolitan areas live in its suburban portion.
Urban poverty rates are 20.9% versus 11.4% in our suburbs and more likely getting worse.
FBI data shows that cities suffer 3.4 times the amount of violent crime suburban areas experience.
Clearly, the suburbs are not shrinking; do not have more poverty and do have less crime than our cities. So why the lies? A good guess would be a Goebbels-like attempt to spray perfume on the stink holes that decades of Democrat rule have made our cities. How else can the Left explain away Detroit, a city infected by Democrat liberalism?
“Every city is a paradise comrade so shut up and pay your taxes.”
Thanks to Lyndon Bird, the negro father that used to sit proudly at the head of the dining room or kitchen table to eat the food that his wife prepared using his hard-earned wages is no longer there. He was murdered by the 'Great Society' which has turned a very large segment of the population into a filthy,crack using, government money grabbing, sexual animal that procreates with multiple mates and hasn't married any of them.
The 'Great Society' is the diseased society.
Thanks Democrats and Progressives and their fellow communist travelers. Let's get Hillary elected in 2016 and finish off this doomed nation.
Some academic who has produced reams of data proving these clowns are wrong has given them a new name....Density Nostalgists.
Why do people keep animals herded? Easier to control.
cats rule!
The latest figure is an estimate that SIX TRILLION dollars have been spent on The War on Poverty. The result of all socialist government programs is failure and this one is probably the most damaging of all.
I live in a vast metropolis of around 150 people.
Biblical history shows that God’s plan was for people to live on the land, and not clustered up in cities.
I feel a bit convicted, living on the edge of a city on some farm acreage, because I’m comparing myself to Lot, living in a tent towards Sodom.
Cities are totalitarian gulags. They give the tyrants of any age a prime opportunity to CONTROL the masses. Don’t believe me? Look at where the blue is on any state political map. It’s in the cities.
This is just more of the Agenda 21 insanity.
The entire difference can be explained by family structure. Asian cities have them, out cities don't.
I lived in Japan for 14 years and walked through city neighborhoods far more densely populated than anything we have in the United States. Typically, the loudest sound I would hear would be some kid practicing their piano lessons in one of these rabbit hutch sized flats three floors up.
This is almost impossible to believe now, but there actually was a time in America when the cities were "civilized" and civil, and the hinterlands were dangerous. Remember the Old West? Back then eastern cities really were safe . . . and religious.
But then, that was back in the days when "left wing reformers" crusaded against gambling, prostitution, and alcohol!
The Marxist/Leftist ruling class in America wants the suburbs and the countryside to itself. That’s why they want everyone else corralled into the decaying cities of America. These liberal elitists want to play “lord of the manor.” They see themselves as some sort of nobility that has to be genuflected to. The want vast estates surrounded by thousands of acres so as to separate themselves from the unwashed masses.
Sending jobs overseas also added to his demise. I would say that jobs were purposely sent overseas because an increasing number of black men were being hired and becoming part of the middle class. And this would eventually upset the white upper class power structure as successful middle class black men climbed the power ladder and would eventually become leaders. Those in power couldn’t have that, thus the reason for the Great Society to wage war on society and prevent blacks especially and a majority of low income others including whites from having hope that they might suceed through hard work. Along with jobs, morals and virtue are what make a society successful. Remove morals and virtue then who needs jobs, remove jobs and hope then despair can destroy morals and virtue.
So much for reparations - six million dollars for the war on poverty and in the Civil War Between the States, hundreds of thousands lives of white soldiers, both northern and southern as well as a number of black soldiers also both northern and southern.
The Marxist/Leftist ruling class in America wants the suburbs and the countryside to itself. That’s why they want everyone else corralled into the decaying cities of America. These liberal elitists want to play “lord of the manor.” They see themselves as some sort of nobility that has to be genuflected to. The want vast estates surrounded by thousands of acres so as to separate themselves from the unwashed masses.
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This is so true. Using EPA and other regulatory agencies they have taken land away from the people.
they want it to be 1850 England all over again.
If they dont watch their grabbing, it will be 1789 France all over again
You’re daft if you think urban living is what is keeping certain urban populations poor. Just take a look at their poor cousins, still in the Mississippi brush, who didn’t move to Northern cities for work.
I agree, statists want to herd us into cities and onto public transportation for control and resource management, but there is truth to creeping poverty in more suburbs—caused by the Obama economy.
American cities are death traps. That’s why Americans flee them. What should have been citadels of civilization have been turned into dangerous shooting galleries by the nation destroying policies of the the Marxist Democrat Party.
City water and sewer systems. Illegal to drill your own well or septic system.
Public transportation. They can tax you out of your auto and remove parking spaces.
They can even make it illegal to do your own home repairs.
You have to conform to their every wish or you can't survive. They can shut off your heat and elec, your water and septic, and even limit your means of transportation.
Screw the cities and the central planners, I do whatever I want and they can't control me.
If I want to put a rifle range in my yard ( I did) I can. If the power goes out I can fire up the wood burner and a generator.
I can raise/grow my own food and hunt and fish on my property without asking anyone for permission or buying permits.
I'll bet its a lot more than a trillion dollars spent. I've seen estimates of $750 billion per year in Federal outlays just to provide financial/program support for the 'families' created by our 41% illegitimate birth rate. Hard to go through the budget program by program and mine this kind of data though?
Excellent point.
In 2001, I published a book on this trend, calling them "personal baronies." If you look at it carefully, the trend is the reverse of what happened to feudal Europe.
They learned their lesson.
For those who are religious, these pending urban prisons are effectively death traps, exactly pursuant to the curses of Leviticus 26. There is a biblical counter-strategy that is in Lev. 25 and Ex. 23:11. That's the second book.
NYC’s population is somewhat stable but it would be declining if it wasn’t for massive turd world immigration. When the housing bubble crashed the mainstream media predicted white people would ditch their cars and move back into the cities. They were wrong. Leftism’s mental model of reality is so warped that whatever they predict the opposite will happen.
It would seem to me the unions were much more to blame than any racial issue. The unions kept demanding more and more, and companies just couldn't afford it. I don't see race entering the picture at all.
Gen_11:4 Then they said, “Come, let’s build a great city for ourselves with a tower that reaches into the sky. This will make us famous and keep us from being scattered all over the world.”
I think that's a romantic myth on both sides. New York City had murderous gangs in the 19th century, and contrary to myth, there wasn't a daily shoot out in every saloon and town square in the New Mexico territory.
The big cities need the productive working class to support their utopian welfare redistribution schemes. It doesn’t work as well when there is no tax base to exploit as Detroit is now learning.
It is easier to coral and control people in a smaller area.
My great grandfather settled where he did because the remnant of the Indian tribes were safer than the ranchers. As a 14 old boy, that was something his older brothers made him understand.
While both of your theories are certainly plausible, I believe that the simplest explanation is the most likely.
It's just a question of money. Companies could send blue-collar work overseas and get an acceptable product for 10c on the dollar.
Now is the product quality the same? That's dubious. But 'acceptable' will work as far as companies are concerned, so long as consumers continue to purchase what they're selling.
One meme I’ve noticed gaining traction from the left: In the name of halting the evil of “urban sprawl,” they want the government to force everyone into cities from the suburbs. Obviously trying to push us all into ghettos to increase their power and control over our lives.
I don't really care what Liberals think or do. Or what happens to them. They choose their lifestyles, their leaders, their tax structure, their domestic corruption. They get what they allow.
Our criminal statistics are a joke; "Protected" groups are not reported, and what data there is gamed to appear as favorable as possible; if the metropolitan numbers are worse, they report the core city numbers, and vice versa.
New York City? St. Louis? Miami? Chicago? Detroit? Cleveland? Baltimore? Baltimore? Memphis? Atlanta? Buffalo? San Francisco? Los Angeles? Seattle? Oakland? Richmond (CA)? You can have them!
Freudian slip?
"Conflicted" might fit.
That, sadly is precisely the mentality that created the "Great Disaster," and the cure has been worse than the disease.
Liberals uber alles!
Obama and his flying monkeys want to keep it that way!
As for the hundreds of programs to fix the problem? Take a look at what Obama did. Take a good look at the text at the top of this inactive web page.
Check out this link. Many Freepers probably remember it.
Proudly… REALLY BUSH’S FAULT!!
From the archived web page image…
Expect More.gov was an initiative of the George W. Bush administration. This website has been archived and is posted here as an historical resource. It has not been updated since the end of 2008 and links to many external websites and some internal pages will not work.
So much for Hussein transparency! This Expect More site graded All Federal Programs by department. All Thousands of them. Can’t have troublemakers verify that at least half of decades-old programs got failing grades! AND WE STILL HAVE MOST OF THEM!!
Perhaps one of our patriotic White House Correspondents can ask Hussein the simple question...
WHY WAS THE WHITE HOUSE "EXPECT MORE" WEB SITE REMOVED IN LATE 2008?
There should be a 10% tax on rent. But only on the first 2 months. The cities will grow fat because the majority can’t leave.
There are 2 million apartments in NYC. If the average apartment costs 500 a month(going low due to low income housing) the first 2 months would bring in 100 per apartment or 200 million a year.
Surprised the rats haven’t figured that one out yet.
They could say its for the children.
City slicker. I haven't got a neighbor for miles.
The best thing about where I live is the fact that I have a party store 150 yards away, I’m on the shore of a lake and only 1 of my 3 neighbors actually lives there.
Convicted is what I meant, as in “convicted by the Holy Spirit”...
In the cities liberals dominate economic, political and thug power and that is why they want everyone living under them in cities.
As we see in Chicago and Philadelphia, it is very dangerous for whites to live in liberal city land due to their love of diversity racism. They permit gangs of racists to attack whites with no or extremely low and just for show, consequences.
They consider whites, outside the liberal ruling class, to be their economic, political and social enemy. They discriminate against whites in opportunity and they beleive, as Holder told Congress, that whites have lessor rights as a race than do Blacks. He explained this to Congress as they investigated the Democrats using the Black Pathers to racially intimidate at the polls in Philadelphia.
It’s all about Agenda 21 & making the crowds easier to control. The Nazi’s rounding up Jews into WWII ghettos is perfect example.
Oh, my. How do you stand the crowds?
I only wish I were so lucky. My town has about 40,000.
I visited a friend in Morehead Kentucky, and almost bought land there (cheap), in 1995. The president of the bank there told me the average household income there was 16K at that time. By national standards, they were “poor”. I knew of people in Kalifornia on unemployment and welfare making more than that.
There was no grafiti in town, no gangs, no slums, and fairly low crime. (A little moonshine makin’ going on). One of the biggest lies told is that poverty is the cause of crime.
Good point!
What a serene place! I love the color of your shed. Do you happen to know the color name/#? I’d love to paint my barn that color.
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