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Meet TOD: The Way Obama Wants You to Live
National Review ^ | August 12, 2013 | Stanley Kurtz

Posted on 08/14/2013 6:14:44 PM PDT by Twotone

It will come as a surprise to most Americans that President Obama wants to change the shape of our homes and neighborhoods. So how does Obama hope to make us live? The short answer is, “like sardines.” At least that what the libertarian Pacific Legal Foundation said as it filed a lawsuit last week against the Obama-supported bureaucrats who created “Plan Bay Area,” an ambitious blueprint to block the creation of new suburbs and force the next 30 years of development in the nine-county San Francisco metropolitan region into a few hyper-dense, Manhattan-style enclaves.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: agenda21; planbayarea; regionalism; sanfrancisco; tod
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1 posted on 08/14/2013 6:14:44 PM PDT by Twotone
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To: TEXOKIE

Another Agenda 21 ping...


2 posted on 08/14/2013 6:15:04 PM PDT by Twotone (Marte Et Clypeo)
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To: Twotone

Didn’t we already try, and then abandon, high-density ‘projects’, like ? Green in Chicago? Why try that failed path again?


3 posted on 08/14/2013 6:22:08 PM PDT by expat2
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To: Twotone

Hey, California voted overwhelmingly for him...TWICE. So, California can enjoy the consequences.


4 posted on 08/14/2013 6:22:50 PM PDT by ought-six ( Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule.)
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To: expat2

That would be Cabrini Green.


5 posted on 08/14/2013 6:23:42 PM PDT by ought-six ( Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule.)
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To: Twotone

Actually, this is likely to be counter-productive. The proposed removal of parking near train/subway stations will just drive businesses and employees out of the cities and into the suburbs and cause the cities to become Detroit even faster.


6 posted on 08/14/2013 6:28:32 PM PDT by expat2
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To: ought-six

Thanks - that is the word I was looking for.


7 posted on 08/14/2013 6:29:27 PM PDT by expat2
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To: Twotone

Remember all the overcrowded, falling down, concrete blockhouses that were a feature of Stalin’s Moscow? Sort of like “Cabrini Green” on steroids.


8 posted on 08/14/2013 6:31:40 PM PDT by Don Corleone ("Oil the gun..eat the cannoli. Take it to the Mattress.")
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To: Twotone

Agenda 21.


9 posted on 08/14/2013 7:09:13 PM PDT by Signalman
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To: expat2

“Why try that failed path again?”

Like most Progressives, “because they can”.


10 posted on 08/14/2013 7:30:58 PM PDT by RetiredTexasVet (The only growth industries left under Progressives are government and poverty.)
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To: Twotone

TOD - sounds like Julia’s mook emo boyfriend.


11 posted on 08/14/2013 7:32:10 PM PDT by Disambiguator
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To: Twotone; All

Partial Government control is Socialism.

There is partial Liberty with Socialism.

Total Government control is Communism.

There is no Liberty with Communism.

Conservatives are dedicated to conserving Liberty.

The Federal politicians who support whole or partial Government control are either Socialists or Communists.

Conservatives should not donate money or time to these Socialists or Communists.


12 posted on 08/14/2013 8:34:14 PM PDT by Graewoulf (Traitor John Roberts' Commune-Style Obama'care' violates U.S. Constitution AND Anti-Trust Law.)
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To: Twotone

Bingo! That’s exactly what it is.

Farms and ranches have been taken over by big corporations. That will make it easier for the government to take them. Personally, I think the government already owns a bunch of farm and ranch land.


13 posted on 08/14/2013 8:37:46 PM PDT by VerySadAmerican (When you vote for evil because you can't see evil, you ARE evil.)
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To: Twotone

The truth and dual purpose behind the Zimmerman persecution.
There are two reasons why the Zimmerman case was useful to forward part of the socialist agenda and part of it rests on this socialist concept.

It’s the second time the President of the United States has interjected himself into a confrontation between those in authority on legal grounds reasonably questioned and released someone involved in a curious activity in a patrolled area. Could this attitude be based from the idealized communist concept that there is no such thing as “private” property because the state (collective) owns the land ? http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3042477/posts

Zimmerman and those “gated” communities was used to be the egg that is to be broken,. sacrificed, so that we have an omlet..

Just like Stalin did to the Ukrainian land owners known as Kulacks whom he executed, (and used that egg example) in a soclal engineering plan to organize collectives during a Russian drought..Because as we have learned there seems to be the intention to use a collective data base to create collectives.where a utopia of uniforimity of conformity exists. As was done in Detroit, and Oakland California.only this time a poor whitey or blacky won’t be able to move. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3053314/posts.

Just as with the energy plan where the cost of fuel used for energy and transportation and that includes raising the price of transporting gas and oil by rail, that favors a key contributer (Buffett) while the regime has been recently ridiculing the impact the completion of a pipeline, has skyrocketed those costs. Placing many on fixed or limited incomes dependent on government handouts. Resulting from this regimes socialist policies which go blameless. Now call for the sacrifice of Zimmerman who must die for another communist plan.. We all move together in centers designed and approved by comrades running the collective who (just like Obamacare aren’t in it) won’t ever live there.

But there is another objective more sinister objective when they painted a target on his back and it is this..

What better way to cover up Bengahzi, Fast and furious, IRS, Wind and Solar panel gate, NSA spying on US, Over-riding the constittution? Don’t look into who accompaines Obama on his many trips around the world at taxpayer expence ? Were they the heavy hitters or their friends holding the president’s hand ? Never looked into either by the House and certainly not even speculated about or reported on by the media. Seems like that could be considered pay back at US taxpayer expence. Isn’t that an impeachable offense ?

Now if somebody even suggests impeachment.. Pick on some security guard just doing his job. Accuse him of being racist ,even though he is part black, but his last name sounds “jewish.”Who’s doing surveilance in an mixed race area of modest means a where there’s been robberies and burgalries by young blacks. Now call that surveilance stalking, the area he’s patrolling owned by rich whities,and the guard of course white . Make that person he’s watching a 10 year old black kid and a saint ,not six foot two 165 pound 16 year old, who gets killed fighting over a gun. . Now put a target on the security guards back . Firing up his base whom he done nothing for to the extent that racial strife has increased 10 fold. What better way to discourage any investigation into malfeasance and corruption by organizing the base for riots in the streets ? To some that may sound far fetched but that’s the way socialists operate. Ain’t that neat ? And it’s working! http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3051588/posts

To date the political opposition has yet to mention or comment on this example of how this regime operates


14 posted on 08/14/2013 11:52:23 PM PDT by mosesdapoet (Serious contribution pause.Please continue onto meaningless venting no one reads.)
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To: ought-six; Twotone

I’ve seen some of these “transit villages” (read: hives) in the SF Bay Area: Pleasant Hill BART station area and Fruitvale BART station area. They’re ugly and I can’t imagine anyone WANTING to live there when more attractive single-family residences aren’t too far away.

I don’t like the look or sound of coercion, no matter how attractively packaged.


15 posted on 08/15/2013 12:02:31 AM PDT by thecodont
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To: Twotone

I am living right in the middle of this TOD nightmare. At the end of my street they are putting lots of affordable work and live units and it is part of the TOD. My neighborhood has been here since the 1950’s it has about 500 single family homes but now we have about 300 new neighbors and they are for low income. It is crap. They took out a race track that had been here for over 30 years and the people wanted to keep it but the City Council opted for the TOD. San mateo sucks.


16 posted on 08/15/2013 12:08:16 AM PDT by funfan
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To: Twotone

bookmark


17 posted on 08/15/2013 12:19:46 AM PDT by Pajamajan (Pray for our nation. Thank the Lord for everything you have. Don't wait. Do it today.)
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To: funfan; Twotone
They took out a race track that had been here for over 30 years and the people wanted to keep it but the City Council opted for the TOD. San mateo sucks.

Ouch, that's why they tore down Bay Meadows? To build hive housing? Yeesh.

18 posted on 08/15/2013 12:42:57 AM PDT by thecodont
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To: Twotone

Thanks for the ping, Twotone!


19 posted on 08/15/2013 9:09:44 AM PDT by TEXOKIE (We must surrender only to our Holy God and never to the evil that has befallen us.)
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To: expat2; Twotone

“Didn’t we already try, and then abandon, high-density ‘projects’, like ? Green in Chicago? Why try that failed path again?”

Liberals ARE crazy, and always do the same thing over and over again expecting a different result, which of course, is the definition of insanity.

They seem to think that the failures are because of the wrong people being in charge, or the people not being compliant enough, or not bright enough to catch their vision...or any other reason or excuse other than whatever they are proposing is just a terrible idea.


20 posted on 08/15/2013 10:57:55 AM PDT by TEXOKIE (We must surrender only to our Holy God and never to the evil that has befallen us.)
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