Posted on 08/05/2012 4:38:05 PM PDT by Syncro
Not exactly, but Obama is already working to get rid of them.
Editor’s Note: This article is adapted from Spreading the Wealth: How Obama is Robbing the Suburbs to Pay for the Cities, by Stanley Kurtz, from Sentinel HC.
President Obama is not a fan of America’s suburbs. Indeed, he intends to abolish them. With suburban voters set to be the swing constituency of the 2012 election, the administration’s plans for this segment of the electorate deserve scrutiny. Obama is a longtime supporter of “regionalism,” the idea that the suburbs should be folded into the cities, merging schools, housing, transportation, and above all taxation. To this end, the president has already put programs in place designed to push the country toward a sweeping social transformation in a possible second term. The goal: income equalization via a massive redistribution of suburban tax money to the cities.
Obama’s plans to undercut the political and economic independence of America’s suburbs reach back decades. The community organizers who trained him in the mid-1980s blamed the plight of cities on taxpayer “flight” to suburbia. Beginning in the mid-1990s, Obama’s mentors at the Gamaliel Foundation (a community-organizing network Obama helped found) formally dedicated their efforts to the budding fight against suburban “sprawl.” From his positions on the boards of a couple of left-leaning Chicago foundations, Obama channeled substantial financial support to these efforts. On entering politics, he served as a dedicated ally of his mentors’ anti-suburban activism.
The alliance endures. One of Obama’s original trainers, Mike Kruglik, has hived off a new organization called Building One America, which continues Gamaliel’s anti-suburban crusade under another name. Kruglik and his close allies, David Rusk and Myron Orfield, intellectual leaders of the “anti-sprawl” movement, have been quietly working with the Obama administration for years on an ambitious program of social reform.
Excerpt, read more at National Review
They are working on moving the rural dwellers also.
Fortunately Obama has no such power to merge anything with anything.
Will backfire very big time.
Rush had a segment on this on his Thursday show. It was interesting to listen to.
I really can’t stand people with big ideas on how to make “society” (us) better.
My idea on how to improve our lives is to take folks like that to the wall.
Obama’s mission in life is to assassinate America...pass it on.
Just read the book. The author explains the origins of much Marxist rhetoric about light rail, carpooling, sustaining, “urban sprawl’, etc Marists hate all things that relate to individual choice and freedom.
An American should never ever vote for a democRAT!
Check Agenda 21 in Wikipedia. It is already moving apace nationwide...
If people of Connecticut, who like local control (no county government), isn’t afraid of this, it is a lost cause. CT freepers, spread the word.
“Check Agenda 21 in Wikipedia. It is already moving apace nationwide...”
Yes, and check your communities for any green and/or “sustainability” programs.
“Check Agenda 21 in Wikipedia. It is already moving apace nationwide...”
Yes, and check your communities for any green and/or “sustainability” programs.
Ubama enslaved the white devil.
If you think this is the work of Obama, you haven’t been paying attention for the last two decades. The socialists and urban planners have been dreaming this for decades. Read up on smart growth and suburban sprawl. Couple this with the lunatics whole think too many people populate the planet and an elite that buys into this and you have a grim future.
‘Assassinate’ is a bit too obvious. SABOTAGE is a better word.
For many years federal and state government regulations have been piling up to make it more and more difficult for a traditional small family farm to stay afloat.
I have always thought it was more than a coincidence that stringent regulations were forcing these really small farms to shut down.
My grandparents had to shut down their small dairy farm and give it up because the renovations and equipment the government required for the cows and to handle and store the milk would cost more than the farm was valued at.
And the government environmental people were making them shut down the spring fed water cooler where they had always cooled and stored the raw milk. In their younger days they sold raw milk, cream and butter direct from the farm to the consumer but of course the government (working hand-in-glove with the big dairy co-ops) put a stop to that.
Could you be anymore condescending???
I didn't write the book.
Did you see this part?
One of Obama’s original trainers, Mike Kruglik, has hived off a new organization called Building One America, which continues Gamaliel’s anti-suburban crusade under another name. Kruglik and his close allies, David Rusk and Myron Orfield, intellectual leaders of the “anti-sprawl” movementI've been paying attention for the last 15 decades, the part before I was born through history.
This has been in the works for a lot longer than the two decades you mention.
They want to tax and regulate all of us into the cities.
And keep making our money more worthless, and more people on food stamps and unemployment.
So we can be dependant on the government.
Can you imagine how they could control the masses just by shutting off utilities for a couple of days in a densly occupied part of a city?
Some of those giant apartment skyscrapers must have thousands of people in them.
A couple of days with out elec, gas etc and people will get pertty antsy.
Expecially those on the top floors that don’t do stairs that well.
Keep you shirt on. That was a rhetorical question.
Sure, all modern socialist ideas have their roots in beliefs way before two decades ago. But the fact is they have been actually implementing them only recently. They are tearing up perfectly good roads to put jetties, bumps, and bends in them along with bike lanes to make them undrivable. they are actually getting Caucasians to have fewer children. They are elevating bugs above development of natural resources. They are actually making progress after sane people put a deaf ear and blind eye to their activities. They are zombies. Obama didn't invent this crap. His leftist handlers are using him to speed up the program.
Keep you shirt on. That was a rhetorical question.
Sure, all modern socialist ideas have their roots in beliefs way before two decades ago. But the fact is they have been actually implementing them only recently. They are tearing up perfectly good roads to put jetties, bumps, and bends in them along with bike lanes to make them undrivable. they are actually getting Caucasians to have fewer children. They are elevating bugs above development of natural resources. They are actually making progress after sane people put a deaf ear and blind eye to their activities. They are zombies. Obama didn't invent this crap. His leftist handlers are using him to speed up the program.
I rarely buy political books (FR is a very complete source) but my copy of this one is in the mail from Amazon.
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