Move on in. Your government approved housing awaits!
When Dr. Dave mentioned bulldozing cities, a light bulb went off. Sustainable Development! You know, that plan that herds us all into government managed utopias with vastly reduced standards of living? Won’t it be great? I mean the government will tell you where to live, where to work, how much you’ll be paid, if you can drive, (if you’re lucky enough) what you can drive, what you can eat, you’re heating and cooling settings, your medical care, in other words…
THE COMPLETE CONTROL OF ALL HUMAN LIFE!
Now, the libtards would never admit to this, and, as usual, they are implementing their plans incrementally. A little here, a “shared sacrifice” there, a “hard decision” a few years from now, and low and behold, you’re on the government plantation, and there is NO escape.
Yeah, I know “LOL, yer a kook!” But look it up. The information is out there. Also, I can always reference my favorite Sustainable Stupidity quote…
Canadian oil billionaire Maurice Strong, Secretary General at the Rio de Janeiro United Nations 1992 Conference on Environment and Development, expressed the goal of Sustainable Development by declaring a partial list of what is not sustainable:
“…current life-styles and consumption patterns of the affluent middle-class [e.g. Americans]-involving high meat intake [e.g. cattle production], use of fossil fuels [e.g. air and auto travel], industrial and consumer products, appliances [e.g. refrigeration] home and work air-conditioning and suburban housing are not sustainable.” (emphasis added)
So, even if you don’t believe my rant, will you believe Mr. Strong?
Now, it’s the incrementalism that we have to look out for. That’s why Dr. Dave’s comments hit me. To illustrate, take a look at this.
The US government is looking at expanding a pioneering scheme in Flint, one of the poorest US cities, which involves razing entire districts and returning the land to nature.
The government looking at expanding a pioneering scheme in Flint, one of the poorest US cities, which involves razing entire districts and returning the land to nature.
Local politicians believe the city must contract by as much as 40 per cent, concentrating the dwindling population and local services into a more viable area.
“Concentrating the dwindling population into a more viable area.” How exactly do you plan to do that? How are you going to ‘”coerce” people into moving where you want them to be? What gives you the right to decide where, or even if, the population should be concentrated?
Most are former industrial cities in the “rust belt” of America’s Mid-West and North East. They include Detroit, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Baltimore and Memphis.
In Detroit, shattered by the woes of the US car industry, there are already plans to split it into a collection of small urban centres separated from each other by countryside.
“The real question is not whether these cities shrink – we’re all shrinking – but whether we let it happen in a destructive or sustainable way,” said Mr Kildee. “Decline is a fact of life in Flint. Resisting it is like resisting gravity.” (Emphasis added)
Where to start? First, the decline is due to liberal policies; from the labor unions that chased the auto industry out, to environmental regulations that harmed the auto industry as a whole. Finally, tax policy, failing schools, high crime, and the usual Demonrat thug machine probably did the rest.
Also, they use the term sustainable. While that, in and of itself, is relatively harmless-it’s one of the new buzz words, after all! The idea to form small, self contained residential areas is part of the overall Sustainable Stupidity plan. The idea is to centralize population, government services, and business into a self contained, centrally controlled gulag for the sheeple. In these areas will be your government schools, government health care, government jobs, and infrastructure. All of it will be centrally planned, managed and controlled. This, clearly, is a step in that direction.
Flint, sixty miles north of Detroit, was the original home of General Motors. The car giant once employed 79,000 local people but that figure has shrunk to around 8,000.
Unemployment is now approaching 20 per cent and the total population has almost halved to 110,000.
The exodus – particularly of young people – coupled with the consequent collapse in property prices, has left street after street in sections of the city almost entirely abandoned.
Again, liberal policies and activities destroyed the area. Young people leave for places where there are JOBS and OPPORTUNITY. If you doubt the deserted nature of the area, Google Earth is an eye-opener.
Regarded as a model city in the motor industry’s boom years, Flint may once again be emulated, though for very different reasons.
But Mr Kildee, who has lived there nearly all his life, said he had first to overcome a deeply ingrained American cultural mindset that “big is good” and that cities should sprawl – Flint covers 34 square miles.
He said: “The obsession with growth is sadly a very American thing. Across the US, there’s an assumption that all development is good, that if communities are growing they are successful. If they’re shrinking, they’re failing.”
“If they’re shrinking, they’re failing.” This is TRUE! Development and expansion ARE signs of success you twit! If these areas were actually successful, why did so many people leave? Notice the attempt to redefine failure as success. Liberals destroy an economy and cause most of the population to leave, and they try to define this as success? If they spun any faster, they’d break the sound barrier!
UPDATE: I forgot something here. The liberals create crises, then exploit them for their own gain. They destroy something, blame capitalism and/or conservatives and use it as a justification to expand their own power-at our expense, of course.
Flint’s recovery efforts have been helped by a new state law passed a few years ago which allowed local governments to buy up empty properties very cheaply.
They could then knock them down or sell them on to owners who will occupy them. The city wants to specialise in health and education services, both areas which cannot easily be relocated abroad.
Much of the Sustainable Stupidity plans are being implemented at the local level. To enable this, zoning laws have been changed in many parts of the US, and laws that allow local governments to take property more easily are part of that. To redefine where people live, work, and travel, you need to give governments at all levels the ability to “herd” the people, incrementally, to where you want them to be. It starts by either restricting building, or making it so expensive or difficult, that almost no one will want to try. Then, they create “incentives” to abandon personal transportation, like high fuel prices, making cars too expensive, and so on. To follow up, they create plans like the one described here – destroy neighborhoods in order to ensure that people move where the authorities want.
The specialization in certain services or industries is one of the hallmarks of Sustainable Stupidity. As with this particular plan, there are to be communities that are self contained and government controlled. They are to be connected by public transportation. Eventually, cars and roads will be things of the past-too much freedom of mobility there. People will be “assigned” by government officials, to jobs, services, and the like.
The city is buying up houses in more affluent areas to offer people in neighbourhoods it wants to demolish. Nobody will be forced to move, said Mr Kildee.
Did you work for years to work towards a nice home? Did you pick a neighborhood that was safe, and had good schools? Don’t worry, the government will move the crime to you! In the socialist future, there will be only two classes; government minions, and YOU! Best to break up that whole “success” thing by ruining the few remaining good neighborhoods!
People won’t be forced to move. That’s true, at least at first. Initially, the program will proceed by restricting building, and cutting off services to selected areas. If you want to live in an area that is to be returned to nature, you can. Just don’t expect roads, schools, utilities, police and fire coverage, and the like. Most people will “choose” to move into the lovely “sustainable villages” set up by the government. Remember the minion that talked about “coercing” people? Do you see what I mean?
Remember, the liberals don’t always ban things out of hand. They restrict, reduce, regulate, and coerce. They do all of these, and do them a little at a time. They hope is that you don’t realize it until it’s too late. Of course, they have the Legion of Doom to sell it to the sheeple.
For more information on Sustainable Stupidity, kindly look here, or here.
Also, take a look at this article where a minion admits that coersion is a part of the government’s playbook.
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Matt
I believe that future generations should have the same opportunities that myself, and those that came before me, had. My parents taught me that I could do anything I wanted to do. I don’t want to have to tell my daughter, “You can do whatever the government tells you to do.” We are at a crossroads in this country; are we going to be free, or are we going to be slaves to the nanny state. I choose freedom.
Small urban plantations surrounded by vast “greenways”–where people are forbidden to go–are all part of the UN’s “Man in the Biosphere” project. Look it up.
While the vast majority of the sheeple are too stupid to see what the socialist in Washington are doing–even they will wake up when they are told they have no choice but to obey the dictates of some minor bureaucrat from Brussels.
Yeah, I really didn’t want to throw in the Man in the Biosphere topic. I had already used too few words for a complex topic. Lesson: Don’t blog when you’re too tired, and too ticked off.