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In the first step towards President Obama's income inequality fight, he is unveiling "Promise Zones" today... we can't wait to hear this one..."Promise Zones are a new way of doing business,” the administration official said. “They will be led by local community leadership working toward a common goal … supported by the federal government.” Participants will get priority for federal grants and help applying from an array of agencies. Wonderful, sounds great - how are we paying for that again?
Via Reuters,
President Barack Obama is set to speak on Thursday about how he will target job creation, housing, law enforcement and education in the poorest U.S. communities, part of his pledge to narrow the gap between rich and poor in America.
Obama signaled last month that he plans a new focus this year on income inequality, which he called “the defining challenge of our time”, pushing to raise the minimum wage and find new ways to help poor children break out of the cycle of poverty.
As part of this effort, Obama will create “promise zones” in San Antonio, Philadelphia, Los Angeles, southeastern Kentucky, and the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma, the White House said on Wednesday.
The announcement came on the 50th anniversary of a pledge by former President Lyndon Johnson to wage a “war on poverty” which led to government programs like Medicare, Medicaid, food stamps, and Head Start preschool education programs.
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The designation is designed to help communities navigate programs that already exist, said Megan Martin, a policy analyst at the Center for the Study of Social Policy in Washington.
“A lot of what they’re offering is in fact not funding – they’re offering direct contact with the federal government, high-quality technical assistance, up-to-date tools and resources for sites to use,” Martin said in an interview.
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A Promise Zone sounds like something that involves Sandra Fluke's vagina.
I'm stealing that. : )
the fluke is not Sandra...
so does this mean they are turning them into indian reservations? first in line for bullshit govt money, and the worst hellholes on earth. that is the way of govt dependecny. this whole fucking country used to be a promise zones, and still could be if the central planners and gov would just get out of the way
Promise Zones = Districts in The Hunger Games
Doubling down on bull shit. Yeah yeah that's the story that's the ticket. We Gona get the shit promised out of us again
San Antonio? Who da guessed.
Driving in on I-10 and 90 the whole East Side looks worse than Detroit. Abandoned cars, gang logos everywhere, every billboard in mexicano including the ones for Job Force and places to get free baby care.
Hispanics have truly arrived into US culture in San Antonio. They are completely engulfed in the bread and circuses of the NBA (Los Spurs), tribalism for their race in their city (Castro brothers painted on a mural at Pico De Gallo restaraunt), and how to evaluate "prosperity" (government funded improvements to their city).
Oh and then there's this:
http://www.sa2020.org/
And this:
http://bexarbibliotech.org/
http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/business/2014/01/04/san-antonio-book...
( Quiet Weapons for a Silent War ring any bells? www.lawfulpath.com/ref/sw4qw/ )
San Antonio is a town of FUCKING RETARDS
Ohhhhh. So that's what they'll call the FEMA camps.
it seems a promise is a promise only with Viagra. Surprising Pres. Obama has not tapped Regional Export Councils that have been around for more than 30 years and worthless. Just more jawboning which unfortunately is only thing left other than Federal Reserve which is doing all it can to weaken US dollar to bolster economy and exports. The problem is systemically global in nature and beyond any regional political promises.
Is it possible for the the swirling water to go FTL?
Official Corporate Headquarters Zones
Promised Zones : Affirmative Action spelt differently.
Its a return to big state trying to balance the social see-saw which has tilted to beyond -270 Celsius under Reaganista neo liberalism. The deep freeze of Oligarchy squeeze; don't sneeze, its no use 'cos you belong to the Big Pharma lobby!
When the MSM finds that ZH reported shadow banking underperformance plays are in fact Commie conspiracy plays to ROB the 1%, you know you are in the land of totally bent, spent, delusional tea party puritans, drunk on 2nd Amendment, traumatised into believing Oligachy is run by aliens manipulated by Chinese Commies and ready to be tied to the stake of libertarian redemption like born again evangelicals to save USa from the Krugmanist alien :
Are hedge funds run by communists? - Brett Arends's ROI - MarketWatch
Now this beats even the crazy Libertarian creed of ZH ! Wowie, capitalism at its best!
Commie is not what Commie does but what "presumption of culpability" fantasizes! Orson would be proud of you in his sleight of hand exponentialised.
Can't get more reverse or inverted Orwellian than that!
Huh?
You obviously have upped your dosage today, Falak.
the entry zone on Obammy spiel was a hors d'oeuvre for "le plat de resistance": the Marketwatch take on HFs ; priceless.
You know Akak that Colorado now challenges Helmund Afghanistan Taliban land as capital of hashish?
The world is truly round and I'm not the only one drinking chardonnay!
So this is how they are rebranding FEMA camps for 2014.
Nice
Obama is nothing more than a privileged con man.
Oh hell yeah. I'm talking about setting up a chicken and ribs shack on the ground floor with a Nike hi-tops outlet on the 2nd.
Cash money bonanza, rollin in huge piles.
And the government, courtesey of all y'alls tax dollars, will fucking pay for it all.
Promizonez, BITCHES!
Things that make you go hmmmm...
In the frame of a famous quote by John Adams:
"Obama does not understand the true nature of coin, credit, and circulation, and so he therefore attributes all the complexities, confusion, and distress in America to defects in her constitution and confederation" -
I base the assessment above on Obama's wife openly (and publically) declaring:
"Barack just wants to help- he doesn't care about money"
She fails to understand that 100% of his "policies", designed to "help", only factually help to funnel money away from those who have too little, to those who have too much. But since he doesn't care about money, that inconvenient little factoid is allowed to be summarily dismissed...
The 1% still believe that they are going to solve all the problems of the 99% (and for the 99%) in such a way that the 99% will be happy (or at least complacent) enough to leave the 1% free to continue being the 1%...
Either that, or the 1% will unleash that portion of the 99% most endeared to the 1% (the 20% of the 99% possessive of a ruthless desire to express their murderous rage freely from behind their artificial shields composed of false righteousness, clothed in fatigues, badges, and kevlar armor)
During the early phases of any hyperinflation, is it a coincidence that the police and militaries are always paid FIRST, and that their escalating wages always rise FASTEST...?
I think not.
Obama's "Promise Zones" are merely the latest move to encircle and infiltrate the most turbulent areas with those "there to help"; who are, coincidentally, also the Recondo-types who will be calling in the air strikes when the real alarm bells begin going off.
Some people are so poor, all they have is money, and shit, piles of cheap shit from walmart... and loans.
is this anywhere near the "no-no" zone?
Yummy, Federal grant = free money in the promise zone just for the asking. How can I get my hand on this juicy one. Dear leader is outdoing himself.
In the last 50 years since President Lyndon Johnson pledged to wage a war on poverty, we've spent $20.7 trillion...for WHAT? Just tell up how much more you need to erradiate poverty and ask Yellen to make a contribution.
Shit man, I'm moving to a Promise Zone.
Take me down
To the promizone city
Where the gals are big
and the guys are pretty
Oh won't you please take me home.
Why would he try to bribe people for votes when he knows he can't be elected a third time? This doesn't even make sense.
Simple Why ... Look at the legacy of Lyndon, preceeded by FDR and now Obummer - To Assure The Election of _____________
You figure it out.
“How could you tell how much of it was lies? It might be true that the average human being was better off now than before 2008. The only evidence to the contrary was the mute protest in your own bones, the instinctive feeling that the conditions you lived in were intolerable and that at some other time they must have been different. It struck him that the truly characteristic thing about modern life was not its cruelty and insecurity, but simply its bareness, its dinginess, its listlessness." GO 1984
Having the government insure subprime loans didn't fuck the country up enough. We need to straight up give money to subprime citizens.
More wasted multibillion dollar taxpayer malinvestments in minorities. We already did that for 50 years with the Great Society, (un)civil rights legislation, tyrannical laws and broad reaching favoritism policies like Affrimative Action(Reverse Discrimination), as well as 100's of Billions dumped directly into minorities, and still their academic, social, criminal, and economic metrics degrade.
“They will be led by local community leadership working toward a common goal … supported by the federal government.” Participants will get priority for federal grants and help applying from an array of agencies
Essentially this means they're going into some terribly economicallly depressed areas, setting up a new federally controlled administrator to funnel money and resources to those capitulators who cooperate. Those that don't (mayors, sherrifs, governors, small business owners) will be attacked and rooted out of positions of power/resistance. It's said that politics are local... this is exactly what this intends to be - a new socialistic/communistic control of local politics and life.
Didn't the Choctaws learn from the last time they trusted the government?
If you followed, in more modern times, what happened to Zimbabwe with Mugabe in charge - this should seem familiar. Yes, you're right too... I can't imagine any native American trusting the government.
You didn't scalp that!
I understand why he would be targeting Texas and Kentucky (Rand Paul), but why LA, aren't they alreasy full blown socialist?
These sound a lot like the same type of 'Zones' proposed by Jack Kemp many years ago, and by Rand Paul just a month ago. Of course, conservatives would praise Kemp and Paul, while knocking Obama... but then again, any Obama plan to do this would be targeted at handing out money to Democratic supporters who set up nothing but shell companies (just like Obama's green solar and car companies that went bankrupt).
I junked you because you're making the mistake of looking at this as a red/blue issue. Either side is in it for their own good, at the expense of the electorate - further erosion of the constitution be damned! We need to change our thinking and understand that the entire system is completely broken and corrupt. It just so happens that Obama the one in power now and is particularly adept at driving us over the cliff.
It is absolutely in significant.
When I hear of a new government program that will be 'unveiled', I like to mentally prepare myself by asking:
"What liberties will be encroached, and at whose expense will these changes be implemented."
Sounds like a new way to enroll more people on the dole. The dole is this President's solution to every problem.
So wait, don't they call local party leaders who make sure everyone is abiding by the party's dictate Commisars?
Oh the American public are such useful idiots. This isn't going to end well.
They have to debase the dollar if they expect Bitcoin to go up. Yellen goin to print some bucks; pay for everything. Things are going to be great. Applied for my FAFSA today.
Robots have freed to human species. Hooray.
Will Promise Zones compete for space with Free-Speech Zones?
1/09/2014 BHO
If you like your poverty you can keep your poverty............ PERIOD.
Obama is actually a white man with black skin. He knows that giving money to people almost always leads to poverty and unemployment, so this is an obvious attempt to destroy the black community.
Last year my backyard veg garden produced 150lbs, and this year, -adding a 500sqft greenhouse,-I plan for 600lbs.
If starving people show up at my door, I’ll offer them a meal. Then I’ll explain to them why it’s better for them to go. I’ll give them some parting food.
I plan on putting up a sign:
HUNGARY PEOPLE USE BACKDOOR
-------------------(arrow pointing to back door)
No Exceptions.
Promise zones. That sounds a lot like the policy of Strategic Hamlets the US attempted in Viet Nam. Things will probably work out about the same this time.
Promise Zones - that's where butt-plugs live....
Promise Zones?
Is this where Obama and the other leftists promise to take even more money from those who produce and give it to the looters?
Pity the ever shrinking middle class...
Project Zones.
PROMISE ZONE
Obama promised to deliever to the BLACKS, he didn't do it, he delivered his first term to WALL STREET.
2nd term if HILLARY is to be prez 2016 the DEM party must do something, or at least appear to be doing something.
Will it work fuck yes.
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I love it, the FEDERAL government promises to get off the backs of those who elected OBAMA. This could only mean that all the agency's will not get on the backs of TEA PARTY.
Got to love ameriKKKa, so glad I escaped years ago.
The check is in the mail
I'll pay you tomorrow
Seen this before {LBJ}, know how it ends {billion$ wasted}.
The federal government has up-to-date tools, resources, and technical expertise? Wonder why they did not use them to build Obummercare ?
Well perhaps they do have "TOOLS" - ROFL!.
More freshly minted funny money, backed by guns and the labor of future debt slaves down the drain - government is corrupt, incompetent, and generally worthless except to protect banksters and their "just us" crony-capitalist friends.
Have to wonder which corporate-welfare "friends of the administration" will be profiting from this scam.
More Solyndra's coming our way. Insane. We have to face reality - the only thing the US government appears to be good at is spying, detaining, imprisoning, torturing, intimidation, brutality, coverups, rejecting and/or stalling FOIA requests, and killing.
Except for NOAA, which is the only Federal agency that actually seems to have it's act together and actually provide a public service.
This planet is too small - time to go elsewhere, to a place where freedom, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness does not require bureaucratic approval.
Where is the Mayflower and when does it depart?
I think you'll need to live on the Mayflower indefintely, as we have bureaucracy from sea to shiining sea, and pole to pole.
Great, try to set up businesses in areas with no skilled labor and crumbling infrastructure. Yea, that will work. For anyone that doesn't know, this program (and all the ones like it) are designed to allow politicians to pass out a handful of lucrative projects (lucrative due to the tax credits) to politically connected supporters in exchange for campaign cash. Everyone shows up to the gleaming new building in front of the cameras for high fives all around. When the cameras turn off everyone runs (with cash in hand) out of the "promise" zone before sundown.
I think you overestimate the impact of campaign contributions, and underestimate the lust for camera time. Otherwise, spot on.
So, improved access to programs that haven't worked. Brilliant.
Great. Promise Zones for the Dreamers.
Narrow the achievement gap
More worthless, rote, mindless, speaking in platitudes. 'And their will be hope and change and the poor will rise up and their will be jobs and if you like your doctor and insurance company you can keep them and if my aunt had balls she'd be my uncle'.
Promise Zone = Potemkin Village
The only question is whether we have "Broken-Promise Zones" or "Broken Promise-Zones"