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Attention America's Suburbs: You Have Just Been Annexed
Submitted by Stanley Kurtz via NationalReview.com,
It’s difficult to say what’s more striking about President Obama’s Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing (AFFH) regulation: its breathtaking radicalism, the refusal of the press to cover it, or its potential political ramifications. The danger AFFH poses to Democrats explains why the press barely mentions it. This lack of curiosity, in turn, explains why the revolutionary nature of the rule has not been properly understood. Ultimately, the regulation amounts to back-door annexation, a way of turning America’s suburbs into tributaries of nearby cities.
This has been Obama’s purpose from the start. In Spreading the Wealth: How Obama Is Robbing the Suburbs to Pay for the Cities, I explain how a young Barack Obama turned against the suburbs and threw in his lot with a group of Alinsky-style community organizers who blamed suburban tax-flight for urban decay. Their bible was Cities Without Suburbs, by former Albuquerque mayor David Rusk. Rusk, who works closely with Obama’s Alinskyite mentors and now advises the Obama administration, initially called on cities to annex their surrounding suburbs. When it became clear that outright annexation was a political non-starter, Rusk and his followers settled on a series of measures designed to achieve de facto annexation over time.
The plan has three elements: 1) Inhibit suburban growth, and when possible encourage suburban re-migration to cities. This can be achieved, for example, through regional growth boundaries (as in Portland), or by relative neglect of highway-building and repair in favor of public transportation. 2) Force the urban poor into the suburbs through the imposition of low-income housing quotas. 3) Institute “regional tax-base sharing,” where a state forces upper-middle-class suburbs to transfer tax revenue to nearby cities and less-well-off inner-ring suburbs (as in Minneapolis/St. Paul).
If you press suburbanites into cities, transfer urbanites to the suburbs, and redistribute suburban tax money to cities, you have effectively abolished the suburbs. For all practical purposes, the suburbs would then be co-opted into a single metropolitan region. Advocates of these policy prescriptions call themselves “regionalists.”
AFFH goes a long way toward achieving the regionalist program of Obama and his organizing mentors. In significant measure, the rule amounts to a de facto regional annexation of America’s suburbs. To see why, let’s have a look at the rule.
AFFH obligates any local jurisdiction that receives HUD funding to conduct a detailed analysis of its housing occupancy by race, ethnicity, national origin, English proficiency, and class (among other categories). Grantees must identify factors (such as zoning laws, public-housing admissions criteria, and “lack of regional collaboration”) that account for any imbalance in living patterns. Localities must also list “community assets” (such as quality schools, transportation hubs, parks, and jobs) and explain any disparities in access to such assets by race, ethnicity, national origin, English proficiency, class, and more. Localities must then develop a plan to remedy these imbalances, subject to approval by HUD.
By itself, this amounts to an extraordinary takeover of America’s cities and towns by the federal government. There is more, however.
AFFH obligates grantees to conduct all of these analyses at both the local and regional levels. In other words, it’s not enough for, say, Philadelphia’s “Mainline” Montgomery County suburbs to analyze their own populations by race, ethnicity, and class to determine whether there are any imbalances in where groups live, or in access to schools, parks, transportation, and jobs. Those suburbs are also obligated to compare their own housing situations to the Greater Philadelphia region as a whole.
So if some Montgomery County’s suburbs are predominantly upper-middle-class, white, and zoned for single-family housing, while the Philadelphia region as a whole is dotted with concentrations of less-well-off African Americans, Hispanics, or Asians, those suburbs could be obligated to nullify their zoning ordinances and build high-density, low-income housing at their own expense. At that point, those suburbs would have to direct advertising to potential minority occupants in the Greater Philadelphia region. Essentially, this is what HUD has imposed on Westchester County, New York, the most famous dry-run for AFFH.
In other words, by obligating all localities receiving HUD funding to compare their demographics to the region as a whole, AFFH effectively nullifies municipal boundaries. Even with no allegation or evidence of intentional discrimination, the mere existence of a demographic imbalance in the region as a whole must be remedied by a given suburb. Suburbs will literally be forced to import population from elsewhere, at their own expense and in violation of their own laws. In effect, suburbs will have been annexed by a city-dominated region, their laws suspended and their tax money transferred to erstwhile non-residents. And to make sure the new high-density housing developments are close to “community assets” such as schools, transportation, parks, and jobs, bedroom suburbs will be forced to develop mini-downtowns. In effect, they will become more like the cities their residents chose to leave in the first place.
It’s easy to miss the de facto absorption of local governments into their surrounding regions by AFFH, because the rule disguises it. AFFH does contain a provision that allows individual jurisdictions to formally join a regional consortium. Yet the rule leaves it up to local authorities to decide whether to enter regional groupings — or at least the rule appears to make participation in regional decision-making voluntary. In truth, however, just by obligating grantees to compare their housing to the demographics of the greater metropolitan area, and remedy any disparities, HUD has effectively turned every suburban jurisdiction into a helpless satellite of its nearby city and region.
We can see this, because the final version of AFFH includes much more than just the provisions of the rule itself. The final text of the regulation incorporates summaries of the many public comments on the preliminary rule, along with replies to those comments by HUD. This amounts to a running dialogue between leftist housing activists trying to make the rule more controlling, local bureaucrats overwhelmed by paperwork, a public outraged by federal overreach, and HUD itself.
Read carefully, the section of the rule on “Regional Collaboration and Regional Analysis” (especially pages 188–203), reveals one of AFFH’s key secrets: It doesn’t really matter whether a local government decides to formally join a regional consortium or not. HUD can effectively draft any suburb into its surrounding region, just by forcing it to compare its demographics with the metropolitan area as a whole.
At one point (pages 189–191), for example, commenters directly note that the obligation to compare local and regional data, and remedy any disparities, amounts to forcing a jurisdiction to ignore its own boundaries. Without contradicting this assertion, HUD then insists that all jurisdictions will have to engage in exactly such regional analysis.
Comments from leftist housing activists repeatedly call on HUD to pressure local jurisdictions into regional planning consortia. At every point, however, HUD declines to demand that local governments formally join such regional collaborations. Yet each time the issue comes up, HUD assures the housing activists that just by compelling local jurisdictions to compare their demographics with the region as a whole, suburbs will effectively be forced to address demographic disparities at the total metropolitan level (e.g., page 196).
When housing activists worry that a suburb with few poor or minority residents will argue that it has no need to develop low-income housing, HUD makes it clear that the regulation as written already effectively forces all suburbs to accommodate the needs of non-residents (pages 198–199). Again, HUD stresses that the mere obligation to analyze, compare, and remedy demographic disparities at the local and regional levels amounts to a kind of compulsory regionalism.
HUD’s language is coy and careful. The Obama administration clearly wants to avoid alarming local governments, so it underplays the extent to which they have been effectively dissolved and regionalized by AFFH. At the same time, HUD wants to tip off its leftist allies that this is exactly what has happened.
At one level, then, the apparatus of formal and voluntary collaboration in a regional consortium is a bit of a ruse. AFFH amounts to an annexation of suburbs by cities, whether the suburbs like it or not. Yet the formal, regional groupings enabled by the rule are far from harmless.
Comments from housing advocates (pages 194–197), for example, chide HUD for failing to include a mention in AFFH of the hundreds of federally-funded regional plans already being developed by leftist activists across the country (the “Sustainable Communities Regional Planning Grant” program). These plans entail far more than imposing low-income housing quotas on the suburbs. They embody the regionalist program of densifying housing in suburb and city alike, and they structure transportation spending in such a way as to make suburban living far less convenient and workable. HUD replies that these plans can indeed be used by regional consortia to fulfill their obligations under AFFH.
So a city could formally join with some less-well-off inner-ring suburbs and present one of these comprehensive regionalist dream-plans as the product of its consortium. At that point, HUD could pressure reluctant upper-middle-class suburbs to embrace the entire plan on pain of losing their federal funds. In this way, AFFH could force the full menu of regionalist policies—not just low-income housing quotas—onto the suburbs.
There are plenty of ways in which HUD can pressure a suburb to bend to its will. The techniques go far beyond threats to withhold federal funds. The recent Supreme Court decision in Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs v. Inclusive Communities Project has opened the door to “disparate impact” suits against suburbs by HUD and private groups alike. That is, any demographic imbalance, whether intentional or not, can be treated by the courts as de facto discrimination.
Just by completing the obligatory demographic analysis demanded by AFFH—with HUD-provided data, and structured according to HUD requirements—a suburb could be handing the government evidence to be used in such a lawsuit. Worse, AFFH demands that suburbs account for their demographic disparities, and forces them to choose from a menu of HUD-provided explanations. So if a suburb follows HUD’s lead and formally attributes demographic “imbalances” to its zoning laws, the federal government has what amounts to a signed confession to present in a disparate-impact suit seeking to nullify local zoning regulations. With a (forced) paper “confession” from nearly every suburb in the country in hand, HUD can use the threat of lawsuits to press reluctant municipalities to buy into a regional consortium’s every plan.
Regionalists consider the entire city-suburb system bigoted and illegitimate, so there are few local governments that HUD would not be able to slap with a disparate-impact suit on regionalist premises. It’s unlikely that any suburb has a perfect demographic and “asset” balance in every category. All HUD has to do is decide which suburban governments it wants to lean on. With every locality vulnerable to a suit, every locality can be made to play the regionalist game.
Leftist housing activists worry that AFFH never specifies the penalties a suburb will face for imbalances in its housing patterns. These activists just don’t get it. A thoughtful reading of AFFH, including its extraordinary “dialogue” section, makes it clear that HUD can go after any suburb, any time it wants to. The controlling consideration will be politics. HUD has got to boil the frog slowly enough to prevent him from jumping.
It will take time for the truth to emerge. Just by issuing AFFH, the Obama administration has effectively annexed America’s suburbs to its cities. The old American practice of local self-rule is gone. We’ve switched over to a federally controlled regionalist system. Now it’s strictly a question of how obvious Obama and the Democrats want to make this change — and when they intend to bring the hammer down. The only thing that can restore local control is joint action by a Republican president and a Republican congress to rescind AFFH and restrict the reach of disparate impact litigation. We’ll know after November 8, 2016.
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From the list, it looks like they just annexed the entire state of Georgia.
Then I live in a county, surounded by counties, that are on the dole. But I knew that. +P! Eyes wide open!! Ain't life great after working your fucking ass off for over 40 years!!
Add this to the pile of reasons why I already live in the countryside, beyond the suburbs.
Sorry, there's no useful definition of suburb in this "rule" (remember it wasn't legislation), so anything can be roped in. You have a zip code? You're involved. Just hope the population is sparse and poor. They won't go after anyplace that doesn't offer sufficient opportunity for graft.
Yeah, but a hood rat isn't going to move out to the country. A 20 mile drive fo ma Swisher Sweets? Fuck dat!
Plus, a lot of them would probably turn up "missing", if you catch my drift.
Are you missing the point of "compulsory". Increasingly we have no choice and as financial times get worse, fewer and fewer will have the stomach to resist. Those who have either the wealth or will power to endure to escape this madness will be the "enemy", where as every screw they have to turn will be tighten down. We have seen rural property enjoy a much lower cost of taxation. this can be easily changed. As a small business, I was shocked a number of years back that my water bill suddenly increase by a factor of four due to fees assessed relative to "storm water runoff". I was being taxed on the square footage of my property, land, building and all, for when rain fell and ran off, SOMEBODY had to clean it, it was decided that was me. Watch as larger properties will be assessed the same penalties, just at the time we see California restricting water use AND further damaging their own economy. It will be an easy sell as land mass is equated to wealth (a wealth tax), and can be folded into climate change/save the world theology.
Everything they do is but a narrowing of our choices, ring fenced by force of law, social guilt and the destruction of the planet.
Opportunity for graft isn't what they want. They want control.
You won't be the first, but they will get around to you evenually.
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But how would they get control if, for example, they go cashless. If everything at that point becomes a matter of record, what becomes graft? Just throwing this out there because it intrigues me somehow. How would something like cashless work in and amongst the controllers??
Graft and corruption are but another tool of destruction, the same as entitlements and the continuous indoctrination/manipulation we have watched for years. Everyone worries about the cost of things in dollars, but the social cost, the destruction of our trust and work ethics that actually created our prosperity, are stripped away.
Here's how they roll on the microcosmic level: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rl1i1ZS5T9o
Not enough crack houses in suburbs? Wife and I are looking to leave the country. Can't fight anymore. We elected people who campaigned to help america and then laid down like pussies. Fuck every one of the 535 treasonous traitorous pigs in DC. I will never comply
Surrender to Jesus Christ and you do not need to move, for He has already provided the safe-haven that cannot be penetrated. In the end, if you do not, then you will stand before moral perfection "naked" with only one place to go along with the family. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NMlv21zGARM (2 minutes )
the safe-haven that cannot be penetrated. In the end...
that happened
To go where? Europe is full of Muslims, Australia and Canada are full of Chinese (and Muslims). There are no more White countries and therefore, no more 1st world nations (except Japan and South Korea). Welcome to White Genocide, worldwide.
No. It's not true. Australia is an absolutely beautiful country. There are huge areas outside a few urban centers, where you would never dream of seeing or thinking about a Muslim. You're just wrong. This is the center of the rot; if you get as far as Australia you'll think you died and went to heaven.
If you wanted to destroy this country from within, what what you need to do differently than what is presently being done by this administration?
Do moar?
The only opportunity beyond Nov 2016, is to form conservative non-profit groups that aggressively go after wealthy democrat strongholds and start filing lawsuits for force them to pay up first. Hit back twice as hard.
Oh great fun could be had with lawsuits over this one:
Sue HUD because there is no McMansion that you can buy in the hood.
Sue HUD because you are too old/ male/ married, etc. and thus do not qualify for the single parent with a herd of kids housing voucher.
Sue HUD for allowing minority population concentrations in the hood.
I'm glad you have the money to pay your lawyer and pay taxes that go to the government's lawyers.
Update: Whose side do you think Chief Justice Roberts will be on?
one benefit of the new smart electric meters they installed - they can turn your power off via net..jade helm is way ahead of most of us..first thing they did in waco was shut down electric power- now they can do it to whole towns and suburbs..do not connect the dots to where this is going you will not like it. you better go along white boy or else.
Which is why I invested in a large backup generator, and large steel boxes filled with brass and lead and devices designed to assist in their propulsion.
This is forcing cultures together, which causes much strife & destroys cultures. To combat that; the state-sponsored media and racists and race-baiters come out and label anyone opposed as racists.
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An immoral nation of people with immoral leadership will ALWAYS self-destruct in numerous ways...God cannot be successfully mocked and if you don't get that, then read the Scripture to understand the Scripture. All that is good for mankind that God has ordained is being attacked at every level and people who practice the same give hearty approval. The nucleus of any society is the family unit, so overtime the erosion of the family corresponds with the erosion of the nation. Feminism, legalized murder of children, easy divorce, and redefining marriage...children are always the first and last victims...wake up..God will not be mocked.
Come on man. Save the preaching for Sunday morning. This is a serious issue. If you feel the need to spread the word, go to the south side of Chicago this Sunday. There have already been over 230 people shot/40 killed in July alone. Plenty of funerals and praising of the Lord.
The funny part is these are the very same "communities" the POTUS once organized and are some of the most dangerous and poorest places in the US. Are we really going to allow him to force this kind of 'success' upon the country?
Wake the fuck up people.
Go preach your stupidity that leads to an abyss somewhere else; knowledge & understanding are ignored by fools and embraced by the wise. the issue above is nothing compared to the issue facing ALL of us.
No really; it seems to have escaped your attention somehow; but this is not a blog for religious retards. Could you please shut the fuck up about the imaginary Sky Daddy and the rest of your Mental Illness ? Thank You.
This is just more division for the sheeple.
While they will have us fighting each other over their interlopers in our neighborhoods, they, power, will continue to plunder and enslave us.
Don't drink their Kool-Aid: The plunderers and their tyranny are the enemies, not the installed niggers down the street; Unless those niggers are aggressing against you and yours...
Liberty is a demand. Tyranny is submission..
Always about money, power, and division.
Don't let them take it. Don't let them have it. Don't believe it.
And you think they will not agress towards you?
That they are not already?
It sounds like they want to create artificial demand. Cheap credit built out suburbs in the middle of nowhere, now the folly of those malinvestments is reducing the capacity for the banks ability to fabricate more loans. So, pass some legislation and force suburbs to build facilities and infrastructure like the inner cities.
Or, it's like typical managerial tactics to keep everyone busy during slowdowns by moving their offices around like musical chairs. They try everything but allow for the creative destruction of the bank's mal-investments.
I do believe that my suspicion that we are but someone's giant ant farm has been officially confirmed.
It is never a good idea to mix the red ants and black ants together, unless one wants to sit back and watch them fight......
I live in a town outside of New Haven, Ct. They've nearly completed 32 units
less than 1 mile from some rental property I own. It's not even low income,
it's NO income housing. Huge sign, St of Ct - Gov Malloy. Chest thumping bs.
Makes me nauseous to think of the scum coming soon.
But you know not to speak publicly about it, right?
We ARE in retreat.
We are left to whimper as they drive it into us, or smile gallantly proclaiming our joy and pleasure.
You better sell that rental property fast, buddy. Whinning ain't gonna get it. Take 'Action.
The cities will all end up being prisons for the poor where they will eat each other.
We should attack at dawn.
Government will give the Urbanites Hollowpoint to defend their new suburban lairs.
As soon as the little boy in game of thrones was "relected" (riiiiiight), the place was put up for sale and I split. That was it, I already knew then and there where this was going.
OT: I've been keeping an eye on the enemy (MSM) today. They're using the "fact" that mass shootings don't only happen in blue states. So, the last 2 shootings happen in red states and the media is all over it. Should I get my tinfoil hat on and consider these shootings false flags to go after the red states' position on guns?
Some asshat just made an interesting point on MSNBC. He said, "I just want one person to admit that these shootings are part of the price that we pay for our freedom and the 2nd Amendment" Give me the number to MSNBC - I'll call in and say that exact thing. If you look at history, the comparison between the number of free, armed people shooting each other and the number of unarmed people murdered by their governments isn't even close!
Still waiting on an honest commentary about Southside Chicago from the MSM...
I'll give it this, it's well-written propaganda. It hits all the bases that right wing populists love to hate - Alinsky (which, if people who aren't leftists actually read him, is a great manual for political change regardless of your politics), decaying cities vs. the virtuous suburbs, lefty Minneapolis/St. Paul and Portland, regional planning, and lots of horror show stuff. However, the author doesn't actual present any kind of analysis, just a bunch of scare stuff. It's a shame, because a well-written article that actually analyzed the regulation would have been interesting and useful.
"HUD’s language is coy and careful. The Obama administration clearly wants to avoid alarming local governments, so it underplays the extent to which they have been effectively dissolved and regionalized by AFFH." Or, maybe the language doesn't say what the author of the article says at all.
Plus, citing comments from people who wrote in about the regulation is meaningless. I've written in to comment on regulations, so I'm in the CFR on some. Big deal. It has no legal effect whatsoever.
"HUD’s language is coy and careful. "
The actual language contained in any such Bill is meaningless.
-The US Supreme Court will re-write and/or re-interpret the language, and HUD will have enormous discretion to contrive regulations and purse 'remedies'.
-We are past 'pass it to find out what's in it'. It simply doesn't matter what is passed. What matters is what the bureaucrats and ideologues desire to impose and how easily the legislation acts as a conceptual framework for impositions and taxes...
So...
You paid for an expensive post secondary education and worked your way up the ladder so you could buy an expensive house in the suburbs where crime is low and the streets are clean.
Your spouse pretty much expected it at one point or another or simply demanded it one day after some facet of excessive urban bullshit or violence created the imperative to 'get out of the city' if it wasn't the plan all along.
You paid the high property taxes to have good schools with smaller classes and nicer facilities, for personal space, for peace and quiet.
You paid for the automobiles and all of the expenses for automobiles: taxes, fees, insurances, up-keep, licensing, tolls, parking, the occasional fine or ticket for bullshit like parking a few minutes too long or not seeing or fully understanding signage, shovelled the snow off your driveway, and took the long commute every day to work.
...& now you are going to be demagogued as racists and luddites.
...Penalized for your hard work, for paying exorbitant taxes for expanded facilites and services, and for taking those long long commutes.
...See your property values diminished and neighborhoods forcibly reorganized and dismantled.
...Be disenfranchised by urban planning bureaucrats.
...Be forced into making false testimonies and admit to intentions that you did not have and/or act upon.
...Be subjected to the whims of racial tension baiters and hucksters, and utopian socialist ideologues.
...Forced to pay even more just to satisfy ideologues and bureaucrats.
...& some were concerned with emminent domain.
...& people were worried about the FEMA Camps.
...& some people were appalled by foreign acts of land and wealth seizures in such places as Zimbabwe and South Africa and Venezueala, etc..
...& some people were disgusted by blatantly anti-anglo racist political organizations with distinct agenda for demographic reorganizations, land and wealth seizures, and jim crow for whites: such as La Raza..
Boy are you in for a surprise!
You are going to have the whole obscene package shoved up your asses and all possible options outside of this macabre centrally planned dystopia destroyed but for the very very very rich...
Let the bodies hit the floor...
People moving out of the city may be able to afford the low income housing but can they afford suburban taxes, I din't think so!
There is that word again..."fair"
The Hamptons will be fine, a high proportion of diverse ethnicities live there, and they all have jobs catering to the wealthy
Everyone should take advantage of this new program now.
Start tagging your own garages. Dump your garbage out in the back yard and litter every empty field with burnt-out wrecks of cars.
Work out a local cooperative where every neighbor gets to break in to the house on the right and then get together for a street party once a month to return all the stolen stuff.
Form gangs to beat the shit out of the unmotivated jerkoff dating your daughter and start growing your own corn and pot in the front flowerbeds.
You know you've always wanted your own collection of street signs for your man cave. Now is your chance.
Chances are good that you'll be found in full compliance with all new HUD regulations and that some less-perspicacious town will serve as the example community in your state.
It may look ugly but you will preserve the essential core of your community.
Montana and North Dakota country is looking beter and better all the time!
You may not see it now, but they will become increasingly diversified from here on out. Give it a couple decades, but at the time it's still not a bad idea.
There are places these people don't want to live.
Who will provide transportation for the impregnators to visit the baby mommas in the burbs?
Maybe this is a great thing for the idiots of Amerika. They will get to see ghetto life up close and personal and begin questioning their liberal, atheist, bleeding heart stupidity.
You had me until you added atheists into the generic libtard group.
We aren't all bleeding heart liberals.
So basically if you buy a house you are subjected to the federal government moving hoodrats into your community/neighborhood on a whim, and not only that but actually take YOUR money to pay for THEM to do so.
"Fair" housing indeed.
American Wiggers open your mouth for the forced feeding of some flava.
I drive past a new projects project every day on my way to work, not very big, a city block, 2 story units, and there is still a construction fence around it. It is a combo deal, half condos half HUD. They just installed all the air conditioning units on pads in the open on ground level around the units. It cracked me up so much. The building I work at a few blocks away had all the ROOF mounted AC units stripped of copper TWICE last summer, but they did catch the guys. We are starting a pool at work as to how long they will last once the construction fence comes down.
That's niggers for ya: Destroy a $4,000 AC unit in order to MAYBE get $20 of copper out of it.
And to be fair: white trash meth-heads do it too.
Frankly, I don't care how much it doesn't matter, I am going to vote republican in 2016 in the hopes of reversing this and other demonrat and Ovomit rules.
Repubs won't help. They eagerly slop at the trough of federal money just like dems.
Arent they
They control both the house & the Senate; no vetoes prove the two parties are one in the same.
They have been working on a cunning plan that they will spring on unprepared democrats when the least expect it......someday, far, far into the future.
Boehners and McConnel are geniuses, don't cha know, and those radical bomb throwing conservatives are going to wreck the whole thing.
Everybody who sits on their asses rather that doing what is right, always have excuses.
I am SO sick of the Republicans going along with Obama on EVERYTHING. It is obviously two heads of one snake taking us right into the NWO. If Jeb Bush vs Hillary is our choice, there's little doubt that all hope is fading fast.
This is called legislation without representation. One of the main reasons why the colonists chose to fire that shot heard around the world. There are two ways for dedicated Americans to save their nation from the D.C. elitists.
1) Violent revolution. I am seeing a rapid growth of militia groups in my area (with my blessing and occasional participation in training).
2) The state legislatures invoke a Constitutional Convention under Article V of the Constitution and radically amend the powers of the federal government, or eliminate it.
Under method 1, the states will have no say as to what form of government emerges. Under 2, the states could restore some hope for America. The movement for a Convention is in process and several states have made a formal call with numerous other states in process.
My vote is for method 2 but time is growing short. Your legislators need to hear from you if your choice is also method 2. They are motivated by votes.
Well in my town, a suburb of Minneapolis, nearly all the land that housing can be built on HAS been built on. Perhaps they'll make single family homes into town houses.
The leftist Marxist Democrats who control Minnesota have already instituted “regional tax-base sharing,” where the state forces upper-middle-class suburbs to transfer tax revenue to nearby cities and less-well-off inner-ring suburbs. You are already paying for the FSA and turd world ghettos of Minneapolis!
I think this plan is wonderful. A great idea.
I fully support our Democratic Party and our president on this plan and wish them well implementing it.
It's in the interest of all American people to get this economic mixing completed as soon as possible.
Hopefully they get it done by Christmas.
Surely you jest.
Don't call me surely.
We all must support our president. He knows what's what.
It's pure unadulterated communism, and Obama's open, wholesale destruction of America rages on.
...until it comes to a screeching halt.
When the people finally put their collective foot down, it's lights out for the bad guys.
The answer would seem to be, don't accept any HUD funding. Then they can't force AFFH regulations on you.
This is zerohedge not fucking 700 club. Go spout out your phony Christian propaganda to your boyfriend Pat Robertson.
double post
Planned Re-redistricting.
Gerrymandering on crack!
get set for the next great american migration to small towns and cities by white folk. some suburbs will become the new ghettoes while property values ramp up in nearby regionally detached communities and smaller towns. and watch for an increase in gated communities - that's one signal to get out of Dodge.
The provoker is at it again.
Upper middle class neighborhoods should know better than to accept HUD funding.