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[4est_4est_Gump]

Burn Down the Suburbs?
Stanley Kurtz, NRO
August 1, 2012

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.

In July of 2011, Kruglik’s Building One America held a conference at the White House. Orfield and Rusk made presentations, and afterwards Kruglik personally met with the president in the Oval Office. The ultimate goal of the movement led by Kruglik, Rusk, and Orfield is quite literally to abolish the suburbs. Knowing that this could never happen through outright annexation by nearby cities, they’ve developed ways to coax suburbs to slowly forfeit their independence.

One approach is to force suburban residents into densely packed cities by blocking development on the outskirts of metropolitan areas, and by discouraging driving with a blizzard of taxes, fees, and regulations. Step two is to move the poor out of cities by imposing low-income-housing quotas on development in middle-class suburbs. Step three is to export the controversial “regional tax-base sharing” scheme currently in place in the Minneapolis–St. Paul area to the rest of the country. Under this program, a portion of suburban tax money flows into a common regional pot, which is then effectively redistributed to urban, and a few less well-off “inner-ring” suburban, municipalities.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

Marxist HOPE!

Lest we take Obama’s words out of context and be accused of “swift-quoting,” let’s review the full passage. Speaking at a campaign stop in Roanoke, VA, on July 13, Barack Obama said:

If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help. There was a great teacher somewhere in your life. Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive. Somebody invested in roads and bridges. If you’ve got a business, you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen. The Internet didn’t get invented on its own. Government research created the Internet so that all the companies could make money off the Internet. The point is, when we succeed, we succeed because of our individual initiative, but also because we do things together.

Per a friend of mine with a Ph.D. in mathematics:

We scientists say that in order to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first build the universe — and that takes about four billion years. But that doesn’t mean we can’t build anything new from existing resources. So telling a businessman “you didn’t build that” is pure sophistry. Such phrases have always been a preamble to looting. Coming from the president, it’s chilling.

Apart from the simple untruth that “government created the Internet,” Obama’s words boil down to the collectivist bromide that the individual is nothing without the society and the state. As one would expect, Obama didn’t come up with it on his own. Standing on the shoulders of his collectivist predecessors, he ineptly restated Mussolini’s motto:

All individuals or groups are relative, only to be conceived in their relation to the State.

Benito’s fellow collectivist Adolf Hitler agrees:

Our nation can achieve permanent health only from within on the basis of the principle: The common interest before self-interest.

If the businessman “didn’t build that,” who did? Apparently, all of us did. And if the credit is equally shared, so must be the reward. Jackpot winners all, no more worries about paying the mortgage or filling the gas tank. This thrilled Obama’s voters during the 2008 election, as his speeches removed moral barriers protecting other people’s property, establishing a new morality of forced redistribution of wealth — previously known as looting.

Oleg Atbashian
http://pjmedia.com/blog/you-didnt-b...ess-of-collective-punishment/?singlepage=true

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

Now that we have gotten to the bottom of it, let’s review Obama’s quote from this new perspective:

"If you have failed, somebody along the line ruined it for you. There was a lousy teacher somewhere in your life. Somebody helped to create this unfair American system that caused you to fail. Somebody benefitted from your demise. If you’re a loser, it’s not your fault. Somebody else made that happen. The Titanic didn’t sink on its own. Corporations and insurance companies made a lot of money off of it, so they must be complicit. The point is, when we fail, we fail not only because of our individual shortcomings, but also because others have teamed up behind your backs. Vote for me — I’ll punish the guilty and give you what’s rightfully yours."
Atbashian

 

[Wat_Tyler]

I grew up in the 'burbs and wouldn't go back for all the tea in China.


Or all the Olympic Gold there, either.


Gimme the city or gimme Nowheresville. Lots of people or none at all.


It may be time to move.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

I grew up in the 'burbs and wouldn't go back for all the tea in China.


Or all the Olympic Gold there, either.


Gimme the city or gimme Nowheresville. Lots of people or none at all.


It may be time to move.

Great Grandpa's house was in the boondocks.
Grandpa's house was in the country.
Dad's house was in the 'burbs.

They're all in the same place and the last time I went back, they were in the city...

 

[Wat_Tyler]

It's all kinda relative.


Except for eastern Montana.


Get out on the highway and let the hemi breathe . . . .

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

If the city was offering something so great, the progression would be just the opposite...




All they offer is rules, regulations and restraints plus they put all the bad guys in one place under the cloak of anonymity.

 

[Wat_Tyler]

And lots of empty lots downtown, where all the biznesses used to be.


Short of not being able to have (legally) agricultural livestock, our city ain't so bad rules-wise.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

They could have that, but then, that would diminish the egalitarian nature of their lives...

 

[RobDownSouth]

Pity bumping your own thread every five minutes?

Teh stench of desperation on teh fringe right grows more palpable with each passing day.

 

[XXplorher]

"4est"


He never ran to Jennay.

His run was an expendature of sufferage instead. And THEN - she called.

this is critical to the purpose and belief of the... film (I love it well beyond a film. It absolutely afforded me a second life. I love it... more than anyone could ever argue with me about, so that's not my intention here, but...)

He did not run to Jennay.

He ran.

Until he felt he was done.

And THEN - she was redayy!!


The point being, he needed to do that, run that far and that long, until he felt it was done - for any of it, to actually be excersized off of him. And he didn't KNOW that was the reason (as is the very reason we love him so much, for doing the 'right' despite the not knowing)... but once he'd done that? That clearly was the right decision.

He'd run out all that crap. He got past it (all the thing we assume a 'dumbass' cant comprehend).

And then he got the girl.

Cuz he earned it.


Talk to me all day about this, dude. I'll go on forever. This film saved my life. I really thought I was the shit before I saw it. But things weren't lining up. I was an angry man. And then I saw this movie and it absolutely convinced me that I was a complete dickhead who had no basis of complaint. I could NEVER be as good as Forrest Gump. I THOUGHT I was. But I'm NOT. IAnd I needed to fucking learn THAT. Ain't no runnin to be done tell me otherwise. All I have are my attempts to be as significant and about the right things as yours and mine's hero.

and I really like havin him theree. Knowing I have somethng to shoot for that I can't ever achieve. I love having the bar that high.


It's not a movie about a retard, people. And if you think it is? Careful of the term on yourself, eh.



+++++++++++

What the hell have I done, entering such ernesty into an apparent about the completely illogical discussion of what Obama DID or did not say.

I was.... attempting to engage with that type?

Good day, sir.

I saw what he said. In it's entirety. He was particularly accurate. And I am not confused.

I do not wish to sell my rights of any ownership to the lowest bidder. And I am particularly certain my president does not wish that I do so. I know what he said, And he was accurate. I didn't build that fucking bridge. And I am a team player. I recognize the benefit.

I'm also the guy who says, 'Build a bigger tower because it looks like a giant cock, and who doesn't love oversized extended dicks....' But, honestly

What Obama meant was clear. It's shameful to pretent he said something he didn;t.

My bad for jumping the gun and thinking he threw endless Gump quotes out there. I'm a dork. Later...

 

[XXplorher]

Now that we have gotten to the bottom of it, let’s review Obama’s quote from this new perspective:

"If you have failed, somebody along the line ruined it for you. There was a lousy teacher somewhere in your life. Somebody helped to create this unfair American system that caused you to fail. Somebody benefitted from your demise. If you’re a loser, it’s not your fault. Somebody else made that happen. The Titanic didn’t sink on its own. Corporations and insurance companies made a lot of money off of it, so they must be complicit. The point is, when we fail, we fail not only because of our individual shortcomings, but also because others have teamed up behind your backs. Vote for me — I’ll punish the guilty and give you what’s rightfully yours."
Atbashian

Um…. What?

Does that sound ANYthing like an Obama quote?

It ain’t.

Guess I’m done here. Sorry I read backwards. Have a nice day.