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Wednesday, 24 July 2013
HUD envisions a nationwide rollout of NJ's Mount Laurel "slums for everybody" policy
We can't all live in Camden, or Detroit. So the social justice planners at HUD want to bring Camden and Detroit to a neighborhood nearer to us. Because the "affordable housing" scam has worked so well here in New Jersey, right?
To ensure that "every American is able to choose to live in a community they feel proud of," HUD has published a new fair-housing regulation intended to give people access to better neighborhoods than the ones they currently live in.
The goal is to help communities understand "fair housing barriers" and "establish clear goals" for "improving integrated living patterns and overcoming historic patterns of segregation."
"This proposed rule represents a 21st century approach to fair housing, a step forward to ensuring that every American is able to choose to live in a community they feel proud of — where they have a fair shot at reaching their full potential in life," said HUD Secretary Shaun Donovan.
Not so fast there Skippy:
Why don't the people pandered to by HUD feel proud of their own neighborhoods? Because they are cesspools. Why are they cesspools? Because the people pandered to by HUD live in them. The solution is obvious: spread the seed of decay to all corners of the country, turn the entire nation into a cesspool, and we will all have equality under our liberal rulers' heels.
Imposing "integrated living patterns" means that if the federal government has its way, no one will have the option of raising their children somewhere safe from crime, violence, and degeneracy.
If the people won't move to Detroit, then by golly the Feds will move Detroit to the people!
This is the New Jersey Supreme Court's Mount Laurel "fair housing"
nonsense on steroids. If you're successful, if you've built yourself
a nice home in a nice neighborhood, you now have the duty to give
a piece of that neighborhood to folks who haven't worked for it.
HUD calls that fairness. I call it "communism." From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs.
Neighborhoods don't just drop out of the sky. They were built by the people who live in them. And in some cases "built" is a relative term, because when folks don't take pride in themselves, when their interest in education is tangential at best, when their idea of success is sponging off of the government, well let's just say their first priority isn't whether or not their house is well-maintained.
And those kids on the corner selling dope? Suddenly that's a feature.
All that money we've poured into our cities, it's gone somewhere, just not into actually making our cities any better. But hey, when HUD tries the same thing in the suburbs, for sure it'll be great. Obama said so!
"Make no mistake, this is a big deal," Donovan said. "With the HUD budget alone, we are talking about billions of dollars."
Those "billions of dollars" didn't grown on trees. They were plucked from the pockets of those of us whose neighborhoods will now be reduced to slums. Is progressivism great or what?
"I think the best possible social program is a job."
— Ronald Reagan
The American Dream isn't something the government can just legislate into existence. It requires work. It requires effort. It requires desire. And yes, it requires that one conforms to the norms of the society to which he aspires, not the other way around. You don't get to live in Beverly Hills merely because you want to live in Beverly Hills. You have to earn it.
UPDATE 24 Jul 2013 13:52:
Also worth reading, Nice Deb explores the Class Warfare angle in all this.
Posted at 11:49 by Chris Wysocki
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