Why
would MSM report the news that are so important to the American people when
there are so many pointless reality shows to occupy the citizens’ time? The
Romans had pane et circenses, bread
and circuses, in the gladiatorial arenas. Americans have sports and reality TV
to dull their senses and perception of the troublesome reality.
The
new Executive Order establishes another bureaucracy to “lift communities out of
distress,” and to “support comprehensive planning and regional
collaboration.” Communities would not be in distress if the economy and
the country were not purposefully destroyed through burdensome regulations, insane
energy policy, directives, wasteful stimuli, resolutions, omnibus overspending
bills, and executive orders.
The
Council is a “pilot initiative” that partners with “cities and regions to
augment their vision of stability and economic growth.” This partnership aims
to drive communities toward “regional planning” that leads to
“sustained economic growth.”
The
end goal of the initiative is to persuade regions to accept federal resources
more effectively and efficiently to develop and implement economic strategies
to “become more competitive, sustainable, and inclusive.” There
will be strings attached to these federal resources. The operating words are “sustainable,”
and “regional”
or “regionalism,”
buzzwords for UN Agenda 21.
The
Council on Strong Cities, Strong Communities will operate within the Department
of Housing and Urban Development, chaired by the Secretary of HUD and the
Assistant to the President for Domestic Policy.
Members
include Secretaries of Treasury, Defense, Agriculture, Commerce, Labor, Health
and Human Services, Transportation, Energy, Education, Veterans Affairs,
Homeland Security, the Attorney General, and various chairs, administrators,
directors, and assistants – Council of Economic Advisors, EPA, Office of
Management and Budget, Small Business Administration, General Services, Chief
Executive Officer of the Corporation for National and Community Service,
National Endowment for the Arts, Intergovernmental Affairs and Public
Engagement, Assistant to the President and Cabinet Secretary, Assistant to the
President for Economy Policy, Council on Environmental Quality, Office of
Science and Technology Policy, and all the heads of other agencies and offices
as the President may, from time to time, designate.
Sub-groups
will be appointed to coordinate and implement the efforts and decisions of the Council on Strong Cities, Strong Communities
(SC2).
The
mission and function of the Council will be to develop and implement various
components of Strong Cities, Strong
Communities, or in bureaucratic code, SC2,
as determined by Co-Chairs: economic vision, strategies, and technical
assistance to local governments.
The
Council on Strong Cities, Strong Communities must incorporate their efforts
into the agency’s annual performance plans and the outcomes of annual
performance results. Economic growth and local capacity of cities and local
governments must be addressed.
The
federal government will assist communities in “building local capacity to
address economic issues, comprehensive planning, and advancing regional
collaboration.”
The
Council shall conduct “outreach to representatives of nonprofit organizations,
businesses, labor organizations, State and local government agencies, school
districts, elected officials, faith and other community based organizations,
philanthropies, other institutions of local importance, and other interested
persons with relevant expertise in the expansion and improvement of efforts to
build local capacity to address economic issues in cities and
communities.”
Annual
meetings will be conducted with mayors and city employees to share “findings
and progress, offer best practices, and promote strategies that have worked in
communities participating in the initiative.”
Yearly
reports will be required to “demonstrate more efficient and effective use of
federal resources.” It is not clear what the federal resources will be,
however, since so many departments are part of the Council on Strong Cities,
Strong Communities (SC2), it appears to be a massive expansion of federal
government involvement into the operation of the states and local governments. Key
operating words throughout the Executive Order are economic local
capacity and regional collaboration.
I
focused immediately on the phrase, “regional collaboration,” because it
points to another tentacle of the UN Agenda 21 octopus. I recognized the
language of HB 430 in Virginia, which established a “Regional Cooperation
Incentive Fund,” to offer an increased amount of government grant money to
planning commissions that consolidate or coordinate with other local planners, thus
regionalize.
What
is wrong with regionalization? It is a step toward globalization. It is another
layer of unaccountable, unelectable, and parasitic government. Municipalities
are shaped into borderless groups that develop comprehensive plans in many
areas but especially land use. These plans supersede local laws and often
disregard property rights. The unelected layer of “regional” government will then
ask each community to bring their laws and zoning in line with those of the
“region.”
Legislators
should not use state tax money to implement regional comprehensive plans.
Planning belongs at the local level by their elected officials. This new
Executive Order forces regionalization in every state through initiatives,
schemes, and visions, attached to federal grants in order to bribe citizens to
“regionalize,”
a step closer to total federal control of every aspect of our daily lives.
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