The following report is from The Post Millennial:
Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg launched the $1 billion Reconnecting Communities program on [June 30th] in an effort to infuse racial equity into America’s infrastructure.
NPR describes this endeavor as a “first-of-its-kind pilot program aimed at helping reconnect cities and neighborhoods racially segregated or divided by road projects.”
Buttigieg had been loudly preaching that there was racism built into America’s roads since he became Transportation Secretary. In April of 2021 he said that “there is racism physically built into some of our highways” and he laid the foundation for the Reconnecting Communities program when Biden announced his $2.2 trillion infrastructure package.
In November 2021 the “Bipartisan Infrastructure Law” passed and Buttigieg fielded questions about what the package entailed at a press conference. He was asked by CNN’s April Ryan, “can you give us the construct of how you will deconstruct the racism that was built into the roadways?”
Buttigieg didn’t get into too many details but said,
I’m still surprised that some people were surprised when I pointed to the fact that if a highway was built for the purpose of dividing a white and a black neighborhood or if an underpass was constructed such that a bus carrying mostly Black and Puerto Rican kids to a beach, or that would have been, in New York was designed too low for it to pass by, that that obviously reflects racism that went into those design choices.
Buttigieg implicitly referred to the leftist myth that New York City civil engineer Robert Moses designed the underpass to Rockaway Beach for racist reasons. The myth originated in Robert Caro’s 1974 book The Power Broker and has been consistently laundered into public discourse since.
Buttigieg’s modus operandi is consistent with application of Critical Race Theory which purports that any statistical disparity among ethnic groups is hard evidence of racism. Pursuing “equity” is not synonymous with pursuing equality under the law. Rather, to pursue racial equity one starts by looking at a statistical disparity, in this case regarding infrastructure, assuming the disparity is from racism and then skewing or adjusting the system to favor the group deemed disadvantaged.
According to ABC News, “Under the Reconnecting Communities program, cities and states can now apply for the federal aid over five years to rectify harm caused by roadways that were built primarily through lower-income, Black communities after the 1950s creation of the interstate highway system.” The qualifying analysis for “harm” is unspecified but NPR reports that it revolves around if a group “feel racially harmed.”
The solutions to correct these feelings of “racial harm” are new rapid bus lines, bike lanes, pedestrian walkways, all of which are ubiquitous goals in the infrastructure package anyway.
Some new goals are the repurposing old rail lines and, most significantly, removing highways that are felt to be harmful. $195 million in grants will be awarded with $50 million to “planning studies” alone.
Finally a “thriving communities” plan will launch with the help of Housing and Urban Development Department ostensible to help communities thrive.
This is a forward-looking vision. Our focus isn’t about assigning blame. It isn’t about getting caught up in guilt. It’s about fixing a problem. It’s about mending what has been broken, especially when the damage was done with taxpayer dollars.
Buttigieg said
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So, the government is going “about mending what has been broken, especially when the damage was done with taxpayer dollars,” by throwing MORE of our taxpayer dollars at a problem that doesn’t exist.
Simply put, Alfred E. Newman, this World Economic Forum Young Global Leader puppet, is simply seeking to drain more money out of the middle class, so they can divvy it up amongst his rich aristocratic friends, whilst pandering to the progressive vote.
The prince that wanteth understanding is also a great oppressor: but he that hateth covetousness shall prolong his days.
Proverbs 28:16
[7] Who goeth a warfare any time at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of the fruit thereof? or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock? [8] Say I these things as a man? or saith not the law the same also? [9] For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen? [10] Or saith he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he that ploweth should plow in hope; and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope. (1 Corinthians 9:7-10).
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Made in the similitude…of Alfred E. Neuman, had to chuckle at that. Mad indeed.
That was hilarious lol
Like all those ‘green’ start-up’s in the Obama years…..money going to Obama’s friends. Belly-up & bankrupt in 2 to 3 years but none of the money comes back, that’s ‘not news’, & we’re not supposed to follow up or question.
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In a related vein, I know two young families looking to buy homes. TWICE their agents forwarded two different lower priced homes with a bit of land to these folks (the only ones currently available), knowing how hard they’d worked to get debt-free and qualify for housing. Then, after showing them the homes, letting them know these sales were ‘cash only’. So, there is squeezing, manipulation & big-money buying going on in that market for certain sure. Maybe there’s a trust fund or elder relative with cash reserves they can lean on & get a bigger commission before throwing it to the big dogs who can easily buy cash at the absolute bottom price.
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Also, homes selling in 2007-8 for $50 to $60K now going for $200K+.
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Getting ugly out there. Sadly, I don’t think it’s going to get cheap because of the manipulation & great reset strategem. I think the corporations & big boys are going to buy everything up & that there will be high rent & lots of rent price fixing. That they will use that to try & squeeze people into the cities where they’re more easily controlled, while homelessness becomes a ‘crisis’. I hope I’m wrong, but all the signs are there, and now that it’s openly internationalist ….there’s nothing to hinder, no loyalty or anything.
…qualify for home financing. ….not government housing.