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The Self-fullfilling Prophecy Of Big Government
I have been going through government documents and unelected bureaucracies’ documents while researching policies being put in place locally. I say “being put in place” because these policies are obfuscated from the public and sold to the public with false premises and false predictions.
One thing in particular stands out in all of these documents. The premise that if we do not act now on the recommendation of mandated policies from government, we will suffer untold disasters and horrible consequences. This is on a large scale what a filthy, lying salesman would tell you in order to get you to buy into some crooked scheme or some unproven, risky investment, be it a stock, a used car, or a new roof when your roof is actually perfectly fine. Somehow this worst method of salesmanship has worked its way into the fiber of our governing bodies and systems, so that now it is done with blatant abandon and virtually no consequences are brought to the liars. Media’s complacency and support for the lies is legend by now. The public is completely in the dark or snookered, yet the big government agenda pursued by the liars just continues unabated.
An example I wish to point out is the constant blaring of “all hell is going to break loose due to population growth!” The unelected Council of Governments of our area is guilty as charged. The Director of Centralina Council of Governments recently waltzed into our City Council and County Commissioners meetings here in Union County and proceeded to exclaim that we are moving toward uncontrollable growth in our region and therefore, we MUST begin to inventory and manage all resources before we are overwhelmed with water shortages, dreadful air quality conditions, open land shortages, food shortages, and more. Further he demanded that the knowledge of these dire consequences MUST be put into the school curriculum in order to prepare our children for the change in lifestyles they MUST expect….or else.
When questioned on his authority, he admitted he had none. When questioned about the binding contract he was presenting to our elected officials, he said, “Oh, you can get out of it at any time with no consequences.” When questioned about what was expected of our citizens and elected officials he said, “You can pick and choose what you wish to do or not … No problem.” The trouble with all of this is that the entire presentation was a lie from beginning to end. And guess what? Our City Council was 5 to 2 suckered into signing the contract on the basis of this man’s lies.
Since this occurrence, I have acquired the documents that this Centralina Council of Governments used for this excursion into fantasyland. The contract is binding. There are consequences to resigning from it. And no, you cannot pick and choose what you would like to do or not. The entire thing is a mandate from Obama’s administration of unelected Czars. When you sign onto a contract with the Federal government, you can damn betcha there are consequences to getting out of it. Our City Council can’t be that stupid, can they? You can all answer in unison, “YES THEY CAN!”
Looking into the premise of this predicted onslaught of human beings descending on our area, I discovered that the United States birthrate has been in decline for quite some time now. While North Carolina has grown at a modest pace of 1.3 %, the Madame Zelda of the Centralina Council of Governments said we are going to suffer through a huge increase of population that will overwhelm all of our resources in the next short time span of 20 years. I can’t help but wonder where he is going to get all of these people …unless our government is planning to ship in more Somalis, Nigerians, Mexicans, and any Islamics they can find through our deliberately open borders. Otherwise, this massive population increase is not likely to happen any time soon. Maybe he knows something we don’t?
Looking into the dire predictions of lost “open space,” you can find many sites to tell you that only 5.4 % of the land mass of the United States is developed land. For all of those who didn’t take math classes, that means that at least 94.6% of the United States is left to the wilds already or is rural farmland not considered developed. According to Randall O’Toole, “Urbanized areas and urban clusters cover 2.6 percent of the nation’s land.” So do you think we are running out of open land?
As far as I can tell, any “water shortages” prediction has more to do with the purposeful neglect of government maintaining infrastructure to distribute water, than with anything else. While our politicians have been spending money on windmills that produce nothing and damage the environment, they have neglected to update and renovate our water systems for years now. In fact, they have so deliberately done this that the Federal government has been very busy blowing up dams to stop humans from having reliable water availability.
On transportation, the government has diverted money from the Federal Highway Administration to pay for greenways and bike paths and mass transit. So when they say our transportation system for automobiles is lacking, I wonder who they think is responsible for that? Certainly not the taxpayers.
Then there is the “air quality” issue. Where I live, in a suburb about 30 miles from the next largest city (Charlotte) our air quality is just dandy. The statistics I could find show that we have less than four days per year that are even close to the “yellow” status. But when the geniuses lump us into a “region,” they include Charlotte, which makes it look like our suburb is just choking to death from bad air. Which is exactly what they want people to believe so they can continue to force people onto bicycles and mass transit.
So it goes with every government program you can find today. The Alinsky fools always yell that “The sky is falling,” to support their big government take-over, but then turn around and accuse any opposition of being Chicken Littles when fighting against government tyranny. These folks flip everything on its head, so much that I’m starting to get whiplash.
The bad news is that the prophecies they are fomenting are likely to actually happen because of their malfeasance and damaging policies. Like NAFTA was the supposed solution to gaining manufacturing success for the U.S. (i.e. if we didn’t do it then U.S. manufacturing was going to wither up and die), that program did just the opposite of its promises by encouraging manufacturing to leave the U.S. Then what happened? Manufacturing in the U.S. withered up and died. So like restricting water due to shortages is supposed to “save us,” their policies of refusing to create reliable water sourcing will cause the shortages they predict. ”Air quality” will necessarily get worse as they jam populations into higher and higher densities. Voilá! You have an “air quality” crisis….only they created it.
Big government proponents are telling the public whatever lies it takes to stuff their policies down our throats. The dire consequences they are predicting if you don’t swallow the bitter pill are exactly what they are making happen anyway. Or, in some cases, the predictions are just bunk and rubbish. In other cases they are telling us what dire consequences they intend to create. Whichever way you look at these lies, they are self-fulfilling prophecies that lead to only one place: the tyranny of big government.
The one sticking point I can’t seem to relieve at this point is this: Does anyone care about lying anymore? Are we so used to lies that we just expect it and then swallow the bitter pill they are passing around? Can a nation stand on lies? I doubt it. Can a nation depend on selfish Madame Zelda’s? I doubt it.
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According to the Charlotte Business Journal, from 2000 – 2010 the Charlotte region grew at a rate of 64.6%, and was home to about 1.2 million people. Doing a little math assuming that growth rate continues on a ten-year basis we see this:
2010: 1,200,000 x 1.646
2020: 1,975,200 x 1.646
2030: 3,251,179 x 1.646
2040: 5,351,441 x 1.646
2050: 8,808,472 x 1.646
2060: 14,498,745 x 1.646
2070: 23,864,934 x 1.646
2080: 39,281,681 x 1.646
2090: 64,657,647
Thus, in only 80 years, less than a single human lifetime, the Charlotte region would grow from 1.2 million to almost 65 million. That’s 7 times the current population of the entire state, almost 4 times larger than New York City and more than twice the size of Tokyo. Can you say World Class, baby?! That kind of growth would certainly push CharMeck Govco to the limit in terms of resources and infrastructure. Of course, THEY are the ones that determine the growth rate, specifically through the issuance of building permits. But let’s assume they somehow manage to pull that off.
By 2150 (only 137 years from now, and not beyond the realm of a single lifespan by that date) the Charlotte region would top 1 billion people Yes, that’s billion with a b. There’s only 7 billion people on the entire planet today, so what would the rest of the country (and world) look like if Charlotte achieved that?
Living in a suburb 30 miles from Charlotte might not be so fine and dandy under those assumptions. Hopefully that kind of growth won’t happen!
But, even if the Charlotte region’s growth slowed to only the national average of 14.3% for large urban areas every ten years, the population would still double every 50 years. Manageable? Yeah, probably. Attractive or desirable? Not hardly.
From the beginning of recorded history (prior to Christ) until the late 1800s the Earth’s population never exceeded more than about 500 million people. Now we have 7 billion – a mere 148 years later.
What the next 148 years look like in Charlotte (and around the world) will no doubt be influenced by governments, and not for the better I fear. Let’s just hope we don’t have a billion people trying to get home on 77 and 485 every day!
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liars are part of the new normal… they are to be applauded and promoted in this new America we live in..
What most of today’s sheep do not realize is that the “new normal” is now well entrenched and for all practical purposes is now “normal”.
Some things never change.
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Government promises are kinda like the ads on this page. It says 3 people defriended me and I don’t even have a facebook account.
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Union County will continue to grow due to people moving away from the Charlotte area.
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How will you Unionites ever water your lawns with that influx of new neighbors?
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From the Union paper:…Union County’s water processing plant, jointly owned with Lancaster County, has a capacity to pump 32,000,000 gallons of water per day. Since May of 2007, western Union County water consumption has exceeded our 18,000,000 gallons per day portion on number of occasions. In June of 2007 the county instituted water restrictions to curb customer use and lessen the strain on the county’s inadequate infrastructure for delivering water. The sad case is that even if we had more water, we don’t have the pipes, water towers and infrastructure to pump it to the consumers faucets.
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You act as if somehow you can put up a wall around Union County to keep people out as well as bad air. You also share water with Lancaster County from the Catawba. If they continue to outpace Union County’s growth, what will you do then?
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And who is to singularly blame for both the excess number of people and the inadequate infrastructure to support them? GOVCO.
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