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The “Green Fields of Governance” or the “Scorched Earth of Socialism”
Tue, 12/30/2008 - 8:38am | posted by United Liberty Guest
By: Don Casey
The global society is experiencing the repercussions from the first tidal wave associated with the “wrenching transformation” referenced by Al Gore in his book, “Earth in the Balance”.
This initial destructive wave (financial in nature) is due to the commitment by the majority of the governments of the world to provide a house for every form of family unit. Thus, this commitment, from the United Nations 1995 Habitat II Conference would be listed as priority one in the June 2001 “United States – Habitat II” Progress Report. Referencing this ill-fated policy, the report states:
…the role of the secondary-market government sponsored enterprises (GSEs)—Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac…. over the next 10 years the GSEs will purchase $2.4 trillion in mortgages for 28 million low- and moderate-income families, an increase of almost $500 billion over the earlier goal.
Global financial institutions following governmental policy created MBS (Mortgage Backed Securities). The worth of the MBS would soon equal the cost of the ink and paper used to create the so-called financial instrument. The rest of the story regarding government policy number “one” priority is replete with intrigue, fraud, mayhem, and, of course, financial ruin. Political officials assume their typical position of finger pointing and desk pounding. The resulting amount of justice dispensed is equal to the value of the MBS.
A Look Ahead – “Governance” - item 5 on the government’s implementation list.
Scott Fosler, former board member of the Alliance for Regional Stewardship, acting as moderator during the 2003 National Stewardship Forum, stated:
The challenge remains to locate vocabulary that expresses what we want to say without threatening or turning off important potential stewards and constituents.
Mr. Fosler would likely discourage the use of the word “duped”. Nonetheless, “duped” is most applicable in explaining the deceptive course in the implementation of the three legs of “Sustainable Development” – “social, economic” and “environmental”.
Example:
During the November 4th, 2008 Marshall County, Alabama Work Session, Commission Chairman Doug Fleming led the discussion on the prime topic of the meeting - the County Commission’s intent to expose supposed falsehoods printed in Marshall County Citizen for Property Rights (CPR) flyer. The CPR formed to protect property rights after the County adopted a draconian ordinance designed to implement Alabama’s “Limited Self-Governance” act. The flyer quoted an appropriately descriptive definition of “Governance” which was printed in the United Nations 1999 Human Development Report.
Governance is not government – it is the framework of rules, institutions and practices that set limits on the behavior of individuals, organizations and companies. (page 34)
Ultimately, Chairman Fleming acknowledged the CPR’s right to utilize the appropriate definition.
Following Chairman Fleming’s acknowledgement, Commissioner Strickland displayed a desired to ridicule the assertion that an Alabama statute could conceivably be associated with a global program.
Duped!
Click here for a video of the above example.
The implementation of “governance” is not limited to legislative action. The “wrenching transformation” i.e. “globalization” involves more than governmental authority. As such, this “governance” system designed to implement and enforce “sustainable development principles” require a “framework of rules, institutions and practices” designed to “limit” “behavior”. In order to be successful this system appropriately described by the United Nations 1999 Human Development Report includes additional forays into the structure of society.
Example:
Since 1997, Region 2020, a purported civic organization has led the efforts for “regional cooperation” in 12 central counties of Central Alabama. Under the heading of “STRUCTURE OF GOVERNMENT & SERVICES”, Region 2020 clarifies “regional cooperation” - “to develop a region that achieves regional governance with Home Rule.” Joining in the call for “governance” are the Regional Planning Commission of Greater Birmingham and the Birmingham Regional Chamber of Commerce. Larry Watts, Executive Director of the “Regional Planning Commission,” stated that their combined effort was to create “regional governance” not “regional government.”
Their longstanding effort to “limit behavior” through “regional governance” has resulted in the creation of the “Regional Growth Alliance” (RGA). The RGA was presented in 2003 with the “First-Ever Regional Stewardship Award”. In the 2003 the Alliance for Regional Stewardship recognized the efforts of a total of four programs across the country designed to “limit behavior”.
In 2006 the Alliance for Regional Stewardship held the “Regional Stewardship & Collaborative Governance Implementation That Produces Results” forum. The Alliance forum publication acknowledges exemplary examples of “regional governance” and provides additional information regarding various forms of “behavior limiting” “governance”:
There are several ways to characterize the relationship between governance and government.
- Governance is the use of government authority to set the rules for interaction among private individuals and organizations.
- Governance as the processes that set the purposes of government and decide which purposes will be embraced as public problems that government will try to solve (governance as politics).
Expanding the scope of “governance” the Alliance for Regional Stewardship states that:
Regional Collaborative Governance” is, – “about how regional stewards find practical ways to solve problems by transcending traditional jurisdictions, sectors, and issues, and creating a new framework for collaborative action.”
Regional Collaboratives” – “…are run by practitioner-professionals who are skilled in the art of effectively blending government, business and nonprofit resources. They create goals for the region, and then design strategies that implement collective, effective, measurable results.” (Emphasis added.)
Regional steward - “Regional stewards include local elected or appointed officials, university or college leaders, executives of local businesses, foundation executives, non-profit leaders and community activists. What they all have in common is the realization that to accom-plish their goals they need to work collaboratively with people in other jurisdictions and sectors.” (Emphasis added.)
Collaborative governance is a practical process, led by regional stewards, to reinvent how our nation solves its problems, how it reweaves the fabric of American society region-by-region.” (Emphasis added.)
Reflecting on Scott Fosler’s quote:
The challenge remains to locate vocabulary that expresses what we want to say without threatening or turning off important potential stewards and constituents.
“Reweaving the fabric of society” does somehow sound more acceptable than Al Gore’s “wrenching transformation”. Of course “Sherman’s march through Georgia” is a nice way of referring to a “scorched earth policy”.
Excellent article! The extreme environmentalists are, wittingly or unwittingly, moving us toward total government control. Mr. Casey certainly demonstrates a grasp of this danger.
the beginning of the long, slow, agonizing death of america….
Global financial institutions did not create the securitized mortgage market for the idealistic reason of providing homes for everyone; they did it because there was too much investment capital running after too few high yield investment instruments. The investment market pressed for high yield products , but there were very few available to absorb all that abundant capital.. Thanks to the Reagan era “Supply Side Economics”, the situation was created which drained money from consumption and concentrated it into excessive investment, which drove down returns on equities and Treasury notes to levels far below inflation expectations. Even local bank issued FDIC insured certificates of deposits offered better yields than standard products such as corporate stocks and US Treasury bonds.
Wall Street than simply recognized the potential to make money by packaging all these mortgages and selling them off for higher yields than possible with any other instrument, but without informing investors of the risk potential involved.
Good business opportunity, and on the initial face of it, good for everybody. If only the buyers had priced in for the risk.
But you can not blame this mess on the desire to provide decent affordable housing. This is entirely the result of bad Federal economic policy and the natural human tendency towards blind greed.
This entire issue is a headfake of the real issue.
The real issue is the lack of jobs in the United States of America.
The housing crisis was not caused by sub prime mortgages as the media is drilling it into our heads every day!!!!!!!
The foreclosure crisis was not caused by poor lending practices or even illegal lending practices to give everyone a home!!
Do not be fooled by the idiots, liars, or paid off media that is trying to blame it on everything they can to hold down the average American who for once had access to credit like the corporations have had every day and the government creates in a whim of electrons.
The real problem is our government helping the corporations offshore every single job they can to third world countries to bypass our legislation of freedom, workers rights, slave labor laws, child labor laws, environmental laws or every legislation we have spent over 200 years coming up with to create a better United States of America.
Homes are selling for less than it cost to build them in a market were labor is cheap and materials are cheap. This is not the result of a HOUSING BUBBLE this is a HOUSING CRATOR! Again the media is trying to fool everyone. Do not be a FOOL!!!!!
We need two laws,
1 domestic content for things we want to continue to make for future of all Americans like autos, appliances, computer products, military and space equipment(yes we
are like idiots buying military and space equipment from INDIA and CHINA, we design they build and our corportations and government thinks it is alright!)
2 Corporations which do busines in the United States of America must follow all or our federal laws no matter were they build thier products or they do not sell them in the United States of America, Period. That would include minimum wage, child labor, clean air and water to name a few. Then the playing field would be even and the jobs would FLOOD back to the United States of America.
This would correct the economy in about 1 month. Because it would create jobs. Jobs will create buyers for homes which are on sale for less than a QUARTER of what it cost to build them.
And if you just have to use the bailout money how about direct loans for auto and cars. 700 billion would buy every automobile produced this year with enough money to buy every forclosed home on the market. And this would be direct loans as opposed to give aways to Citi which is owned by Dubia who is taking the United States of America to the cleaners building a citi on the Ocean with that money!!!! While Americans get kicked out of there homes by elected officials who every day say they can not do anything because they are put into office by rich Corporations from INDIA and CHINA who are stealing every job by bypassing all these great laws in the United States of America which make it impossible to produce goods cheaper in America.
Do not blame the corporations because they are doing what they are supposed to do which is make as much money as possible.
Put the blame right were it belongs. Our legislators must legislate in job creation and job retention. You and I must vote in legislators who do this and demand that they do there JOB!!!
Domestic content,
Corporations follow our federal laws no matter were they manufacture!
Pass it on.
dave c - right on, but too bad you are not educated in grammar & spelling -
Meanwhile, we, the people, are now the slaves of the elite in DC- the environmentalists & bankers, & those who allow the illegals to remain in the USA have choked us almost to death -
We must return to the Constitution, freedom, and Common Sense!
There are 5 houses in five different colors
In each house lives a different nationality.
These 5 owners drink a certain beverage, smoke a certain brand of cigar and keep a certain pet.
No owners have the same pet, smoke the same brand of cigar, or drink the same beverage.
The CLUES:
The Brit lives in the Red house.
The Swede keeps dogs as pets.
The Dane Drinks tea.
The Green House is on the left of the White House.
The Green House’s owner drinks coffee.
The person who smokes Pall Mall rears birds.
The owner of the yellow house smokes Dunhill.
The man in the center house drinks milk.
The Norwegian lives in the first house.
The man who smokes Blends lives next to the one who keeps cats
The man who keeps horses lives next to the man who smokes Dunhill.
The man who smokes Blue Master drinks beer.
The German smokes Prince.
The Norwegian lives next to the Blue House.
The man who smokes Blends has a neighbor who drinks water.
The QUESTION:
Who owns the fish?
Dave, dude… where you from ??
Here in Fresno, CA, new homes are poorly made from the cheapest grade materials by stupidly high-paid workers, then put on the market at the highest possible price. There is no such thing here as a ‘new’ home being sold for a loss. Used homes, yeah.. considering what the paper cost, uh huh, a used home is always a big loss now. No one wants a used home when folks are charging new home prices just to recover some interest lose. The joke here is that a lot of the older used homes are actually much better made and of better material than the new homes. Ironic stuff.
No way we will ever see all Americans in their own home. Won’t happen as long as wages stay low and cost of living is high. And the simple fact that the entire mortgage industry is just legalized crime… I’m sure the ‘mob’ is jealous.
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