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The Obama administration is moving forward with regulations designed to help diversify America’s wealthier neighborhoods, drawing fire from critics who decry the proposal as executive overreach in search of an “unrealistic utopia.”
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To qualify for certain funds under the regulations, cities would be required to examine patterns of segregation in neighborhoods and develop plans to address it. Those that don’t could see the funds they use to improve blighted neighborhoods disappear, critics of the rule say.
Say goodbye to gentrified urban cores.
"Got 'er done, mi amigo."
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I think what we see of Obamacare will devolve into something closer to what we had before it, after Obama leaves office.
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To tell you the truth, that's a really excellent argument for people. What will Obamacare evolve into...?
It looks to me like the US is slow altering into a country of increasingly strident special interests, sort of a modern tribalism. Lacking a highly dominant core, certainly nothing with the political mojo of the early LBJ reign, it simply doesn't seem possible to do a clean redesign of anything, much less such a large portion of the economy.
So what gives first? Government employee insurance (especially retirees?), the ACA subsidies, the disappearance of Medicare primary care? Do 'undocument workers' become such a powerful political force that they get a full package of health care?
There's just so much tension between highly tribalized groups of people who either want something for close to nothing, and others who have made their fortune on providing services and products, that the slip fault could happen most anywhere.
To tell you the truth, that's a really excellent argument for people. What will Obamacare evolve into...?
It looks to me like the US is slow altering into a country of increasingly strident special interests, sort of a modern tribalism. Lacking a highly dominant core, certainly nothing with the political mojo of the early LBJ reign, it simply doesn't seem possible to do a clean redesign of anything, much less such a large portion of the economy.
So what gives first? Government employee insurance (especially retirees?), the ACA subsidies, the disappearance of Medicare primary care? Do 'undocument workers' become such a powerful political force that they get a full package of health care?
There's just so much tension between highly tribalized groups of people who either want something for close to nothing, and others who have made their fortune on providing services and products, that the slip fault could happen most anywhere.
And we can thank Mr. Unity Barack Hussien Obama for it all.
And we can thank Mr. Unity Barack Hussien Obama for it all.
He strikes me as a symptom rather than a cause.
Given that he achieve the highest national office with a mysterious background (school that is, I could care less about where he was born), no accomplishments, no obvious political mafia, but with a gifted ability to read prepared speeches, I wonder sometimes how far we are from electing a video game character to that office. I like the sound of President Headroom.
I wouldn't sweat it too much. The whole US national experiment will crash and burn in due time, the trick will be to situate yourself in a financial or geographical place where it doesn't much matter. Just enjoy the ride.
A great way for big cities to reduce their crime rates is to send the Criminals to live in the Burbs.
Section 8, the gift that keeps on giving.
It wouldn't surprise me a bit if you could mathematically model Section 8 and the expansion in crime exactly as you might an epidemic. It's probably pretty hard to get Section 8 addresses, so it might be a bit tricky to do.
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