* This is what it’s like to live under a hostile elite.
I’ve never seen a Hunger Games movie or book but I know the plot line of Psycho Hostile Elite in Capitol City dominating the powerless who reside everywhere else (very North Korean btw).
This is the future they have planned for the little people.
Anyway we are in the early phase. Very Stalinesque these relocations of mass populations. As Steve has documented the elites are forcibly reclaiming urban core real estate all over the country. It’s part and parcel of the Liberals dumping liberalism for neo-Leftism. No more Mister Nice Guy when it comes to low IQ violent minorities. Just eject them.
But there’s a fly in the ointment. The urban cores are the high value targets for terrorism, bioweapons and yes nukes.
* One bug/feature of this plan is that the suburbs are, geographically, vast. Core land, near the office towers and opera houses, is inherently scarce, while increasing your radius increases your land area by a square power. It’s a simple law of geometry.
Which is to say, you don’t actually have to trash all your suburbs by parachuting in poor, dysfunctional residents evenly across the region. You simply have to threaten havoc indeterminately across a wide enough range of targets for the county executives in Westchester and Nassau to come to their senses and offer up enough sacrificial neighborhoods / school districts in which to build the new public high-rises. The really important suburbs can thus be spared. And the better-located towers near the Brooklyn Navy Yard, etc., can then be repurposed.
* Alcoholics have a name for this kind of delusion; the geographic cure, the erroneous idea that merely by moving you can solve all your problems. Reality is pathologies invariably are part of the package of us all. Which has been the experience with those cities like Chicago who knocked down the projects and found the crime of the former residents merely spread out thanks to Section 8.
At a loss how moving to suburb would make anyone more accessible to public transportation nor jobs, spare lawn care, construction trades and kitchen help.And in suburbia those jobs are often filled by illegals. There is no public transportation in Westchester County, NY spare sporadic bus service and commuter trains back into NYC.Nobody moving out there is moving closer to a job.
* Poor people impose negative externalities on those around them. It follows that they should live near as few people as possible. Within NYC, that means distant suburbs, not densely populated Brooklyn.
* Old conventional wisdom: The suburbs are a byproduct of dumb housing policy. The suburbs are soul-deadening. The suburbs are bad. The suburbs are finished.
New conventional wisdom: We must move the underprivileged to the suburbs.
* The current policy, of subsidizing poverty in expensive cities, makes no sense, but this Obama initiative makes even less sense. At least if you live in a poor neighborhood in Brooklyn you can commute to a job at Starbucks in a more expensive part of town, and have a shot at applying for a decent-paying government job at the department of sanitation or something. In Westchester, your odds of getting either kind of job would be lower.
In the suburbs, poor NAMs have to compete with middle class WAs for Starbucks jobs; in NYC, the middle class WAs are drawn to higher-end retail jobs, leaving more room for NAMs at big chains.
A better idea would be to go in the opposite direction: base the Section 8 stipend on the national average. Then the poor would migrate to states with low costs of living, like Mississippi. Those states are also magnets for manufacturing, due to their low cost of living and lack of unions. Trump’s trade policies would drive more manufacturing there.
* Why not just move all the violent dindus on to reservations? It’s basically what Chicago did to its human urban blight by sending them out to Rockford and Dubuque.
* Barack Obama has been stymied by a Republican held House of Representatives for the past 6 years. He and all his liberal supporters believe these reactionaries stand in the way of the progressive agenda to perfect America. The best way to eliminate this reactionary influence in American politics is to resettle solid Democratic voters in suburban Republican districts. The wealthy whites who settle in places like Brooklyn will keep Brooklyn Democratic, while the African Americans settled in Westchester will make Westchester more Democratic. Do this all over the country, and Republicans slowly but surely begin to lose House seats. Why aren’t Republicans this crafty?
* The objective is to create Suburban Bantustans, where the residents/inmates will be isolated from the metro core and its billionaire playgrounds. To the designers, the lack of public transport access is a feature, not a bug. In their view, most Section-8ers don’t have jobs anyway and the few who do can easily and cheaply be backfilled with a compliant illegal.
