OTHERWISE OCCUPIED

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ARMY CORPS OF ENGINEERS, DAM BUSTING, CREATING A WATER SHORTAGE

I'm seeing articles Here and There where the left wing is trying to plant the idea that concerns over Agenda 21 are "conspiracy theories" from "tin foil hats" and are ridiculous attempts to discredit the environmental movement. So for those of you who may be sitting on the fence or on the left and buying this idea, I think it is high time to get the record straight.

There is no conspiracy theory. There are no tin foil hats. And, if you would be so gracious to educate yourselves, you can go straight to the horses mouth Here and see for yourself. City council members and county commissioners who have never heard of Agenda 21, but keep implementing the principles of Agenda 21 are the worst offenders of ignorance on the planet. But I digress.

For today's reading pleasure, I bring to you more evidence of Agenda 21 being played out in what I believe to be government lead crime against the people. The incidents I cite are from last spring and early summer when the waters normally fill up the rivers and, heretofore, were controlled by carefully constructed dams. While this did not happen this week, the story deserves revisiting for the sake of enlightening the clueless who refuse to see the truth right in front of them.

A report here describes quite well what the Army Corps of Engineers has been doing to destroy farmland and the family owned farms along the Missouri River.

Excerpt here:
"Today, a Missouri farmer completed a conference call about the federal government sending letters to flooded farmers in the Missouri River flood plain and bottoms, notifying them that the Army Corps of Engineers will offer to buy their land. One critic, Ann Barnhardt of Capital Management, Inc. summarized these events Monday:

* "Intentionally flood massive acreage of highly productive farmground.

* Destroy people’s communities and homes.

* Catch them while they are desperate and afraid and then swoop in and buy the ground cheap."

Barnhardt traced some of the major investing to George Soros who is “investing” in farmground through the same company he used to get into the grain elevator and fertilizer business, Ospraie Management Fund, that is buying up farmground in a joint venture with Teays River Investments as a partner.

Read more here

Mismanagement of water, I would say, is another sign of the degradation of our ability to survive. Why would that be promoted by our government? Now we hear about the latest scare tactic, a coming water shortage. (We are told we are facing energy shortages, yet our government chooses energy starvation policies....sound familiar?)

I typed in a google search with these words: Coming Water Shortage. Try that and you will see thousands of dire and desperate claims of how we will be suffering for lack of water within the next 15 to 30 years. Excuse me for being skeptical, but does this look like another manufactured crisis? By blowing up the dams, our government is creating scarcity in four (4) areas of necessity. Land, food, water, and electricity. Flooding farmland, reducing our capacity to raise food, reducing available water quantities, and reducing hydro-electric capacity. Of course, all of the articles cite rising population as the culprit. It's a Fabian Socialist's dream. No water. No food. No energy. No land. No babies.

Meanwhile, our city a few years ago implemented a "storm water runoff fee." This is basically an impact fee for handling storm water runoff. The more impermeable surface on your land, the higher the fee. The supposed justification for this is you are causing headaches and costs to the city to catch and direct the water. Seems to me that if there is a shortage of water, the city should be paying land owners for more runoff that can be caught, purified, and used. Our property taxes are already supposed to be paying for water management. But now...we should be punished for the size of house, driveway, patio, etc. Never mind that the runoff from your roof, driveway, and patio, is still going into the water system, whether into the land and downstream to the rivers, or into the drainage system and into the city reservoirs. Some cities are going so far as making rain barrels illegal or demanding water licensing rights to have one.

I think from this, you would have to be deaf, dumb, and blind, to not understand that our country is under an internal threat. The threat is less about ecology than it is about control of resources. The threat continues to come from government. The question remains, how do we stop it?


Rain Barrels Declared Illegal
Collecting Rain Water Now Illegal
Description of Charlottesville, VA Water Shortage Hoax Here

ARMY CORPS OF ENGINEERS, DAM BUSTING, CREATING A WATER SHORTAGE

I'm seeing articles Here and There where the left wing is trying to plant the idea that concerns over Agenda 21 are "conspiracy theories" from "tin foil hats" and are ridiculous attempts to discredit the environmental movement. So for those of you who may be sitting on the fence or on the left and buying this idea, I think it is high time to get the record straight.

There is no conspiracy theory. There are no tin foil hats. And, if you would be so gracious to educate yourselves, you can go straight to the horses mouth Here and see for yourself. City council members and county commissioners who have never heard of Agenda 21, but keep implementing the principles of Agenda 21 are the worst offenders of ignorance on the planet. But I digress.

For today's reading pleasure, I bring to you more evidence of Agenda 21 being played out in what I believe to be government lead crime against the people. The incidents I cite are from last spring and early summer when the waters normally fill up the rivers and, heretofore, were controlled by carefully constructed dams. While this did not happen this week, the story deserves revisiting for the sake of enlightening the clueless who refuse to see the truth right in front of them.

A report here describes quite well what the Army Corps of Engineers has been doing to destroy farmland and the family owned farms along the Missouri River.

Excerpt here:
"Today, a Missouri farmer completed a conference call about the federal government sending letters to flooded farmers in the Missouri River flood plain and bottoms, notifying them that the Army Corps of Engineers will offer to buy their land. One critic, Ann Barnhardt of Capital Management, Inc. summarized these events Monday:

* "Intentionally flood massive acreage of highly productive farmground.

* Destroy people’s communities and homes.

* Catch them while they are desperate and afraid and then swoop in and buy the ground cheap."

Barnhardt traced some of the major investing to George Soros who is “investing” in farmground through the same company he used to get into the grain elevator and fertilizer business, Ospraie Management Fund, that is buying up farmground in a joint venture with Teays River Investments as a partner.

Read more here

Mismanagement of water, I would say, is another sign of the degradation of our ability to survive. Why would that be promoted by our government? Now we hear about the latest scare tactic, a coming water shortage. (We are told we are facing energy shortages, yet our government chooses energy starvation policies....sound familiar?)

I typed in a google search with these words: Coming Water Shortage Try that and you will see thousands of dire and desperate claims of how we will be suffering for lack of water within the next 15 to 30 years. Excuse me for being skeptical, but does this look like another manufactured crisis? By blowing up the dams, our government is creating scarcity in four (4) areas of necessity. Land, food, water, and electricity. Flooding farmland, reducing our capacity to raise food, reducing available water quantities, and reducing hydro-electric capacity. Of course, all of the articles cite rising population as the culprit. It's a Fabian Socialist's dream. No water. No food. No energy. No land. No babies.

Meanwhile, our city a few years ago implemented a "storm water runoff fee." This is basically an impact fee for handling storm water runoff. The more impermeable surface on your land, the higher the fee. The supposed justification for this is you are causing headaches and costs to the city to catch and direct the water. Seems to me that if there is a shortage of water, the city should be paying land owners for more runoff that can be caught, purified, and used. Our property taxes are already supposed to be paying for water management. But now...we should be punished for the size of house, driveway, patio, etc. Never mind that the runoff from your roof, driveway, and patio, is still going into the water system, whether into the land and downstream to the rivers, or into the drainage system and into the city reservoirs. Some cities are going so far as making rain barrels illegal or demanding water licensing rights to have one.

I think from this, you would have to be deaf, dumb, and blind, to not understand that our country is under an internal threat. The threat is less about ecology than it is about control of resources. The threat continues to come from government. The question remains, how do we stop it?
Mismanagement of water, I would say, is another sign of the degradation of our ability to survive. Why would that be promoted by our government? Now we hear about the latest scare tactic, a coming water shortage. (We are told we are facing energy shortages, yet our government chooses energy starvation policies....sound familiar?)

I typed in a google search with these words: Coming Water Shortage Try that and you will see thousands of dire and desperate claims of how we will be suffering for lack of water within the next 15 to 30 years. Excuse me for being skeptical, but does this look like another manufactured crisis? By blowing up the dams, our government is creating scarcity in four (4) areas of necessity. Land, food, water, and electricity. Flooding farmland, reducing our capacity to raise food, reducing available water quantities, and reducing hydro-electric capacity. Of course, all of the articles cite rising population as the culprit. It's a Fabian Socialist's dream. No water. No food. No energy. No land. No babies.

Meanwhile, our city a few years ago implemented a "storm water runoff fee." This is basically an impact fee for handling storm water runoff. The more impermeable surface on your land, the higher the fee. The supposed justification for this is you are causing headaches and costs to the city to catch and direct the water. Seems to me that if there is a shortage of water, the city should be paying land owners for more runoff that can be caught, purified, and used. Our property taxes are already supposed to be paying for water management. But now...we should be punished for the size of house, driveway, patio, etc. Never mind that the runoff from your roof, driveway, and patio, is still going into the water system, whether into the land and downstream to the rivers, or into the drainage system and into the city reservoirs. Some cities are going so far as making rain barrels illegal or demanding water licensing rights to have one.

I think from this, you would have to be deaf, dumb, and blind, to not understand that our country is under an internal threat. The threat is less about ecology than it is about control of resources. The threat continues to come from government. The question remains, how do we stop it?
Mismanagement of water, I would say, is another sign of the degradation of our ability to survive. Why would that be promoted by our government? Now we hear about the latest scare tactic, a coming water shortage. (We are told we are facing energy shortages, yet our government chooses energy starvation policies....sound familiar?)

I typed in a google search with these words: Coming Water Shortage Try that and you will see thousands of dire and desperate claims of how we will be suffering for lack of water within the next 15 to 30 years. Excuse me for being skeptical, but does this look like another manufactured crisis? By blowing up the dams, our government is creating scarcity in four (4) areas of necessity. Land, food, water, and electricity. Flooding farmland, reducing our capacity to raise food, reducing available water quantities, and reducing hydro-electric capacity. Of course, all of the articles cite rising population as the culprit. It's a Fabian Socialist's dream. No water. No food. No energy. No land. No babies.

Meanwhile, our city a few years ago implemented a "storm water runoff fee." This is basically an impact fee for handling storm water runoff. The more impermeable surface on your land, the higher the fee. The supposed justification for this is you are causing headaches and costs to the city to catch and direct the water. Seems to me that if there is a shortage of water, the city should be paying land owners for more runoff that can be caught, purified, and used. Our property taxes are already supposed to be paying for water management. But now...we should be punished for the size of house, driveway, patio, etc. Never mind that the runoff from your roof, driveway, and patio, is still going into the water system, whether into the land and downstream to the rivers, or into the drainage system and into the city reservoirs. Some cities are going so far as making rain barrels illegal or demanding water licensing rights to have one.

I think from this, you would have to be deaf, dumb, and blind, to not understand that our country is under an internal threat. The threat is less about ecology than it is about control of resources. The threat continues to come from government. The question remains, how do we stop it?

Rain Barrels Declared Illegal
Collecting Rain Water Now Illegal
Description of Charlottesville, VA Water Shortage Hoax Here

LET ME TRANSLATE THIS FOR YOU....TRANSPORTATION IS COMPLICATED

If I can. First, here, copied for you below, is an email announcement of future "webinars" for something called the American Public Works Association. APWA Well, I never heard of them. You probably haven't either. But they are putting on "webinars" for local Economic Development Committees / Commissions ( EDC) and local transportation planners (MPO, RPO, CTA, etc) . I love the "SME" one. Subject Matter Experts! Don't you wish you owned that title??
So read on and I will clue you in at the bottom of this.

FREE – “Every Day Counts - Exchange” for Local Government Transportation Managers
EDC-Exchange will be a regularly scheduled series of “dynamic webinars”. The in-person learning sessions will describe effective project development and delivery practices, tools and “market ready” technologies that local and tribal transportation agencies can readily implement into their programs. FHWA national subject matter experts (SME), in conjunction with FHWA and State DOT field office experts, will provide information and materials, and facilitate discussions designed specifically for the local/tribal transportation managers and their consultants. Five (5) video sessions are planned at this time:

Schedule
The “Season Premiere” of EDC-EXCHANGE is scheduled for Thursday, December 15 2011, with subsequent events scheduled bimonthly on the 3rd Thursday of the month thru August 2012 as shown below. Each session will typically be presented from 1:00 pm to 4:00 pm Eastern Standard Time. The schedule is as follows:
December 15, 2011: Welcome to the National Transportation Innovation Network and Discussion with Secretary LaHood (tentative) followed by a presentation on Construction Manager/General Contractor (CMGC)
Exchange #2 Topic: Geosynthetic Reinforced Soils (GRS) February 16, 2012
Exchange #3 Topic: Flexibility in ROW April 19, 2012
Exchange #4 Topic: In Lieu Fees / Mitigation Banking June 21, 2012
Exchange #5 Topic: Adaptive Signal Control Technologies (ASCT) August 16, 2012

What happens after each EDC-EXCHANGE presentation?
FHWA will host and manage an online “community of practice" forum, located on the EDC website at http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/everydaycounts/, to field follow up questions and share additional information after the initial broadcast. After 30 days, all questions and corresponding answers will be moved to the EDC website on the specific topic/initiative’s page.

Locations and Registration
State Local Technical Assistance Program (LTAP) Centers will be arranging the locations and conducting registration for attendees. Persons interested in attending should contact their state LTAP Centers for location and registration information. Contact information for State LTAP Centers can be found at:
http://www.ltap.org/centers/

O.K. Got that? This is what is going on behind the scenes, under the radar, and making us all crazy. You have the Federal Transportation Agency director, or Fed DOT head, Ray Lahood, possibly participating in the indoctrination of local unelected boards on the subject of how to implement things you've never heard of, didn't vote for, and don't want.

Now some of this is pretty straight forward. For instance, geosynthetic soil reinforcements is not so crazy. Usually that means using recovered rubber and chopped up old pavement to reinforce the base soils of new roads....I think. Adaptive Signal Control Technologies is probably the latest thing in using optics to control traffic signals. So far I'm not upset. No idea what ROW is, so skipping that. But two things here need translation.

One of them is the topic titled "In lieu fees / Mitigation Banking. This is where the federal government is demanding bribes for building roads. If your community wants to widen a road or add a road, look out there Scout, you had better grab your wallet. Now I have no idea who figures out how much money or land banking you have to fork over to widen or add a road, but in some long ago, far away place known as America, this was not the practice. Not to be outdone, our State requires mitigation banking these days for road additions. Not sure if that is a Federal mandate, but from this "webinar" line-up, it looks like it may be. In case you don't know what that is, basically it involves setting aside land for conservation that will never be touched and remain pristine. You want to build a 5 mile road? Find the equivalent of 5 miles of land or precious resources such as water, creeks and the like. Then put it in on ice for perpetuity, never to be used by humans again for anything. Voilá! You just accomplished mitigation banking. Since the title of this "webinar" includes "In lieu fees," I assume that means if you can't come up with the land, you can buy your way out of this mandate, with taxpayer dollars of course. Cute, no?

Next up is the title, " National Transportation Innovation Network." Innovation sounds so cool, doesn't it? And who is NTIN? Another layer of bureaucracy we are paying for, no doubt. But the Federal DOT, from what I have been told, is using one third (1/3) of all transportation money on greenways and bike trails and paths / lanes. So how innovative is it to put mobility in terms of walking and biking? Hardly the fast track. I doubt this innovation involves cars that fly, though there is such a fabulous machine. (It's on my Christmas list, if anyone wants to buy me one!! Terrafugia) I think this innovation DOT speaks of is also involving electric car chargers. You know, now that we are subsidizing GM to make these little golf-carts for the highway, we have to make everyone pay for car charging stations everywhere.

Bottom line, here we have the FHWA bringing SME's to talk to EDC's and APWA's via state DOT's about NTIN. And if you can't figure that out, call your local LTAP! Got that? Good. Now we all know what we are doing. Right? Oops, I think I left out the CMGC. He's supposed to be on hand to keep you all straight. Whew.....how did we ever live without SME's and CMGC's......

You can carry on now! Just don't go too far on that Segway!

WHO IS IN CHARGE OF THE ASYLUM?

For two years I watched and listened to Glenn Beck's show on Fox. On that show he sent out warnings and exposed the "shadow government." I was not surprised, but rather grateful that he finally was telling the world what I had been learning through research for the previous two years prior to his show. Especially that he finally told the public what I had been reading on the evil George Soros. Finally.

Several times he mentioned a book called "The Coming Insurrection." I haven't read the book, but you can access it online. In fact, you can read and /or download the whole thing, if you are so inclined to read Communist Propaganda. Here it is It is basically a rant by anarchists who hate the world, reject history, and are simply in the mood to tear everything apart from stem to stern. This mood has come from somewhere, encouraged by global Marxists as we have seen in our universities. The book, though, is originating in France. As I read through some of it, I hear adolescent angst. The kind of angst that screams for a hearing, but has not enough understanding to know what it wants. It's even more immature in some ways, like a two year old's temper tantrum. The OWS folks are the manifestation of this fit of immature tantrum.

You can see what is being wreaked by insurrectionists, but can you see who they are and what their motivations are? The chaos has begun. But who is behind it? And to what end??

While the inmates are screaming at the top of their lungs, one of their leaders has taken our military to do his bidding. That leader being George Soros. (Watch what the other hand is doing.) It's no secret the Obama administration is supportive of and supporting the OWS protests. But are these protests just a distraction from what is going on behind the scenes? Are they an orchestrated attempt to pretend Obama is the "anti-capitalist" choice of the tantrum crowd?

How ironic then, while all of this is going on, Obama is using American military forces to go into Uganda and save victims of violence there. All of a sudden? That LRA group has been violently mutilating people in Uganda for twenty years. All of sudden it becomes a priority for the United States military? How did that happen?

"After President Barack Obama announced earlier this week that he would be sending American troops into Uganda, WND uncovered billionaire activist George Soros' ties both to the political pressure behind the decision and to the African nation's fledgling oil industry."

Soros Behind Uganda Military Operation

World Net Daily has an extensive and excellent report on this turn of events at that link. What I find so completely upside down and head banging insane, it that the protests are supposedly against the very things that the Obama administration is doing, has been doing, and has no intentions of doing otherwise. Pay to Play is the game of the day, while distracting the public with nonsense and idiots defecating on police cars. Obama is the king of crony capitalism, corporate welfare, and paying back his cronies now with the blood of our sons?? (Hopefully that won't happen, but I remember Somalia and Bosnia under Clinton...another crony capitalist.)

I just read an article, sent to me by a friend in New Mexico, about the CEO of the Nature Conservancy. The man's name is Mark Tercel. As it turns out, Mr. Tercel spent several years working for Goldman Sachs. Yes, that Goldman Sachs. The one we bailed out and brought forth the likes of Geithner. I am further seeing evidence that other heads of non-profit environmental organizations, who are taking millions of acres of private property with the cooperation of governments at all levels, are former bank executives. (This deserves further investigation, which I intend to discuss again soon.)

Banking and the environmental organizations?? Oil company investors and our military? Soros at the top of the heap, orchestrating the chaos?? Well, he has done it before and he continues on with his huge machine of willing idiots, hired guns, and Marxist ideologues. Whipping up useful idiots from campuses is just one of the ugly tools he wields.

You may think this post is all over the map, from OWS to Uganda to the environmental movement. But trust me, it's all part and parcel of the same thing, the same destructive force.

So, who is in charge of the asylum? The farther along we go, all fingers point to the same people. This doesn't look like it is going to end well. I think those in charge of the asylum are looking to burn down what they don't want to save, and keep the rest for themselves. Hang on for the ride.

QUICK QUESTION ON CAIN AND THE CONSUMPTION TAX

Just out of curiosity, I have a conundrum for you to consider. There are conservative Constitutional Tea Party types who have been, for the last two + years, up in arms over the idea that the Federal government is going to take all of our medical information and place it in a Federal data base for scrutiny by anonymous bureaucrats in order to control our health care.

So why is it, now that Herman Cain comes along and suggests that every financial and trade action that a private citizen takes should be placed into a Federal tax collection system, no one is up in arms about that? Where are the Tea Party people who find this to be an intrusion on our private lives and another assault on the 4th Amendment of the Constitution? Why is our medical information any more important on the privacy issue than every purchase we make? Who the heck are Herman Cain, Art Laffer, and Neal Boortz to say that reporting to the Federal government every time you buy a pack of gum, a beer, a haircut, or a box of nails is any business of the Federal government?

Buehler? Buehler?? Anyone??

And don't come after me with the idea that we have to report our income to the Federal government being any better or worse. I am saying that Cain's idea of the consumption tax is definitely worse and, in my estimation, an even greater intrusion than the reporting of income. The consumption tax is about behavior. And if you think the Federal bureaucrats are not into the power trip of controlling behaviors, then you haven't been listening to the woman who is married to the President of the United States, however illegitimate they both are. And you might be looking for the book by one of Mr. O's Czars, Cass Sunstein, called "Nudge." (I refuse to link that book here, but you can google it and find it for yourself.)

So, are there any sane Tea Partiers out there who see the problem here? Or am I the only one?

CAIN IS NOT MY MAN, AND NEITHER IS ROMNEY

I have to say that Herman Cain's rise to the top has been interesting to watch. He is a likeable personality, a highly successful businessman, and has captured some vocal quarters in the Republican Party and the Tea Party.

But at this point, I see Herman Cain as serving two purposes. He is the anti-Obama candidate of the day. Which proves the Tea Partiers and the Republicans are no where close to being racist. This was not needing to be proved, but I think there are those on the Republican side still trying to prove it. And being the anti-Obama candidate of the day means he is also the anti-Romney candidate of the day. (I say that because Romney and Obama are pretty much evil twins in my book.) Being the anti-Romney candidate is why Cain won the Florida Straw Poll. Conservatives are trying to show the RNC that they don't want Romney. Count me in on that. I don't want Romney and I'm sick of seeing him confidently defending the indefensible, which is Romneycare. The other night he proudly boasted that Massachusetts didn't have to raise taxes to implement Romneycare. What he didn't say was that insurance rates have increased 14% to cover the cost of Romneycare, so more of the poor and middle class cannot afford insurance. This is the basic set up of Obama's slide into government run health care, i.e. make private insurance unaffordable so the government is the only safety net and we end up with socialized medical care. Thank you so much Mitt Romney. I have to try hard not to throw my shoe at the television set every time he launches into the subject.

But back to Cain. 9-9-9 is the slippery slope into the Fair Tax. Just like Romneycare is the slippery slope into socialized health care, the Fair Tax is the slippery slope into government tracking of every consumer action in the U.S. with the attending new Federal taxes attached. Just what we need. Now you might argue that tracking is going on now anyway by virtue of credit card purchases. And you would be right. But, that tracking is not now used to sic the Federal government on you to collect yet another Federal tax.

Over to the right on my side bar is a link to a lengthy article on the Fair Tax Fraud. It's worth reading through if you are interested in the weeds of the matter. So, no matter how nice of a guy Herman Cain is, and no matter how much you are wishing for a tax reform plan, I believe this is a disaster in the making for the "American economic engine," as Cain puts it. The Socialists in Europe already have both, the VAT (government sales tax) and Socialized health care, and I don't notice that Europe is doing all that well these days.

I guess the bottom line here is this. I'm sick of the neo-cons in the RNC and the main stream media driving the nomination of the Republican candidate. I'm not in this so these powerful aliens to my everyday life can pick my candidate. Plus, the primary season is being moved up and the time we have to choose is growing closer. This means, those of us who have a different choice than these two current front runners better step up and get in there working to elect the one you want.

Who does this leave?? I have liked Bachmann, but she is not without flaws. Having said that, she is light years ahead of Cain and Romney in my book. I would choose her as second place. Having gone through all of my criteria and process of elimination, I am landing on Newt Gingrich as the best option. I can give you all of my reasons why in a later post. But my point is that if you are not in the tank for Romney or Cain (or Perry, who was another neo-con choice, as was Christie), then it is time to step up to the plate and start going to bat for the one you do want. We are running out of time to have our voices heard.

OCCUPIED? YES, WE ARE OCCUPIED.

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Now onto to the main message:

We are occupied everywhere, not just on Wall Street or Los Angeles or Boston, or Chicago. We've been occupied in our schools and universities, our public squares, our local governments, our professional organizations, and our daily lives by what seem like aliens who have taken over the country. I don't recognize these people. They don't seem like my countrymen. Boy, that sounds like paranoia, eh?? But wait a minute. What do I mean?

Does anyone know what is the point of the "occupiers" on Wall Street? They don't like fat cats? They don't like billionaires? They don't like millionaires? The don't like businesses? They don't like .....tea partiers? They don't like capitalism? What exactly about capitalism have these young, vocal, occupiers ever experienced, I wonder. What possesses a young person to sit around outside in front of buildings with signs and MAC laptops complaining about capitalism? Very curious indeed. But we are "occupied" with lots of these people. And what do they want? Sounds like they want more federal government occupation of the United States and they sure as heck don't want individual rights or individual economic success.

I helped organize a town hall for candidates for our tea party recently. The town hall took place last evening. All 6 of our council seats are up for grabs. And the mayor's position is available, too. 16 candidates, 3 of whom are for mayor, the rest for council were in attendance. We asked the candidates questions regarding what their views are on our city debt, taking grants and subsidies with strings, having a financial gun held to our heads by planners to adopt Smart Growth, consolidation with other unelected governance orgs., etc. I discovered that the majority of them are not at all concerned about the federal government controlling our city budget with mandates. A few were aware of that, but several of them just said this is the way it is and we might as well get used to it. Occupied. By the federal government in small town U.S.A. We do have a few candidates who see the hand-writing on the wall and are willing to step up and fight back. Just a few. And will they get elected? In an off year election?? Who knows.

I think for me the point of our town hall was to find out who the "occupiers" are and vote against them. Not just the incumbents, but those "occupiers" running for the seats. You see, this fight against "occupiers" is not just against the Federal government and the White House occupier, though that is a big part of it. This fight against "occupiers" is now in our home towns. And home towns are financially struggling, so "occupiers" promising buckets of money are not so rejected as you might like to think. American home towns are for sale? To "occupiers?"

Some of you might remember Mayberry RFD. That T.V. series was fiction, but somewhat based on and in a little town in North Carolina called Mt. Airy. Mt. Airy sits at the top of our state in a rural area. And, guess what? Unelected planning boards and an unelected city manager are threatening the city with doing it (the greenway) or ...losing grants and subsidies from the state and the feds. In the town in which I live, all of this advice comes through the city planning department and the city manager, too. All singing from the same songbook, about benefits of quality of life, about job creation, et al. I am giving this example of Mt. Airy because I want you to multiply Mt. Airy in your mind to every single small town, medium sized city, and large megalopolis in the country. The song is always the same.

"Commissioner Teresa Lewis also backed the plan, while responding to a comment by Anderson that if Mount Airy officials don’t accept the state funding, “someone else will.” As someone whose politics fall right of center, Lewis said she has problems with how big government operates and forces localities to play along in order to gain funding for worthy projects." ("worthy?" Says who?)

“We’re hearing here today that to play the game — and it’s really unfortunate and I don’t like it — is something we have to do.” Read more: Mount Airy News - City officials debate greenway connector costs

Who is she "hearing" that from?
"City Manager Barbara Jones informed board members and audience members early on that the $2.2 million from the state won’t fund the entire cost of the connection. “We’re anticipating this project to be four-million plus,” Jones said of the total price tag for the work to link the Emily B. Taylor and Ararat River greenways."

Read more: Mount Airy News - City officials debate greenway connector costs

Can Mt. Airy afford this greenway?? No. But they are "occupied," like the rest of us. Little Mt. Airy has to cough up $430,000.00 for this. But their state taxes and my state taxes will be paying for it, too.
"Specifically, board members had to decide not only whether to accept $2.2 million approved by the N.C. Department of Transportation for the connector project, but allocating $430,000 in city funding that also will be required.

Read more: Mount Airy News - City officials debate greenway connector costs

So is America "occupied?" By whom? It isn't just a few thousand misled and indoctrinated college students camping out on Wall Street. It is the Federal government camping out in your city planning department with a bucketful of money borrowed from other countries. And it is the tragic capitulation of council members and commissioners who can't seem to see the forest for the trees and realize what a fraud they are committing against the citizens in their towns and America by going along with this madness.