On change.gov: The Urban Policy agenda is back...

[Manedwolf]

The "make assault weapons ban permanent" line is still there, with the bit about foreign battlefields removed.

Which is ironic, because all the rest of the new content on the page, things about all-new public housing and worse, (reading between the lines, basically throwing up roadblocks to any gentrification in favor of government subsidized "affordability") would ensure that our cities will become 1970's battlefields once more. The other bits that would completely destroy manufacturing with "green" mandates and destroy small businesses by raising min wage to almost $10 by 2011, would be gasoline on the fire.

http://www.change.gov/agenda/urbanpolicy_agenda

Holy crap, are the next four years going to suck.

[Standing Wolf]

Address Gun Violence in Cities: Obama and Biden would repeal the Tiahrt Amendment, which restricts the ability of local law enforcement to access important gun trace information, and give police officers across the nation the tools they need to solve gun crimes and fight the illegal arms trade. Obama and Biden also favor commonsense measures that respect the Second Amendment rights of gun owners, while keeping guns away from children and from criminals. They support closing the gun show loophole and making guns in this country childproof. They also support making the expired federal Assault Weapons Ban permanent.

I've wondered from time to time why leftist extremists can't ever trouble themselves to come up with new lies. Considering how hard they work at posing as our moral and intellectual superiors, why are they such uncreative, repetitious people?

[Manedwolf]

I've wondered from time to time why leftist extremists can't ever trouble themselves to come up with new lies. Considering how hard they work at posing as our moral and intellectual superiors, why are they such uncreative, repetitious people?

They keep thinking socialism will work every time they try it again. Why are you expecting anything else for any other issue?

BTW, read the whole site, all the new stuff in the agenda. It's one massive chamber of statist horror, with vastly expanded "diversity is the most important goal" subsidies. :|

[Monkeyleg]

"diversity is the most important goal"

My wife is currently the VP of my one-man corporation, but my best friend's wife is black. I wonder how much the government would subsidize my business if I replaced my wife with my best friend's wife as VP?

[Tallpine]

My wife is currently the VP of my one-man corporation, but my best friend's wife is black. I wonder how much the government would subsidize my business if I replaced my wife with my best friend's wife as VP?

Not as much as the divorce will cost you ... 

[cassandra and sara's daddy]

not sure how it works now  but in the 80's i worked for roy jefferson  we thought him being black qualified us as a minority firm   we found out we needed to be certified by ......





wait for it







the reverend jessie jacksons group    "push"

and there was a fee


500 dollars



roy's celebrity status got him an audience where he asked jackson about it. the reply was "you gotta pay to play baby"  hence my nickname "reverend pay to play jackson"

[Lennyjoe]

Now hold on a second there Tallpine. Under Obama's wealth redistribution plan he would almost break even. The money and income he loses to the divorce would drive him to the poverty level. Hence his government check would cover such loses.

[roo_ster]

My wife is currently the VP of my one-man corporation, but my best friend's wife is black. I wonder how much the government would subsidize my business if I replaced my wife with my best friend's wife as VP?

A lot.

We routinely do work with/through/via/<insert preposition of choice> "small, minority, disadvantaged, blahblahblah" businesses.  Not because they are the best choice, but because many contracts require the use of such businesses.  There are quite a few set-asides and regs requiring their use.

[buzz_knox]

My wife is currently the VP of my one-man corporation, but my best friend's wife is black. I wonder how much the government would subsidize my business if I replaced my wife with my best friend's wife as VP?

Quite a bit.  My folk's have a store that sees a lot of business from a nearby gov't facility.  The store is in my father's name, and they were told if they transferred ownership to my mother, they'd receive far more business.  They refused, as this is my father's dream and my mother wouldn't take that from him, no matter what the financial reward is.

[Monkeyleg]

There are all sorts of rules and incentives for minority businesses, and a whole cottage industry has been set up.

I had a photography assignment for Hefty styrofoam dinner plates. The ads were targeted to black and Hispanics. Corporations over a certain size must use a certain percentage of minority-owned subcontractors. So there's a whole slew of minority advertising agencies that get their contracts because of those regulations.

I've found that the level of talent is much lower than at a "regular" ad agency. It's not that minorities don't have talent, but I suspect that any talented art director wouldn't want to be pigeonholed in that way, so the mediocre ones work at the minority agencies.

Absent the government regulations the agencies would probably fail because they don't know what they're doing.