Given how much Trump lies, the Dem 2024 media campaign must not ignore nuances in Trump’s framing, since he’s riffing on a secret plan by Silicon Valley billionaires to build a new city in Solano County. He’s proposed Freedom Cities because driving the deficit higher and exploiting federal lands is supposedly good for the national and regional economies. His Agenda 47 provides an elaboration of the whiteboard lists that Steve Bannon created in his time at the White House.
38% of Native reservations do not have water or sanitation facilities. At least 930,000 persons in US cities lacked sustained access to at least basic sanitation and 610,000 to at least basic water access, as defined by the UN
Does anyone really think it would be a good idea for America to use precious federal land to develop 10 new cities, based on the advice of a man with the business savvy to have bankrupted six companies, including three casinos?
Streets would be renamed in honor of "great American patriots" while the homeless, on threat of arrest, would be sent to tent cities on "large parcels of inexpensive land.”
“We’ll actually build new cities in our country again,” Trump said in a video. “These freedom cities will reopen the frontier, reignite American imagination, and give hundreds of thousands of young people and other people, all hardworking families, a new shot at home ownership and in fact, the American dream.”
Chris Rupkey, chief economist at markets research firm FwdBonds, said Trump’s proposed economic plan is reflective of the onetime real estate developer’s efforts before taking office.
“Builders build and make dreams a reality, but this plan looks like a stretch because the country cannot afford to undertake massive new projects when the national debt is over $31 trillion,” Rupkey said in an email. “There are some interesting ideas here, but this is not the right time for bold plans that dream big. There’s no money left in Uncle Sam’s till to pay for big dreams and daring projects.”
The nation is in the midst of a “cost-of-living crisis” that makes this too expensive of a proposition, Rupkey added.
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Russian authorities will launch construction of a village outside Moscow for conservative-minded Americans and Canadians next year, the state-run RIA Novosti news agency reported Thursday.
Russia has for years positioned itself as a bastion of "traditional" values in contrast with Western liberalism as its relations with the West have deteriorated over its 2014 annexation of Crimea and 2022 full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
Timur Beslangurov, a migration lawyer at Moscow’s VISTA Foreign Business Support, claimed that “around 200 families” wish to emigrate to Russia for “ideological reasons.”
“The reason is propaganda of radical values: Today they have 70 genders, and who knows what will come next,” RIA Novosti quoted Beslangurov as saying, echoing President Vladimir Putin’s frequently deployed grievances against Western countries’ comparative gender freedom.
“Many normal people emigrate and are considering Russia, but they’re faced with huge bureaucratic problems with Russia’s migration law,” he said.
He said the Moscow region administration has greenlit the construction of the expat village and that it will be financed by the relocating families.
(March 2023)
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