Obama to Create White House Office of Urban Policy

In addition to crime, I can see in the proposed Office of Urban Policy an oversight of all funds directed to solve city problems. Too much money goes to greedy administrators, fraud and corruption. Of course, that assumes the overseers are going to be honest.

Posted by: Shockolit
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Itis ging to be EXACTLY like the Dept. of Ed. Instead of its chief advocate being the NEA, it will be ACORN!

The dept of Ed has squandered trillions since its creation, and the result is the dumbing down of this great country!

This new Dept. will do for the inner cities what the Dept of Ed has done to our schools !

In addition to crime, I can see in the proposed Office of Urban Policy an oversight of all funds directed to solve city problems. Too much money goes to greedy administrators, fraud and corruption. Of course, that assumes the overseers are going to be honest.

So much liberal wealth envy. Typical!

If Kwame just could've held on a few more months!

"How about some facts."
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More evidence on how easy it is to only tell part of the story!

A. Obama is talking about "urban" not "metropolitan"!

B. From the same article :

"But the 1910 census was the last one in which rural Americans represented a majority of the population; these days, we've become a thoroughly metropolitan nation. Two-thirds of our population lives in the top 100 metropolitan areas, and 84 percent of Americans live in all 363 metros. Being in a metro means being tied to someplace else; the Census Bureau defines metropolitan areas as a city of 50,000 or more, plus the adjacent counties that have close social and economic ties to the urban core."

Obama is not talking about this dopey department helping those adjacent counties! This thing is going to be another liberal earmark to eat money and produce no viable solutions, while it promises to make inner city & urban areas better.

We have been hearing this for decades, with no real results other than a lot of money wasted!

How about some facts.

"Two-thirds of our population lives in the top 100 metropolitan areas, and 84 percent of Americans live in all 363 metros."

"America's small-town romance has outlived its accuracy by at least 100 years."

“Self-sufficient small towns don't need mass transit and high-speed rail networks, but interconnected metros do. A politician who ignores this economic and demographic reality risks making serious policy mistakes, such as misdirecting the public investments that we need to survive in an era of intense global competition."

For a good article, Google
"We aren't a nation of small towns"

It has been a week since the defeat and some of you GOPers arestill very bitter, clinging to your vile insults of President-Elect Obama.

When is this gonna end.

Please cling to your Bibles instaed and pray to the good Lord Almighty to help you "get over it".

It is painful I know, but the sooner you get over it the better for your health.

Posted by: Steve_NJ

Steve,

As a typical liberal, you once again confuse the issues and have zero understanding of the real world.

The last thing this country needs is another federal department of anything. All this is amounts to is yet another hole the bucket of our tax dollars for yet another failed liberal social experiment. You & Obama had better figure out fast that the bucket is already empty and we can't aford anymore dopry liberal ideas.

It has been a week since the defeat and some of you GOPers arestill very bitter, clinging to your vile insults of President-Elect Obama.

When is this gonna end.

Please cling to your Bibles instaed and pray to the good Lord Almighty to help you "get over it".

It is painful I know, but the sooner you get over it the better for your health.

You know this is really ironic. Have any of his people seen his district in Chicago? Has anyone ever read the Chicago newspapers? What about the money given to developers only to have the properties fall into disrepair, only to give the developers more money. This is how he knows Valerie Jarrett.

Also ironic is all the flack the Governor has taken about using his airplane. The Obamas took separate private airplanes to Washington, but arrived at the White House in the same limo to hide the fact? Michelle wanted to check out the private schools? Hmm. Wake up people.

When we can walk the streets of our cities safely, we will have won a great internal war. Let us hope that urban crime will be one of the main foci of this newly created office.

Perhaps, our Greatest Leader really has seen that HUD did not work so well. He will take a new approach, make it up side down, or front side back.

Let's give it a try for his DUH.

Now his half brother, half aunt can fend for themselves, not a big enough picture and apparently the generosity fails him when the numbers are not big enough. I was shocked to see where his grandmother lived. If I had been Obama I would have taken care of her like a queen, but then as he said in his book, he wanted to distance himself from his Mother's white side and I guess he did that. Shrewd man. Scary but hey he's what the majority of America wanted.

Posted by: Maggie | Nov 12, 2008 12:08:23 PM
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Indeed. Apparently he had decided to distance himself from his Father's black side, too.

Of course, he will not distance himself from us 95% Middle Class of a united state. We are his base to fight against you 5% filthy rich lawyers and bourgeoisie capitalists.

Most urban areas are and have historically been run by Democrats, lock stock and barrel. Most are also broke and crime-ridden, as a result of those Democrat administrations with their failed policies and cronyism. Their situations have nothing to do with Republican policies or the Federal government except to be given more money to waste and send down a rat hole. So how is more of the same of that from Obama going to help? The Office of Urban Planning is nothing but Obama keeping his promise to Acorn to give them a policy setting role in the government, even though he lied and tried to minimize his relationship with that fraudulant, militant, Marxist organization all through the campaign. Are we suckers or what for electing this guy.

Michelle, you do have a good point. But, Obama apparently looks at the "big" picture. In order to get to a second term, he has to politically feed those 40% he promised to take care of. He's just delivering on his promise. Now his half brother, half aunt can fend for themselves, not a big enough picture and apparently the generosity fails him when the numbers are not big enough. I was shocked to see where his grandmother lived. If I had been Obama I would have taken care of her like a queen, but then as he said in his book, he wanted to distance himself from his Mother's white side and I guess he did that. Shrewd man. Scary but hey he's what the majority of America wanted.

HUD is probably different than what this would be intended for. Urban centers have specific problems and solutions.

I'd like to see Akif Malik, the guy who had the Olympic bid vision for Chicago back in the early 90's, get involved in something like this for Obama. Someone like him has the big picture understanding of transforming urban areas with solutions that have direct and indirect benefits.

WOW...just we need...ANOTHER government agency to screw things up even more!

Change we need....

This is just the same as when Carter created the Dept of Education in 1979! Yeah...that Really worked Well !!!!

Today we have a school system that can't produce kids who understand basic math and expect "someone" to help them whenever something hard comes along! No wonder there are more people becoming democrats, they still want someone to do the homework for them.

You know I saw this coming as anyone with ears should have. Handouts, and we all know Obama's black voters are his target community. Yeah, his net will include some non-blacks but that has been his agenda all along. But you know what? I'm time for the black community to have reason to gloat, and hopefully reason to crawl out of poverty with a boost. If we are going to go down economically, we might as well go down at least making a good attempt to help those that if given a job, a decent place to live and hope for a future, maybe they will get out of the 40% of American's who don't pay taxes bracket. Maybe we will see a return on this investment. I'm not for handouts and I certainly will not benefit from his plan, but I'm just tired of hearing how ignored, down trodden, no opportunities, drug ridden and so on the black community is. Let's give it a try. No, I did not vote for Obama, with 21 years of legal experience behind me I heard more than the average excited voter did to be part of a historic moment. I heard what he said and all I'm surprised about is how quickly he is putting his plans in motion. He's a Socialist for sure, he told you all along and now he's President. If the poor blow it, well it will truly be a historic moment because no one will support this type of program full heartedly again. One rule I do have as an American, short of him putting kids in uniforms and singing his praises every morning in Obama military school, I do believe in supporting the person this country voted to be their leader. I'll support him until he starts ruling and not governing.

Obama didn't help the poor constituents in his own
Chicago district. They lived in deplorable conditions.

Dear Sandra

I do not think President Bush had a thing to do with the mess in the urban core.

Oh, congratulations to Jake!
You have been a bright spot this political season. You've made me laugh and you've made me mad.