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Comprehensive Planning
Which came first the Chicken or the Egg?
To ancient philosophers, the question about the first chicken or egg also evoked the questions of how life and the universe in general began.
Do the City Planners shape the cities, or do they shape us?
Future generations may be asking this question...who shaped what or whom?
The Lafayette Consolidated Government Administration has signed a $1.2M contract with Wallace, Roberts and Todd, a planning firm based in Pennsylvania. Over the next 18 months this firm, as well as other interested parties will be involved in meeting with the citizens in Lafayette and surrounding communities to inform and to learn from them.
Next Week, April 16th - 20th there will be a series of meetings throughout the parish. It is important for all citizens in the community to attend and to become informed about what this Comprehensive Plan will affect each of you. Click here for a schedule of these meetings: Comprehensive Planning Forums.
It is important that the each citizen understand how a twenty-year comprehensive plan will affect your property rights. TEA Party of Lafayette has two members appointed to the Citizens Advisory Committee and we will be sending information to you on a regular basis.
STAY TUNED.....
Government Comprehensive Planning - What Is It?
Jeremiah Supple:
On Government Comprehensive Planning
Planning is a good thing, but government planning rarely works out. Comprehensive government planning utilizes fads and pseudo-science to sell ideas that don't work, for projects that people don't want, spending money we don't have. The $1.2 million down payment on the comprehensive plan may have been better spent on a new fire station.
City-Parish President Joey Durel is suggesting that the opponents of comprehensive planning believe in a "UN conspiracy" to take over government. Please. Not the conspiracy theories again. With all due respect, Mr. Mayor, that is not the way to start an honest conversation. As a commercial property owner and opponent, the only conspiracy I am concerned with is lot closer to home.
As I evaluate local real-estate market risks, the only risk that concerns me is government. Government has done more harm to real estate markets that any recession. Comprehensive planning means that government will pick winners and losers involving hundreds of millions of dollars. This is done in an environment where our local government has had traces of cronyism.
Collectivism is a failed model. Economically Lafayette is poised to shine nationally, but not from anything that government has done. Lafayette's economic success is due largely to the quality of her people and to her entrepreneurial spirit that has been here since the days Maurice Heymann created The Oil Center. "Progressive" politicians are already asking to raise tax rates and utility rates (the hidden tax) to cover their "progressive" missteps. This only threatens that very valuable, coveted entrepreneurial spirit that we enjoy like no one else.
Government just can't do it. Not because of the capability of the people involved, but because of the nature of politics.
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We need fire stations, not a master plan
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MORNING BELL: THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION
Agenda 21 and the Threat in Your Backyard
Ready to trade in your car for a bike, or maybe a subway instead? Interested in fewer choices for your home, paying more for housing, and being crammed into a denser neighborhood? You can have all this and more if radical environmentalists and "smart growth" advocates have their way and local, state, and the federal government impose the policies set forth in the United Nations' Agenda 21.
You might have heard of this nefarious-sounding policy in a recent Republican presidential debate, but even if you haven't, here's some background information: Agenda 21 is a voluntary plan adopted at the 1992 United Nations Conference on Environment and Development. It calls on governments to intervene and regulate nearly every potential impact that human activity could have on the environment. The end goal? Getting governments to "rethink economic development and find ways to halt the destruction of irreplaceable natural resources and pollution of the planet."
As adopted, Agenda 21 was described as "a comprehensive plan of action to be taken globally, nationally and locally by organizations of the United Nations System, Governments, and Major Groups in every area in which human impacts on the environment.".... read more....
NO HIGHER HONOR
by Condoleezza Rice
Donated by Acadiana Republican Women
From one of the world’s most admired women, this is former National Security Advisor and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice’s compelling story of eight years serving at the highest levels of government. In her position as America’s chief diplomat, Rice traveled almost continuously around the globe, seeking common ground among sometimes bitter enemies, forging agree- ment on divisive issues, and compiling a remarkable record of achievement.
A native of Birmingham, Alabama who overcame the racism of the Civil Rights era to become a brilliant academic and expert on foreign affairs, Rice distinguished herself as an advisor to George W. Bush during the 2000 presidential campaign. Once Bush was elected, she served as his chief adviser on national-security issues – a job whose duties included harmonizing the relationship between the Secretaries of State and Defense. It was a role that deepened her bond with the President and ultimately made her one of his closest confidantes.
With the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, Rice found herself at the center of the Administration’s intense efforts to keep America safe. Here, Rice describes the events of that harrowing day – and the tumultuous days after. No day was ever the same. Additionally, Rice also reveals new details of the debates that led to the war in Afghanistan and then Iraq.
The eyes of the nation were once again focused on Rice in 2004 when she appeared before the 9-11 Commission to answer tough questions regarding the country’s preparedness for – and immediate response to – the 9-11 attacks. Her responses, it was generally conceded, would shape the nation’s perception of the Administration’s competence during the crisis. Rice conveys just how pressure-filled that appearance was and her surprised gratitude when, in succeeding days, she was broadly saluted for her grace and forthrightness.
From that point forward, Rice was aggressively sought after by the media and regarded by some as the Administration’s most effective champion.
In 2005 Rice was entrusted with even more responsibility when she was charged with helping to shape and carry forward the President’s foreign policy as Secretary of State. As such, she proved herself a deft crafter of tactics and negotiation aimed to contain or reduce the threat posed by America’s enemies. Here, she reveals the behind-the-scenes maneuvers that kept the world’s relationships with Iran, North Korea and Libya from collapsing into chaos. She also talks about her role as a crisis manager, showing that at any hour — and at a moment’s notice — she was willing to bring all parties to the bargaining table anywhere in the world.
No Higher Honor takes the reader into secret negotiating rooms where the fates of Israel, the Palestinian Authority, and Lebanon often hung in the balance, and it draws back the curtain on how frighteningly close all-out war loomed in clashes involving Pakistan-India and Russia-Georgia, and in East Africa.
Surprisingly candid in her appraisals of various Administration colleagues and the hundreds of foreign leaders with whom she dealt, Rice also offers here keen insight into how history actually proceeds. In No Higher Honor, she delivers a master class in statecraft — but always in a way that reveals her essential warmth and humility, and her deep reverence for the ideals on which America was founded.
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FREEDOM OF CONSCIENCE AND FREEDOM OF RELIGION ARE UNDER ATTACK
The recent controversy surrounding ObamaCare is not about contraception, as the Administration would like us to believe. Rather, the Catholic
Church believes that it is unconstitutional for the government to FORCE them to offer and PAY for birth control pills, sterilization, and abortion inducing drugs for their.. .read more
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