Regulating us into Economic Destruction

In accordance with the law, the Executive Branch must document annually the number of new regulatory actions it plans for the coming year. The Administration’s current regulatory agenda has 4,257 new regulatory actions. At least 219 will have an economic impact of $100 million or more. That is an increase of nearly 15 percent over last year when it had 191. Americans have heard the Administration stating that some of these new economically significant regulations will have an economic impact of tens of billions of dollars. House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) sent a letter today, August 26, 2011, to President Obama, asking the White House to provide Congress before it returns this fall, with a list of all regulatory actions that would have an economic impact of $1 billion or more. Boehner sent a similar request for information last August 16, 2010 when he was the House Republican leader. The requested data was never provided.

Dudley says in Politico, “Some activity is required by new legislative mandates – particularly [Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform/Consumer Protection Act and Obamacare]. Others, including EPA’s regulation of greenhouse gases under the Clean Air Act, are based on new judicial interpretation of statutes passed 20 or more years ago – and do not necessarily reflect the priorities of any recent Congress. But some are discretionary actions, like EPA’s pending decision to tighten ozone standards. That is likely to slow economic growth in thousands of counties across the nation and impose costs of $20 billion to $90 billion per year, according to the agency’s own estimates.” Regulations are enacted every day by fiat by this administration and its various governmental agencies with or without congressional approval at such at dizzying speed that Americans no longer have the capacity to keep up with the sheer volume and correctly assess the negative impact that they have short-term or long-term on the U.S. economy, our sovereignty, private property, and our freedom.

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United Nations Agenda 21 driven initiatives are being forced on all communities across the country

Global warming, climate change, carbon credits, environmental sustainability, smart growth, smart grid, smart meters, sustainable communities, all United Nations Agenda 21 driven initiatives are being forced on all communities across the country at the local, state, and government level. There are no agencies left that have not yet adopted some sustainable plans. Flying in the face of our Constitution that protects private property, United Nations Agenda 21 believes in government control of our economy, environment, and social equity because “individual rights must take a back seat to the collective.” George Washington said, “Private property and freedom are inseparable.” John Adams proclaimed, “Property must be secured, or liberty cannot exist.” How much clearer can we state our collective desires to be free? We do not wish to be slaves to the United Nations; we are an independent constitutional republic. The UN General Assembly President, Joseph Deiss, does not understand our wishes to remain independent because he stated on August 10, 2011, speaking in Chile, that the UN must be reformed in order to “claim its rightful role in achieving more effective global governance in the 21st century.” Mr. Deiss underlined “the UN’s essential role as the unique umbrella for the whole system of global governance due to its universality, unique legitimacy and its value-based nature.” As a free American citizen, I am opposed to UN’s values of abolishing private property and installation of collectivization under global government control. Yet on September 22, 2010, the President signed a Presidential Policy Directive on Global Development, the first of its kind by a U.S. administration. This is a policy focused on “sustainable development outcomes,” the hallmark of United Nation’s Agenda 21. The directive is to “use U.S. leadership in the multilateral development banks, U.N. agencies, other international organizations, other donors, foundations, nongovernmental organizations, the private sector, and other stakeholders to deploy the full range of our development tools and policies at our disposal.” We are to “place greater emphasis on building sustainable capacity in the public sectors of our partners and at their national and community levels to provide basic services over the long-term. How about providing services to our bankrupted economy?

United Nations schemes to steal our property and destroy our economy

Because Congress does not agree to all of these United Nations schemes to steal our property and destroy our economy, they are being passed by fiat, executive orders, proclamations, directives, and generous grants given to local communities who are suffering under our depressed, mismanaged economy. The latest example of collaborative effort to “invest” (read “force”) in sustainable communities was announced on August 17, 2011 between HUD and EPA and involved $5.65 million grant “competitively awarded to eight organizations.” Each grantee was uniquely qualified to “build the capacity of sustainable communities in six outcome areas.”

• The Institute for Sustainable Communities from Montpelier, VT will “create a National Sustainability Learning Network”
• The University of Louisville Research Foundation, Inc. from Louisville, KY will “address the need for incorporating water infrastructure planning and investments with other planning efforts”
• The Coalition of Utah’s Future/Project 2000 from Salt Lake City, UT will “work to build skills in Scenario Planning techniques and tools”
• Reconnecting America in Washington, D.C. will “develop effective implementation strategies for economic development and local and regional plans”
• PolicyLink in Oakland, Ca and Place Matters, Inc. in Denver, CO will “work with communities to advance social equity in planning, participation, and decision making”

The NADO Research Foundation in Washington, D.C. and the Minnesota Housing Partnership in St. Paul, MN will “target their efforts in strengthening sustainability practices for tribes, small towns, and rural places.” Having seen such plans in action under communism, when they confiscated our land, property, money in the name of collectivization, and being a thorough researcher of UN’s Agenda 21, I can recognize its nefarious goals and plans. I wish other Americans could see that these Orwellian, euphemistically named programs and grants are nothing but economic shakedowns, aimed at destroying our freedom and turning us into a “fundamentally changed” Amerika.