RNC must tackle corporate/government land schemes and migrant homeownership

The replacement of middle class American citizens as homeowners is well under way. Starting with out-of-control inflation pricing housing beyond their reach, fuelled by record government spending, massive corporate entities have been furtively acquiring residential properties across the board. Under cover of online real estate purveyors like Opendoor and Zillow, monster asset management firms Blackrock, Vanguard and others are driving the market.

Priorities of Biden and his administration are upside-down on every level. In an article by E.J. Antoni and Caden Wolf, Biden’s determination to toss Trump’s tax relief and institute higher tax rates affecting middle class retirees, gutting their savings, compels wealthy and corporate land buyers to secure assets by purchasing homes and rentals. “The problem for the middle class is that the increased demand for real estate on the part of the wealthy will drive up demand for housing and put upward pressure on prices. That will exacerbate the homeownership affordability crisis already afflicting millions of Americans.”

Under Biden’s tenure, employment, housing, healthcare, education and welfare benefits have profited the foreign-born, including illegal entrants, above that of American citizens, especially veterans. Cheap labor for corporate giants is supplied while economy-busting policies are crushing the entrepreneurial spirit among the population groups who built the wealth of this nation.

With the Biden administration celebrating over reports of new jobs growth, it has neglected to mention the majority of those positions have gone to immigrants while native-born Americans have lost employment. The worsening situation is forcing struggling families to sell their assets, of which their home holds the greatest equity, leaving them to contend with the rapidly rising cost of rentals. Profit-oriented corporate entities have taken advantage of administration policies to dominate the lion’s share of rental properties. Flipping the coin, these corporations stand ready to purchase homes from beleaguered sellers seeking immediate relief, setting up their controlling interest in the whole housing market.

The result is a changing demographic among first-time homeowners that’s becoming evident at the neighborhood level.

Taking a walk around established and new subdivisions, a growing number of residents encountered are immigrants. With 10 million Biden-invited border crashers over the last three-and-a-half years, it’s not outlandish to assume illegal status is highly possible among those residents, many of whom have an unwillingness to interact with English-speaking neighbors.

Before being provoked by the previous comments, the following information must be digested.

Non-citizens, as soon as they enter the country (legally or illegally) are recipients of benefits from Social Security, WIC, Medicare, Medicaid (Obamacare), SNAP, etc. Following the Biden administration’s lead, housing is being supplied to so-called migrants on multiple levels. Upon entering the country, NGOs and sanctuary cities have directed high-end hoteliers to cater exclusively to migrants, regardless of status or vetting.

In California, financing is being provided for illegals to obtain home mortgages while tax-paying citizens are underwriting the cost and losing their own houses in the declining economy. And this is a byproduct of the apparent rationale for inviting the invasion. The underlying purpose looks to be the expected harvesting of millions of ballots mailed to non-citizens illegally being registered to vote, because most will gladly hand over the ballots to democrat operatives rather than mark and deliver the ballots themselves. Why wouldn’t they, since it’s democrat policy that’s supplying government funding for all their good fortune?

The disenfranchisement of American citizens’ property rights does not end there.

There is a vast effort to take property from generational landowners underway, utilizing a misapplication of the Fifth Amendment.

By employing climate change theory, governmental agencies have already initiated usurpation of water rights from productive farming and ranching operations across “red” states, and the republican polity is heavily involved.

The water saving program in Idaho can essentially tie hands and overcharge farmers for water usage, putting them out of business, even in a year with above average snowpack. Governor Brad Little’s executive order to rein in the Idaho Water Resources Board from curtailing groundwater users for 2024, means Idaho potatoes won’t become an endangered species and, thus, an expensive delicacy, at least for this year.

It's only a stopgap effort when governmental agencies undercut food producers. The real question is who is using the water that's supposedly creating a potential shortfall? It's probably not the growers but, more likely, the uncontrolled housing boom taking place across Idaho as Left Coast refugees buy up farmland for new subdivisions.

Other states are experiencing similar problems for growers. In Indiana, over 345,000 acres of farmland has been repurposed for business, residential uses and, of course, solar farms.

In Oregon, an admittedly democrat-run state, legislators haved redefined what constitutes an agricultural enterprise, essentially driving small market growers out of business, including those who grow produce or raise animals for private consumption. Regulating water usage fees that only a large scale operation can afford, the state is systematically pricing individual growers and self-reliant families into financial problems.

Meantime, DHS is developing war games based on so-called climate change scenarios that create water and energy shortages, as uncovered by Natalie Winters. In truth, these situations would only occur if progressive eco-proponents and government programs are implemented that are set to remove reservoirs provided by clean power-generating dams. In the northwest, the dam breaching movement has been pushed for years supposedly to save fish and/or farming. The actual outcome of such programs would devastate farming, and, in so doing, decimate food production by cutting off irrigation and electricity imperative to growing crops.

The issue isn't only about water and power supply. It's about the taking of private land under the guise of climate change, such as building futile carbon capture pipelines across South Dakota, Iowa and other states. The carbon credit scheme to steal land from farmers reduces agricultural production to line corporate pockets. It’s the ultimate snipe hunt. Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo that overturned the Chevron Doctrine should impact the eminent domain ruling in Iowa and other executive agency regulations. Climate change policy has no constitutional basis of providing for the national defense or the public benefit.

Appropriation of private property rights should be given a spotlight at the upcoming Republican National Convention. The Republican Party Platform, which is currently holding to the 2016 platform, states this:

“The Framers of our government knew, from history and experience, that when private property is not secure, freedom is at risk. That is why the Fifth Amendment declares that private property may not be “taken for public use without just compensation,” The Supreme Court’s Kelo decision undermined this safeguard by allowing local governments to seize a person’s home and land not vital for public use, but also for “public purpose,” which thus allowed the government to seize it for transfer to private developers or other private entities. We call on any state legislatures that have not already done so to nullify the impact of Kelo within the jurisdiction by legislation or state constitutional amendments declaring that private property may be taken ONLY for true public use, and we join House Republicans in supporting the Private Property Rights Protection Act.

The government at every level must always pay just compensation whenever it takes private property to achieve a compelling public use, with money coming from the budget of the agency performing the taking. This includes the taking of water rights and the taking of property by environmental regulations that destroy or diminish the property’s value.” (Emphasis, mine.)

Growers are under duress to stay afloat as governmental agencies kowtow to the ludicrous concept that CO2 must be captured and stored rather than allowed into the atmosphere to feed the vegetation that feeds us. It may be that sequestration and storage methods work, but the goal is offensive to all life on this planet, not just humanity.

With all the governmental taking of private property rights and denying water rights, there is no constitutional implementation of "just compensation." In too many instances, crop and stock growers are being placed in the untenable position of losing access to their own land, placing them on the brink of, or in bankruptcy. Ranches and farms that have been in families for generations are losing out to corporate growers and, of all things, useless pipelines moving invisible gases underground for the "good of the environment."

The stated intent is oppositional to the constitutional protection of private property and, when viewed pragmatically, does not adhere to the concept of compelling public benefit, let alone public use. Neither is provable. Carbon capture technologies serve one purpose: that of monetary gain for the corporations that build them.

The Republican party had best get on board to divest power from and, in many circumstances, eliminate agencies that undermine the rights of the individual as clarified in the Constitution.

Former newspaper publisher, A. Dru Kristenev, grew up in the publishing industry working every angle of a paper, from ad composition and sales, to personnel management, copy writing, and overseeing all editorial content. During her tenure as a news professional, Kristenev traveled internationally as a representative of the paper and, on separate occasions, non-profit organizations. Since 2007, Kristenev has authored five fact-filled political suspense novels, the Baron Series, and two non-fiction books, all available on Amazon. Carrying an M.S. degree and having taught at premier northwest universities, she is the trustee of Scribes’ College of Journalism, which mission is to train a new generation of journalists in biblical standards of reporting. More information about the college and how to support it can be obtained by contacting Kristenev at cw.o@earthlink.net.

ChangingWind (changingwind.org) is a solutions-centered Christian ministry.

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