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Tag: Visioning

How Grand

By JGillman, Section News
Posted on Mon Jun 20, 2011 at 02:41:13 PM EST
Tags: Grand Traverse County, Grand Vision, Socialism, Agenda 21, Michigan, Grand Traverse, Sustainable Growth, Smart Growth, Visioning, Private Property (all tags)

I have tried to write this a thousand times. I am hoping it is understandable and sufficiently succinct.

The nature of the way that government is influenced is becoming incredibly complicated.

For the average person, it is often nearly too complicated to correctly know what certain groups represent, or WHY they wish to advance government in a particular direction, other than what might be stated as a flowery and appealing descriptive. Positive reflections of outcomes wished for detailed in descriptive titles.

Grand Visions. Sustainable Growth. Smart Growth. Regional Collaboration. Visioning.

How could anything be wrong with that? No one wants "bleak Visions," "corrosive growth," or stupid growth," or even "regional disagreement," right? The descriptive labels can be misleading. The method for deciding what growth is "smart," or who's vision we shall follow, is unfortunately-too-often a bit of a travel through the socialist myopic lens. One that means that we must all collaborate on what our neighbors should be allowed to do. Control of our community resources so that all (including our generational beneficiaries) may equally benefit, no matter their contribution. Excluding those of course, who cannot survive the onslaught of new limits to their own plans.

Its sometimes hard to explain all the ways in which this happens, so that people understand the insidious nature in which their best participatory intentions are twisted into a socialist Utopian tool.

It requires a step back and an arms length review of the elements in play.

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