Please dont attack me- I want to give you a heads up - This is important stuff I don't fully underst

[Baobab]

34. That is what I was saying, the ACA has only quite marginally reduced those racial disparities.

Most urban residents last I looked, live in multifamily housing. Housing which ill be impacted by a huge sudden jump in natural gas prices. A not unlikely scenario would be it being lost. Sudden increase in cost could lead to the loss of the ability to use the "rent stabilization ordinance" nationally. Millions of people could suddenly, all at the same time be forced to look for market rate housing that did not exist.


Buying an older home is out of the means of a great many people and even if they do thanks to Kelo v. New London there is a significant chance that that value which they subsequently built up in making their neighborhood liveable and pleasant could be "captured" by a well connected real estate developer - Because its typically nice neighborhoods of well maintained older homes that are being targeted by "redevelopment" schemes. Thi has become legal now due to Kelo for the simple purpose of increasing tax revenues.

Free public education has also been targeted. Now that we are ending the era of work intensive manufacturing, the need for education has increased dramatically and the powers that be want to further squeeze society and the money that is collected for tax to fund public education is seen as a potential prize to other forms of rent seeking if public education could simply be eliminated. I have had ths argument with advicates of this several times. One person told me - and this stuck in my mind, that "it only gives" (poor people) "unrealistic expectations" - This is what we are dealing with as jobs go away. You may not see this fact but we all need to join together, not stay apart. If we want our future world to be the exciting, challenging, fulfilling place it will naturally become if we simply do what we should naturally do and lern and live and grow, we will get there. Its basically the advocates for an old, broken set of models that are trying to hold us back. Thats what the FTAs are. They are a war on much needed change and a war on a peaceful, equal future world without huge disparities. They want to lock down the future by preventing democratic change, the main function of democracy is to enable continuous, peaceful change.

In short the trade deals are a war on all of us but especially non white communities.