Trump calls for contest to create futuristic ‘Freedom Cities’

[Kamaji]

All I'm saying is try not to allow disappoinment, cynicism and fear to consume you.  For once, try encouraging those willing to put fresh eyes on a solution ----- motivate them to venture outside the box you created in a desperate attempt to control a messy world.

Promising to waste trillions of dollars the U.S. taxpayer does not have building a concept that was invented in the 1920s, and was shown to be a failure by the 1990s, at best, is not a matter of putting fresh eyes on a solution, it's a matter of buying into failure.

[DefiantMassRINO]

 

How about Mogadishu, Somolia?  Not much pesky Government interference there.  Not very much Government, period.

[berdie]

Their attempt to control a messy world. ?????

I sincerely hope you didn't mean this like it sounds.@Right_in_Virginia.

[Kamaji]

How about Mogadishu, Somolia?  Not much pesky Government interference there.  Not very much Government, period.

Certainly government has a role to play; I don't see anyone saying otherwise; but that role doesn't include building a planned boondoggle on federal land where no city currently exists.  That was done in various decades in the 20th Century, and almost all of those planned cities ended up being failures.

[Right_in_Virginia]

Trump has frequently spoken of American innovation, uniqueness, courage.  He's done so not only at rallies for years, he included this theme in the 2020 SOTU address. 

The American nation was carved out of the vast frontier by the toughest, strongest, fiercest, and most determined men and women ever to walk on the face of the Earth. Our ancestors braved the unknown; tamed the wilderness; settled the Wild West; lifted millions from poverty, disease, and hunger; vanquished tyranny and fascism; ushered the world to new heights of science and medicine; laid down the railroads, dug out the canals, raised up the skyscrapers. And, ladies and gentlemen, our ancestors built the most exceptional republic ever to exist in all of human history, and we are making it greater than ever before.

This is our glorious and magnificent inheritance. We are Americans. We are pioneers. We are the pathfinders. We settled the New World, we built the modern world, and we changed history forever by embracing the eternal truth that everyone is made equal by the hand of Almighty God.

America is the place where anything can happen. America is the place where anyone can rise. And here, on this land, on this soil, on this continent, the most incredible dreams come true.

This nation is our canvas, and this country is our masterpiece. We look at tomorrow and see unlimited frontiers just waiting to be explored. Our brightest discoveries are not yet known. Our most thrilling stories are not yet told. Our grandest journeys are not yet made. The American Age, the American Epic, the American adventure has only just begun.

Our spirit is still young, the sun is still rising, God’s grace is still shining, and, my fellow Americans, the best is yet to come.


President Donald J. Trump
February 4, 2020

[Right_in_Virginia]

Their attempt to control a messy world. ?????

I sincerely hope you didn't mean this like it sounds.@Right_in_Virginia.

I have no way of knowing what you heard @berdie

[libertybele]

Their attempt to control a messy world. ?????

I sincerely hope you didn't mean this like it sounds.@Right_in_Virginia.

Trump needs to realize that the powers afforded to him as a president are limited.  He is not a dictator, controller and certainly not an authoritarian.

[berdie]

I have no way of knowing what you heard @berdie

I didn't hear anything @Right_in_Virginia . I was questioning your post #49.

For this evening...I'm gone. But I will really like to see what you think.

[libertybele]

This isn't 1962, and we aren't that country. This is bread and circuses when we got larger problems, and don't need to add more to them.

Let's start fixing what we have first.

 

[libertybele]

The Space Force is necessary, however, I'm afraid those 'Freedom Cities' will end up those Ghost Cities like the ones in China



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mt-Pa5s5zZI

Agreed.

[DefiantMassRINO]

Central Government city planning was attempted in the 1950s and 1960s.  Much current infrastructure spending has to be allocated to fixing the problems that 1950s and 1960s "Urban Renewal" caused.

Tangerine Mussolini wants to build "Freedom Cities" as a real estate scam that enriches the Trump Organization and other real estate development interests.

[libertybele]

Central Government city planning was attempted in the 1950s and 1960s.  Much current infrastructure spending has to be allocated to fixing the problems that 1950s and 1960s "Urban Renewal" caused.

Tangerine Mussolini wants to build "Freedom Cities" as a real estate scam that enriches the Trump Organization and other real estate development interests.

Him wanting to fatten his wallet is a given.

[Right_in_Virginia]

I didn't hear anything @Right_in_Virginia . I was questioning your post #49.

For this evening...I'm gone. But I will really like to see what you think.

Put another way:. What about my post are you questioning @berdie

[Right_in_Virginia]

Him wanting to fatten his wallet is a given.

This is beneath you @libertybele

[bigheadfred]

If we were to build some new futuristic city let's do it on the moon.

Failing that we could annex, overtake, or flat overrun one of the Alien cities/bases already there.   

[roamer_1]

There was a time when America embraced a challenge . I imagine many in 1962 thought landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to Earth by the end of the decade was ridiculous and a waste of money.

Don't be afraid of engaging the dreamers and innovators among us; encourage them.

Oh HELL NO.
We can't afford his ridiculous dream.

Stop taking other peoples' money unnecessarily.
Stop growing this overweening federal government.

[roamer_1]

And don't forget Trump's insistance that we have flying cars.   I always wanted to be one of the Jetsons.  Heck I might get a dog named Astro too.   

Oooh WAIT!

ELECTRIC flying cars!   

  

[roamer_1]

All I'm saying is try not to allow disappoinment, cynicism and fear to consume you.  For once, try encouraging those willing to put fresh eyes on a solution ----- motivate them to venture outside the box you created in a desperate attempt to control a messy world.

Booming federal government is NEVER a solution.

N.E.V.E.R.

[libertybele]

If we were to build some new futuristic city let's do it on the moon.

Failing that we could annex, overtake, or flat overrun one of the Alien cities/bases already there.   

Perhaps a possibility, they just found caverns on the moon with an abundance of water.

[Right_in_Virginia]

Oh HELL NO.
We can't afford his ridiculous dream.

Stop taking other peoples' money unnecessarily.
Stop growing this overweening federal government.

I was worried you wouldn't show up.  So, thanks.  With the clock ticking down, you just won a free dinner for me. 

Gotta go. 

[LMAO]

Oh HELL NO.
We can't afford his ridiculous dream.

Stop taking other peoples' money unnecessarily.
Stop growing this overweening federal government.

There you go talk'n that silly fiscal sanity talk

Don't you understand that that's what the Fed is for? They can print all the money we need

Dream Big!!!!!

This is just an updated version of the Model Cities program from the Johnson era. And the end result will be the same. This is doomed to fail before it even gets started

So at what point do we get to call him Lyndon Baines Trump?

[Free Vulcan]

All I'm saying is try not to allow disappoinment, cynicism and fear to consume you.  For once, try encouraging those willing to put fresh eyes on a solution ----- motivate them to venture outside the box you created in a desperate attempt to control a messy world.

Ridiculous. You're contradicting yourself. Shiny super megacities are not the solution to a messy world. They are practically anti- everything conservative.

[roamer_1]

There you go talk'n that silly fiscal sanity talk

Don't you understand that that's what the Fed is for? They can print all the money we need

Dream Big!!!!!

This is just an updated version of the Model Cities program from the Johnson era. And the end result will be the same. This is doomed to fail before it even gets started

So at what point do we get to call him Lyndon Baines Trump?

Them that don't know history are doomed to repeat it... h/t George Santayana

A concept any Conservative would understand intuitively.

But one Tumpy is obviously and entirely ignorant of.

[roamer_1]

Ridiculous. You're contradicting yourself. Shiny super megacities are not the solution to a messy world. They are practically anti- everything conservative.

Very much so...

[Lando Lincoln]

And don't forget Trump's insistance that we have flying cars.   I always wanted to be one of the Jetsons.  Heck I might get a dog named Astro too.   

Mrs. L has dibs on Rosie.