CITIZEN MOTIVATION

We get the government we deserve.  A display of “Western Values” is showcased in America.

Biden-Harris Administration Announces History-Making $3.3 Billion for Locally-Led Projects That Reconnect Communities as Part of President Biden’s Investing in America Agenda—–“While the purpose of transportation is to connect, in too many communities past infrastructure decisions have served instead to divide. Now the Biden-Harris administration is acting to fix that,” said U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg. “Today we are proud to announce an unprecedented $3.3 billion to help 132 communities deliver better infrastructure that reconnects residents to jobs, health care, and other essentials.”

–end of reconnect info–

Fifty years overdue but better late than never.

Interstate highways were built throughout the Southern Tier in the rabid industrial period that also included demolition of local low-income housing; but also devastation to lovely neighborhoods.  The result is further pollution of chemical valley with the assistance of local bureaucrats and politicians.  This has indeed brought economic development, along with the capitalistic system of highs and lows, in which the quasi-criminally bent skimmed off the wealth of the region and also facilitated ease of criminal elements to infiltrate the region.  Often this included Pyramid Scheme aficionados.  

Along with this system, hierarchical Establishment has indoctrinated locals into submission.  Another trick of the capitalistic trade has been simply to override and ignore the wishes of We The People in a way known as authoritarian overreach.

The system of “running government like a business” has attracted such characters along with and Donald J. Trump who seems to act in a totally self-interested way while deluding so many of his MAGA followers who he has acknowledged possesses a level of ignorance that suits his ego.

Trump promised to scrap climate laws if US oil bosses donated $1bn – report—

Donald Trump dangled a brazen “deal” in front of some of the top US oil bosses last month, proposing that they give him $1bn for his White House re-election campaign and vowing that once back in office he would instantly tear up Joe Biden’s environmental regulations and prevent any new ones, according to a bombshell new report.

According to the Washington Post, the former US president made his jaw-dropping pitch, which the paper described as “remarkably blunt and transactional”, at a dinner at his Mar-a-Lago home and club.  –end of oil exec info–

One wonders at the lower-thinking MAGA supporters who will lose so much if the Establishment transactional turpitude on blatant display by candidate Trump is permitted to issue orders of law that further promotes interests of the rich and famous.  Typical of the type, these deluded simpletons believe their personal circumstances will soar under the dictatorship of a Trump Administration.  In one person’s view, those who will profit will be the rich and famous rather than the lower-class slow thinkers.  This is due to the corruption of Citizens United in which big-money interests buy votes, as urged by Donald J. Trump that he has expressly called.  He surely puts into criminal phrases, that which other politicians put lipstick upon.

The many admirable qualities of the MAGA type are herded into indoctrination characteristic of the sports-team-supporting Pep Rally types who enjoy the camaraderie of acceptance, regardless of consequence.  Perhaps it harkens back “to the day” of glory.

But the stakes are too high, boys and girls; and this applies, as they say, to “both sides of the aisle”.

Look before you leap.–Schumer urges FTC to hit the brakes on $53 billion Chevron-Hess merger——

May 12 (Reuters) – U.S> Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer on Sunday urged the Federal Trade Commission to “pump the breaks” on Chevron Corp’s (CVX.N), opens new tab proposed $53 billion acquisition of Hess Corp (HES.N), opens new tab.

“The FTC should side with consumers and pump the breaks on this deal,” Schumer said in a post, opens new tab on social media platform X, adding that the deal would give oil majors more leverage to raise gas prices.

In October last year, Chevron agreed to buy Hess for $53 billion in stock to gain a bigger U.S. oil footprint and a stake in rival Exxon Mobil’s (XOM.N), opens new tab massive Guyana discoveries.—end of merger info—–

And in the Southern Tier, imposition of exploitation against local communities continue.

Appeals court tosses Bunn Hill lawsuit  –

VESTAL, N.Y. (WIVT/WBGH) – A lawsuit intended to stop a controversial housing development in Vestal has been rejected, possibly paving the way for construction to begin.

The New York State Supreme Court Third Judicial Department Appellate Division ruled 5 to 0 to affirm a lower court ruling against Friends for Responsible Vestal Zoning.

The group of residents had sued in an effort to stop The Retreat at Bunn Hill, which would consist of 161 detached homes across 43 acres along Bunn Hill Road.

Some neighbors have been vocal opponents of the plan, arguing that it would create a traffic problem, increase water runoff along their properties and ruin the idyllic rural setting of the area.

Supporters of the project say it will bring much-needed tax revenue to the town and that developers will pay to extend water and sewer infrastructure to neighboring properties.

-end of Vestal info–

And again—-Town of Maine public hearing has full house against potential corporate park—

A strong showing of residents stopped by and all addressed their concerns moving ahead.

“They haven’t performed any site plans, there’s no paperwork,” said Resident Bob Utter who has been closely following the project. “The Town of Maine has not received any paperwork from the IDA in the last year and a half and they’ve asked at numerous public meetings for the information.”

—end of Town of Union/Maine info–

Perhaps the MAGA draw is the result of wishes to be on the winning side that may rise over local-community dignity and autonomy that has been stymied by authoritarian dictatorship.

And by the way, in free elections one needn’t “hold one’s nose and vote” for the lesser evil.  Try voting your conscience and dare one say one’s intellect?  Though the R&D duopoly have marked their territories, a citizen needn’t reject human and environmental rights to succumb to propaganda.  

As some people have said, capitalism and communism are opposite sides of the same coin.  Red and Blue…..Tomato and Tomoto….

Perception of diversity of policy and thought is sweet in the R&D duopoly where MAGA Prep-Rally mentality is mirrored by the Democratic Base in a Prep-Rally mentality assumed of misogyny in which the woes of the world are attributed to women……especially white women.

C-Span hosts this morning on the topic of whether one has participated in a protest.  That is the privilege within democracy along with the responsibility of human rights.

“Running government like a business”, supported and legalized by Citizens United, changing democracy into capitalism, has attracted Pyramid Scheme experts into our government, legalizing organized crime.

Mention this phenomenon to your “Representatives”.—House Speaker Mike Johnson to travel to Binghamton for event with Rep. Molinaro—-

House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., will travel to Binghamton Thursday for an event with Republican U.S. Rep. Marc Molinaro focused on law enforcement funding and public safety. 

The Thursday meeting will be at the Broome County Sheriff’s Office and is said to feature sheriff’s deputies, neighboring law enforcement, other first responders and families. 

Johnson’s trip comes as Molinaro seeks reelection in the 19th Congressional District. Broome County is the most-populous county there and could play a large role in in the upcoming election. Molinaro is being challenged by Democrat Josh Riley, who is from Endicott, a village just outside Binghamton. Molinaro flipped the seat in 2022, defeating Riley by about 4,500 votes. 

  –end of SouthernTier info–