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Recently there has been a spate of videos and movies and columns detailing the radical past and associations of President Barack Hussein Obama. Long before many of these emerged, Stanley Kurtz’s book “Radical In Chief-Barack Obama and The Untold Story of American Socialism” meticulously detailed the trajectory that propelled a young and radical student to the White House to implement his goal of a socialist welfare state in America.
In his new book “Spreading the Wealth- How Obama is Robbing the Suburbs to Pay for the Cities” Kurtz cogently argues, again with meticulous research and detail, that “regionalism” a redistributive agenda which would meld suburbs including their schools, utilities and essential services and taxes into cities, is already in place ready for implementation in a second Obama administration.
This is not a new idea and has its roots in the community organizers who trained our President with the argument that rich and essentially white people fled to the suburbs leaving the inner cities to struggle with blight, crime ,poverty, homelessness and poor and failing schools.
To correct this, it was argued, required a major redistribution and “equalization’ of wealth.
The suburbs, leafy retreats from asphalt and congestion, have been depicted in movies and books as stultifying, middle class, prejudiced, boring and ” bourgeois.” For community organizers they represented what Kurtz calls “a defect in American structure.”
We are familiar with Bill Ayers, Reverend Jeremiah Wright, and Frank Marshall Davis, all of whom contributed to the President’s education and radicalization, but what is “Building One America?” Who is Myron Orfield? Who is Mike Kruglik?
They both come from the Gamaliel Foundation which Obama helped to found…..Kruglik as leader and Orfield as “strategic partner. ” The Gamaliel Foundation established in 1968 ostensibly as a fair housing group was, in fact, a radical group promoting the thesis that America is a racist society where ruling classes keep themselves in power by racism and greed and promotion of the suburban myth.
Myron Orfield, is described, by a like minded radical as “the most revolutionary politician in urban America”…..who..”split the suburbs” in the St. Paul-Minneapolis area to put regional tax base sharing in place.” To buttress his case he used spurious maps to prove ” financial disparities” between cities and suburbs, for which the only cure is tax base sharing by cities and suburbs.
Mike Kruglik was Obama’s boss during his community organizing time. He and Orfield head “Building One America” whose goal is to impede suburban survival and spread with regulations, taxes and fees…all cloaked as “environmental concerns “such as Obama’s Sustainable Communities Initiative.
In July of 2011, Kruglik and Orfield met with Obama at the White House, in a forum called “First Suburbs, Inclusion, Sustainability and Economic Growth followed by a private meeting in the Oval Office between Kruglik and the President. Obama’s friendships with radicals of his youth have clearly been “sustainable.”
Kurtz also discloses ominous efforts to “equalize’ education as part of the anti-suburbs initiative. Leftist Linda Darling Hammond, an Ayers acolyte and friend who proposed teaching “social justice ” was passed over as Secretary of Education, but she is a key player in the administration’s efforts to equalize school standards and tests between suburbs and cities by imposing a government standard on schools. Darling Hammond does not rest with attacking “sexuality, race, and gender privilege”….she also derides ‘white, middle class, suburban America.”
These are just a few of the people and programs that Stanley Kurtz writes about in this alarming, informing and essential book. More than any movie, column or documentary, Kurtz goes where no one else has gone in detailing the dangerous leftist agenda of a second term Obama presidency with programs and key players that are already in place. Read it.
Stanley Kurtz has graciously agreed to an interview.
