AP 'Scoop,' Naively Reported: WH to Form 'Rural Council' -- As If Help Is Needed
Statism never sleeps.
The Obama administration has apparently identified a significant constituency it hasn't been able to buy off, and is attempting to do something about it.
Of course, the ever-gullible Darlene Superville at the Associated Press is swallowing the White House line completely, as seen in these excerpted paragraphs:
Obama to create White House Rural Council
President Barack Obama plans to create a special advisory council to recommend ways to boost the economic outlook and quality of life for the estimated 60 million people who live in rural areas of the U.S., a White House official said.
Obama was expected to sign an executive order Thursday establishing the White House Rural Council and naming Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack, of Iowa, to be its chairman.
The official asked not to be identified in order to speak freely before a formal White House announcement about the council.
The panel will be responsible for providing recommendations to the president on investment in rural areas, as well as coordinating with a variety of rural interests, including agricultural groups, small businesses, and state, local and tribal governments.
... the panel's initial focus will be on job creation and economic development.
... The remaining subject areas will be: agriculture, access to credit, innovation, health care, education, Internet access, infrastructure, conservation and developing regional economies.
It never even occurs to Ms. Superville that rural areas might not be interested in more government "help" or "investment."
Yesterday, the government released GDP by state information for 2007-2010. As the following graphic shows, eight of the nine states with the fastest economic growth are predominantly rural:
What was that about economies needing a "boost"?
Of course I recognize that oil and other natural resource discoveries are helping many of these states. So? And don't forget that the Obama administration is feverishly resisting efforts to explore and develop domestic energy resources.
As to "job creation," here are the seasonally adjusted unemployment rates of the seven highlighted states as of April 2011, all of which were lower than that month's nationwide rate of 9.0%:
- North Dakota -- 3.3%
- Wyoming -- 6.0%
- South Dakota -- 4.9%
- Alaska -- 7.3%
- Nebraska -- 4.2%
- West Virginia -- 8.8%
- Utah -- 7.4%
What was that about "job creation"?
The real "problem" with the seven highlighted states is that the government hasn't figured out how to "cure" them of their inherent hostility towards initiatives designed to increase Washington's control over them. I will suggest that this is what the "Rural Council" is really about. As seen in the stats cited, it can't possibly really be about "job creation" and "economic development" -- Washington's targeted clients are doing fine on their own.
Poor Darlene Superville and the Associated Press just can't (or won't) see past the superficial.
Cross-posted at BizzyBlog.com.
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obamas' defeat will be sweet
Submitted by gAMEoVER on Wed, 06/08/2011 - 10:56pm.
DONE IN 1.
The Obama wouldn't have
Submitted by Dan The Man 2 on Wed, 06/08/2011 - 11:04pm.
The Obama wouldn't have nefarious plots in play, would he? All praise Allah Obama.
What the hell do these city
Submitted by killa37 on Wed, 06/08/2011 - 11:14pm.
What the hell do these city slickers/shysters/scammers/ con men know, or care to know, about 'rural America'..........which is also known as 'flyover country'??? The only thing that I can deduce from this proposal is some insidious play for more power, more control,and more forced influence over this 'unconquered territory'. Maybe Boy O'Barry has been reading up on the hammer and sickle brand of agriculteralism and industrialism of Soviet Russia...........or the 5-year plans of Mao.........or the way that the Nazis took over that segment of the German economy............
Any way you look at it, it's NOT an 'innocent' or 'up front' or 'transparent' program..................
By suburban he means...
Submitted by USMC8411 on Thu, 06/09/2011 - 12:13am.
white America, right? Isn't that the spin on the Ireland trip? Ireland's native son huh? Looks to me like that photo op O'Backfired on him, as the US was staring down natural disasters, he was pounding pints and prepping for a visit to Poland, where he would become obamski, Poland's long lost native son, partaking of the fine potato vodka. Reminiscing about how his father, grandfather, or step-father liberated Auschwitz in the great war. Thank allah the father dude spoke austrian fluently enough to understand the prisoners and the imprisoned. He alone, saved the camp. It was a courageous decision to do so... After thinking deeply on it for 3 days, he went in...
Without the blind support of the "suburbanites" this time, he will lose, and his internal polling may be showing that. Probably the reason for so much golfing over his favorite b-ball/hoops that he sported early on in the regime. Remember that? He was always on the court. He got bloodied on the court. His lip was a casualty of the game, requiring 12 sutures. Now he's always on the course. Mulligans, sand traps, and shanking to the LEFT... kinda like the direction A Weiner's ding a ling leans...
Come to think of it, he hasn't taken over a baseball game to throw out the first pitch since the first attempt fell, well, limp before the target. You fill in the weiner joke here...
Obamski
Submitted by Blonde on Thu, 06/09/2011 - 11:00am.
USMC, that post needed a beverage alert.
Sarcasm much?
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Why do we even have state governments any more?
Submitted by The Vet on Thu, 06/09/2011 - 12:43am.
Let's just let the Executive branch do it all.
Hell,
Submitted by killa37 on Thu, 06/09/2011 - 12:52am.
Hell, Vet...................the state governments, the Congress, and the Supreme Court are ALL bothersome to Boy O'Barry and his gang of dictators....................U NO DAT!!!!!
Ahh reach out and touch the food stamping country folk.
Submitted by upcountrywater on Thu, 06/09/2011 - 1:42am.
Must still be some National Treasure Dept, able to be given away. STILL Hope baby, crawling around checking the slouching couch for Change...
Spending someone else's money is a hard habit to break.
Same as it ever was....(popes open in a new window)
You Didn't Build That.
Well
Submitted by well99 on Thu, 06/09/2011 - 1:46am.
As someone who lives in a rural area I have a suggestion for the Rural Council.There is some goats that need stump breaking.When they finish with that they can get back to us.
Obvious vote-buying scheme.
Submitted by Phryj1 on Thu, 06/09/2011 - 4:05am.
Also, it gives the Obama administration a way to clamp down on oil, natural gas fracking, and other natural resource/fossil fuel production to protect the green agenda.
Helping rural areas that obviously don't need help? Since Obama and the Dems' idea of help ALWAYS involves making more people dependent on gov't entitlements and assistance, rural areas need their brand of help about as much as they'd need a kick in the head. Hopefully, rural communities will be saying 'no, thank you' to whatever assistance/vote-buying programs the Obama admin. cooks up.
Progressives seem to be completely averse to facts and logic. Apparently, reality has a conservative bias.
rural america
Submitted by kinijane on Thu, 06/09/2011 - 6:26am.
Sounds like a way for the Gov. to get their hands on the self sufficient and start adding regulations so that soon it will be illegal for you to grow your own garden, go hunting or even make your own soap, after all the small farmer isn't unionized.
High-Speed Rail to Paloookaville
Submitted by ChrisNH on Thu, 06/09/2011 - 6:29am.
Libs care only about urban areas. That's where their union-hack friends are; that's where the illegals they 'depend on' are. They care about things like 'Ed-you-cay-shun' only to the extent that it's URBAN schools--'publick skools'--they're talking about. And let's not forget the joys of 'mass transit' and 'high-speed rail,' which are Liberal wet dreams and focused only on their beloved 'urban areas.'
No, this 'play' for the heartland is nothing but a limp-wristed ploy by a bunch of limp-wristed Libs. Remember that so-called 'laser-like-focus' on 'jobs, jobs, jobs' from Obamo a year or so ago? Yes...limp-wristed like that.
peasants
Submitted by MidAmerica on Thu, 06/09/2011 - 7:05am.
Throughout history the rural peasants have always been a troublesome lot for whomever desired to dominate them. Stalin and Mao starved and imprisoned millions of them in a futile effort to make them compliant.
My rural friends and I have a
Submitted by HockeyKid on Thu, 06/09/2011 - 7:21am.
My rural friends and I have a proposal for the Rural Council, but I sincerely doubt Obysmal would implement it, since it has to do with his permanent residence in points south of Antarctica. I guarantee it would improve the outlook of rural America, though.
"Beauty is only skin deep, but liberal's to the bone." - me
It's Called Honor
Submitted by Specialty Machining on Thu, 06/09/2011 - 8:57am.
Most of us country folk find it shameful, to not support ourselves & help others. Government attempts to destroy the honor of self reliance & charity, & to do it with money coerced from others,
North Dakota GDP +24%???
Submitted by SickofLibs on Thu, 06/09/2011 - 11:52am.
I'd secede. Or at least lock down the state and kick all the feds out immediately.
moving inland
Submitted by mom_rox on Thu, 06/09/2011 - 12:19pm.
I guess he wasn't getting enough support (aka campaign $$) from The White House Initiative on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders, which President Obama established by Executive Order in 2009.
That's it, waste more money
Submitted by jessieH on Thu, 06/09/2011 - 12:28pm.
That's it, waste more money on nothing. The White House is either brain dead or there are more traitors in there than we thought.
Another executive order;
Submitted by pylgrym on Thu, 06/09/2011 - 12:31pm.
Another executive order; another bureaucracy, another czar. It's impossible to believe he really thinks we bitter clingers to our God and our guns will surrender both along with our pride, our self-suffiency, and our votes for government "assistance".
Maybe he's going for a full Stalin
Submitted by lgeubank on Thu, 06/09/2011 - 1:11pm.
Maybe Obama is plotting to collectivize agriculture, just as Stalin did in the U.S.S.R.
Obama followed Stalin's pattern perfectly in collectivizing medical care, so maybe he's going to go 100% literal and collectivize the production of food.
Only problem: Obama doesn't have "kulaks" to demonize, as Stalin did (and as Obama had doctors and insurance companies to demonize). So he'll have to find another cosmic rustic villain to justify his complete takeover of agriculture.
I live in "Rural
Submitted by UpNorth on Thu, 06/09/2011 - 4:49pm.
America". Stay away, stay far away, Obie. We don't want you, or need you and your czar, or your council. My quality of life is just fine, and if your past performance is any indicator(and it is), we sure as hell don't need you doing anything more to our economy.
Pathway for pork?
Submitted by nkviking75 on Thu, 06/09/2011 - 5:09pm.
Perhaps this is cover for Obama to funnel pork into Iowa, not only for his benefit, but also for Christie Vilsack. If that last name is familiar, it's because she's married to USDA Sec. and former Iowa Gov. Tom Vilsack. Sec. 3 of the Executive Order creating the council names the USDA Secretary as chairman. And that's convenient for Christie because she's just moved into the territory that will become Steve King's district in the next election in order to run against him.
“Always love your country — but never trust your government!" -- Bob Novak (1931-2009)
When you put the clowns in charge, don't be surprised when a circus breaks out.
If she's claiming to have moved
Submitted by UpNorth on Fri, 06/10/2011 - 1:40am.
there, and hubby is still living in D.C., isn't she committing fraud? Or have they separated? I know, stupid questions..
I would assume that Rep. King's people would be smart enough to challenge her residency? After all, they ARE living in D.C.
And how did that argument work out for ...
Submitted by NL207 on Fri, 06/10/2011 - 1:42am.
folks opposed to Rahm 'dead fish' Emmanuel in Chicago?