City Politics, Education Morass

Schools fail at teaching academics yet want to teach entrepreneurship!

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September 9, 2011
Chancellor Paul Beran and another expensive bureaucratic ABSURDITY, i.e. “The Business Incubator”.

It is indeed curious who dreams up these absurdities and what is Beran’s authority to create more programs and lay more tax burdens on our unsuspecting community?

Apparently this proposed heist has been in the works for a number of years, actually since 2007.  Beran stated that his Innovation & Entrepreneurship Center has an account balance of $187,000 in public money and this money could be used to start a “new incubator”.  Always remember that politicians’ & bureaucratic “visions” are dangerous and are always in the fore. Spending someone else’s money is the easiest job in the world.

The irony of this scheme is the ABSURDITY…all involved are bureaucrats & politicians who have banded together to create the I.E.C.

Paul Beran, Ivy Owen, and Phillip Merry appear to be the functionaries.

The proposed purpose of the scheme is ultimately to create more government fascism or commonly known as a Public/ Private Partnership where the government is always the CEO. 

Governments are in no way responsible for the business successes our Republic has enjoyed over past years; to the contrary government is totally responsible for our massive debt, uncertainty of the future, enormous unemployment, and a growing dependency on our corrupt government terminating in a loss of confidence & initiative by our citizens.

As stated in another piece, entrepreneurs are born with a genetic creative quality that demands independence,  coupled with the ability and determination to succeed.   Entrepreneurship is not taught and what Beran and his cronies are trying to create guarantees the death of real entrepreneurship.   What they are purposing is another government watchdog.

If our republic is to survive, politicians & bureaucrats must be kept under a microscope and their every move tracked.  Their only interest is maintaining their position, whether elected or appointed, with the ultimate single goal of government expansion.

Chancellor Beran, do our citizens a favor and turn your attentions to badly needed improvement in academia and quit dreaming up new ways to steal our money while broadening your power base. 

Entrepreneurs will do quite well if government stays out of their psyche, their pocket books, and removes all the evil regulations that hamstring businesses large and small.

Joe McCutchen
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City Politics, Education Morass

Educators’ visions=taxpayer burdens

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August 25, 2011    The silence is deafening…and that is not a good thing re: Chancellor Beran’s alleged “vision” for the development of a Mallalieu Center for Academic Excellence apparently aimed at north-side kids.

The secrecy surrounding his proposed endeavor is indeed extremely troubling.

Educators for decades have created and sustained quasi academic programs without any discussions with the paying citizenry.  Back in the day when education was real and needs were to be met there were few questions asked about school financing because positive results usually followed.  Today the education cabals have multiplied exponentially and the results top down are dismal. On the world stage American universities rank 19th.  The personal conduct of many teachers are equally dismal, e.g. today’s Dem-Gaz announced via an FOIA that in Arkansas over 4,000 government school teachers are double dipping.  This is only in teaching, not the rest of state government employees and no telling how many that entails.

Citizens, we can no longer allow the Beran’s of this country to secretly meet, hatch up million dollar schemes and without due process dump them on unsuspecting citizens to bear their economic burdens.

The audacity of Chancellor Beran coming forth and announcing after 2 years of clandestine involvements the plans to create another mega-dollar government expansion—all in the name of education “for the children”. 

This is not the 1950’s. Education has become a self-serving, thieving dynasty. Two more examples, Arkansas school teachers & ancillary help were awarded a $90 million gift  and in the case of Fort Smith was divvied up on the last day of school with teachers receiving $700 each…all this vote buying came under the masquerade of the federal “stimulus”.  State schools are spending$10,000 + per year per student and what are we getting?  Failure, cooking the books, 50% remediation rates, cheating on test scores, lowering standards & dumbed-down indoctrinating curricula…so does another blank check to Beran make any sense?

Beran, along with some of his co-conspirators, are in all likelihood in their bunker at UAFS waiting for the time to spring the “vision” of his Academic Excellence indoctrination center.  
The real question here is simply what is going on behind the curtain regarding Beran’s comedic farce.
If Beran’s enabled theatrics were legitimate it still would not be proper to implement without taxpaying citizens’ full knowledge and approval. 

Beran has not been forthcoming regarding who his associates are in his proposed “vision”.   Beran is much too smart and a seasoned politician/fundraiser not to cover all bases. So who are the enablers who are engineering in the “end around”?

Only an educated guess can be made concerning the undisclosed participants.  Who benefits financially, politically or otherwise?  The nominees are:  Richard Griffin, Ken Pyle, Senator Jake Files, Administrator Ray Gosack, Phil White, Rep. Denny Altes, Mayor Sandy Sanders, Kevin Settle, Pam Weber, 1st National Bank, Bennie Westphal???  A number of others are possible nominees.  
Is there an involvement with New Market Tax Credits and/or Agenda 21?

The tax & spend antics of government employees can no longer be tolerated, especially in this time of economic depression.  Preserving every possible historical site is not the taxpayers’ obligation.  Mallalieu is the responsibility of those interested to donate.

Joe McCutchen

city government offenses, City Politics, FOI request and response Chancellor Beran travels

More on the Mallalieu Grasshopper

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It’s a time for genuine thought.                        August 23, 2011

Directors re: the Mallalieu church and the Center for Excellence…can we take a deep breath and have a sensible, logical discussion?  This church involvement has been going on for a decade plus…what is your hurry now?

Questions:
1.    How did the city obtain the Mallalieu church?
2.    Was money exchanged?
3.    If so, how much and where did it go?
4.    Was there a CDBG grant?  If so, how much?
5.    Were there other parcels of land bought and/or sold adjacent to the church?
6.    From fragmented information it appears the city, that’s us, will spend over ½ million to deconstruct the church, accompanied by clean-up efforts…is this correct?
7.    Does the city leadership plan to give the Mallalieu real estate to Chancellor Beran & UAFS?
8.    If so, what is the legal precedent that enables the city to give away taxpayer land to another government entity?
9.    You’ve said that Chancellor Beran and his enablers are planning to build a school complex on the Mallalieu real estate.  By what authority?

Schools, regardless of their intentions, must be approved, in this case, by the Arkansas legislature and the State Board of Education.  What is their position regarding this proposed school?

Are the public school teachers offended by Beran’s arrogance and secret involvements regarding his vision of Academic Excellence?  Who are Beran’s enablers and what is the real reason for this proposed endeavor?

Nowhere are there finite details as to where specifically the funding will come from to create this project and certainly no specifics regarding the cost to develop and to maintain.  Ultimately we citizens will be the end source of funding if we allow Beran’s self-serving motives to reach fruition.  Make no mistake, this proposed project is huge and very costly.

Speaking of funding, note in todays Times Record, that the budget for the coming year for the operation of the Fort Smith school system is $165.66 million.  Do you not think this is more than enough to levy taxpayers for education in Fort Smith, even though in some quarters it could be described as a failed process?

As was explained in an earlier piece, entrepreneurship is an inherited pre-disposition; likewise mental acuity.   An individual who is lucky enough to have been born with a keen mind will in most cases rise from the ashes of childhood—be it poverty, broken homes, etc.  In most circumstances, you cannot hide the light of intelligence.

Beran is a fundraiser/politician, nothing more, nothing less.  Certainly not an academic.  There appears to be no regard for our present failing economic circumstances.

Again, Directors, it would be in everyone’s best interest if a civil discourse was initiated regarding the proposed Mallalieu endeavor, not only for yourselves but your constituents.

Joe McCutchen

City Politics, Political Correctness - The Destroyer

Politically Correct Collectivism on local level

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Chancellor Beran and the Big Grasshopper:               August 22, 2011

The grasshopper is on the hook and it was cast out into the blue pond and any number of suckers, that’s citizens, are hittin’ the bait. 

 Most of the suckers striking the bait no doubt are not in the 49% of Americans who pay federal income tax, i.e.  all the self-serving detritus (government programs) that elitist welfare recipients such as Beran are eternally generating.  It must be a “Vision” and of course, “for the children” and additionally the creation of a Mallalieu Center of Excellence will look good on Beran’s resume’ when he opts to move on.

Citizens, you do understand that we have a government school system, formerly known as the public school system that addresses every whim of a child’s upbringing.  Beran’s inside trading in the backroom for 2 years poses the question, other than the “vision” what’s he really up to?  Is Beran really saying that his student teachers are better than the public school teachers?

Government schools of all dimensions are terribly overfunded and this certainly includes UAFS.  Now the inside elitist “welfare” recipients, i.e. most of the city government leadership, along with Beran and his type, are in the process of trying to build an 8,000 sq. ft. building on the come, stating it’s for “at-risk” kids.  Remember the city schools have and utilize all the resources that Beran is stating his new school will implement.  Again, what is he really up to?   He claims he has raised a million in secrecy.  Why in secrecy?  Again, what’s he really up to? 

No mention as to where the ongoing maintenance money of this duplicitous scheme will come from.  Certainly not private endowments.

The City Board & Beran, exactly like Obama’s Stimulus Plan, LET’S HURRY & GET THIS DEED DONE before taxpayers wake up to another tax scam.  After all, “It’s for the Children”.

More social indoctrination by Beran and his minions. 

When on earth will taxpaying citizens wake up to Politically Correct propaganda? Emotions don’t pay the bills!

Here again the City Board , along with Chancellor Beran, are engaging themselves in a huge involvement without citizen’s detailed knowledge, discussion, and understanding. This is precisely what got us into the economic crisis we are experiencing and will help shove us further into the quagmire.

The aforementioned want to ram this down the citizen’s throat while the iron is hot, absent logical civil discourse.

Is the majority of the fish in the pond hittin’ on the Grasshopper?

Joe McCutchen
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City Politics

More “visions” requiring funding

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The Fort Smith Board of Directors, UAFS Chancellor Paul Beran, The Mallalieu Church—what’s up?
August 18, 2011

Another mushy, insignificant editorial in today’s T. R.  “City Leaders Agree to Move Plan Forward”.

The Plan later.  Some of the editor’s comments: “It was a moment of healing between the often divergent interests—or the perceived divergent interests”.  What is that statement supposed to mean?  The editorial rambles on: “when directors voted to preserve something of importance to all of us”.  How so?  What historical significance does the Mallalieu church hold except to its parishioners?  Our area abounds with 90+ year old churches.
The editor continues: “of importance to all of us in the service of increasing opportunities for young people on the north side of town”.   What opportunities could be afforded the north side kids that they do not presently have or can obtain at their beck and call?  Be specific editor, not bloviating touchy-feeling hyperbole.  
To begin with, why does the city of Fort Smith own this old church building and what has ownership cost the taxpayers?

Now enter Chancellor Beran with another “pie in the sky vision”—The Plan.  That would be the “Mallalieu Center for Academic Excellence”.  The project has Agenda 21 written all over it.  That is, to be a public-private partnership, commonly known as P3’s which is the vehicle that Agenda 21 uses to abolish private property and restrict mobility. Also are New Market Tax Credits in the embryonic plan?

Beran claims he can raise private funding and grants to build whatever he has in mind, shades of the Marshall’s Museum.   More government and more control. Beran apparently has no comprehension that our former preeminent republic is bankrupt.  The Takers (that’s politicians & bureaucrats) can only be described as the enemies of the middleclass.  Beran never alluded to what this frivolity will ultimately cost and more importantly what the cost to maintain and where the teaching staff would come from.  Oh yes, UAFS will provide and as Beran said the Mallalieu Center of Academic Excellence will serve as a laboratory.  A suggestion for Beran, every government school in the city is a pre-existing “laboratory”.  Beran is a hugeTaker from the Makers.  Observe his record.

It is hoped that the city directors would remove themselves forthwith from very expensive, nebulous, non-governmental affairs and attend to resurrecting our moribund city by using the proper functions of government.

Joe McCutchen

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More Takers taking from the Makers

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To the Fort Smith City Mayor & the City Directors:                August 14, 2011

The city of Fort Smith, Arkansas—a puny 10 yr. 6% growth rate, a C-/D+ on its Economic Report Card, involved in any number of non-governmental pursuits stifling the taxpayers and the city itself, e.g. Food Tax issue, the Marshall’s Museum, West End, Ben Geren Park additions, Convention Center, and in all likelihood any number of downtown involvements.  All of this coupled to the incremental shuttering of what was once the shining flagship of Fort Smith—Whirlpool, Inc.

Enter the pseudo academic expansionist Chancellor Paul Beran of the Univ. of Ark. Fort Smith with another very expensive cockeyed “vision”.  Reference the “Mallalieu Center for Academic Excellence” described as a “Church of Reason serving the intellectual leaders of the next generation”, so says Beran.  Could Chancellor Beran define for us…what is a church of reason & who are the intellectual leaders of the next generation?  Are we to believe that will be the case when his project’s partakers are the “at risk” dropouts, illegals, ne’er do wells, incorrigibles? Beran’s initial “vision” inculcates a plaza and a library to begin with.  Initially the city, that’s us, will spend $300,000 for the church demolition which will result in the creation of a ninth street façade.  Ultimately “The vision” if allowed to come to fruition, would create another notorious private/public partnership—which is more government expansion with the government as the CEO.

The question now, in view of the city’s miserable Economic Report Card, puny growth rate, the tepid state of the economy, why in heaven’s name would the mayor and Directors even consider such an outlandish scheme?

It is not in the purview of city government to restore decaying churches, that is for the church’s congregation and/or whoever has an interest in said structure.  This again is another example of a bureaucrat, in this case Chancellor Paul Beran, to run economically roughshod over taxpaying citizens.  The UAFS is overfunded and Beran has plenty of work to do to create UAFS as a Center of Academic Excellence.  Regarding his numerous state, national & global travelling, it would be appropriate for him to land and closely examine the spending habits of UAFS, e.g. small example, advertising UAFS on electronic billboards within the city & primetime spots on television.

Another case of the Takers planning to take more from the Makers.
                                    August 15, 2011
Denouement:  
The Fort Smith city government can beneficently be described as incompetent and inept. Today’s Times Record reports that Marshal’s Museum Director Jim Dunn is back at the trough for another 100K.   For What?   Another “pie in the sky vision” the museum was billed as a PRIVATE undertaking.  At this point it appears the only cash for this project has come from the taxpayers.  Recall that in early 2010 Richard Griffin, Ken Pyle, Jim Dunn & other mischief makers went to Miami to sack up something called “New Market Tax Credits”…a taxpayer subsidized government program being roundly abused. Is this what Griffin is using to subsidize his new Garrison Ave. liquor store?

What was Dunn’s reason for accompanying Griffin to Miami?  Who paid for his trip? 

The F.S. city government has no business plan and these two items listed in this piece make the leaders of this city sound as if they auditioned for Circus, Circus.

What in the world is going on inside the city government?  Please, get back to the proper role of government and get these Takers off our backs.

Joe McCutchen
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Arkansas Six, Benefits for illegal aliens, Congresscritters, Federal Government

Townhall Dog & Pony Show

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Congressman Womack comes to town…indirectly from “The Front Lines”.  A Townhall meeting at the Fort Smith public library 8/9/11.
                    August 10, 2011

A front page story in the Times Record “Womack Hits Entitlements” reveals nothing that anyone on the streets already knew, i.e. Medicare, Medicaid, & Social Security consume 2/3rds of annual spending by the federal government.

He further indicated that discretionary spending would not balance the budget.  
There were no indications that questions were asked by the Times Record of Cong. Womack.  Fort Smith deserves more.   Is it not the job of a newspaper to ask questions and pursue the truth?

Conspicuously absent from Womack’s stage appearance were:

1.     What is his plan for solving the debt crisis, i.e. is he actively going to engage? 

2.    No mention of the runaway illegal invasion of America by Mexicans and OTM’s & the inordinate amount of taxpayer dollars they consume in welfare. The illegals receive all kinds of largesse, no questions. Ask the Congressman how many thousand illegal Mexican women & OTM’s have dumped their anchor babies on Arkansas soil to be taken care of until age 21, compliments of former Gov. Huckabee.

3.    No mention & certainly no discussion regarding America’s military global excursions (military presence in 130 countries). All recent U.S. military encounters have resulted in invading sovereign nations who have done nothing to us nor posed a threat, e.g. Obama’s attack on Libya.  If there were a budget, what percent converted to dollars does he think is dedicated to the military/industrial complex?

4.    He did say he supports “free trade”…there is nothing “free” about GATT, NAFTA, and the rest of huckster programs. If I see Cong. Womack one day in the future I will be pleased to define real Free Trade.

5.    No mention of dissolving such unconstitutional & duplicitous government behemoths as the Dept. of Education, Energy, HUD, EPA, ad infinitum.

6.     No explanation as to why he voted for the extension of the liberty stealing Patriot Acts—Amendments 1,2,4 & 10.
Congressman Womack, why do politicians lump Social Security, Medicare with Medicaid? The first two are paid for in most cases with taxpayer’s blood & sweat and the last is totally Forced Redistribution? That is called Marxist/Communism. How much does Medicaid consume?

Republicans had a golden opportunity to vote in “Cut, Cap, & Balance” even though it would have been voted down by the Senate & vetoed by the President, would have sent a resounding message to U.S. citizens and the rest of the world, that this country is dedicated to reducing the size of the federal government, while putting the ball squarely in Obama’s court. Another failure precipitated by political cronyism, accompanied by bi-partisan compromise, which guarantees defeat.

Nothing accomplished by Cong. Womack’s appearance, just typical back slapping.

It must be said here that I long gave up attending political meetings, nothing substantive is allowed to occur and real questions activate hostility, e.g. the recent F. S. Board of Directors meeting.

Don’t lose sight of the fact that Cong. Womack is a Big Government man—a former Mayor of Rogers, National Guard, & now Congressman.  He is firmly ensconced in the political trough.

Joe McCutchen

Arkansas Six, U.S. Government offenses

Congressman’s Front Line compromise!

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Arkansas Congressman Steve Womack’s newsletter (“From the Front”) regarding his vote on raising the debt ceiling and the balanced budget amendment.                     August 6, 2011

 Before addressing the central theme of the Congressman’s newsletter, observations can be made regarding the sophomoric title of the newsletter “From the Front”
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Congressman Womack, you and the entire Arkansas delegation were nowhere near the “Front”, the six of you were no shows.  Only the Tea Party elected carried the flag of freedom.  Your action and the rest of the delegation’s vote to raise the debt ceiling by $2.4 Trillion to be dispensed to and by President Barack Obama was and is a traitorous act which was designed to destroy the remnants of America.   The debt ceiling is now in excess of $17 Trillion resulting in a reduction in our credit rating, and a 1,000 pt. drop in the stock market, all done by you who voted for it. These are precisely what your leaders said the vote would prevent. 

You showed you have no political courage and just another big government RINO.  You have been in the taxpayer trough for how many years now, congressman?  That would be the Mayor of Rogers, Ark. with all the open-border, cheap labor advocates, the National Guard, and now the U.S. Congress.   Tell us Congressman, what philosophically do you stand for?

You will never make amends for your traitorous vote to raise the debt ceiling.  You claim “it gets better than dollar for dollar cuts, and no tax increases”.   Both unadulterated lies.  There were no cuts, it was a reduction in the rate of spending and tax increases are on the immediate horizon.

You go on to say “I congratulate Speaker Boehner and his leadership team in his negotiating prowess in insisting on cuts—only solutions”.   Another lie, there were no cuts.  In actuality our former preeminent republic probably will not and cannot recover from Obama’s frontal assault to dismantle our nation.  And you, Congressman Womack among other self-serving politicians gave him the tool, which would be the $2.4 Trillion to finish the job. 

You claim that our nation has been at or above 8% unemployment.  The fact is that it is above 17%.  Your sacred cows, and other elected’s are Entitlements…the reason for your cowardly vote, i.e. you did not have the guts to discuss cutting Entitlements, you did not have the guts to speak of our open borders with 25-35 illegal Mexican’s & OTM’s stealing American jobs & sopping up billions in welfare largesse, and the Trillions in terroristic wars around the globe orchestrated by the U.S. government.  Note the last terroristic act by the U.S. gov’t was done unilaterally by Obama on Libya and he stated this was a “humanitarian effort” and would “last days not weeks”.  How many months now Congressman?  And on this subject you crowed about your vote to continue the heinous, unconstitutional Patriot Acts which negate the 1st, 4th & 10th Amendments.  Your profile in political courage is dismal.

Cong. Womack, you speak of “putting America Back to Work”.   The only thing our present government creates is debt, economic burdens, and unrest…government does NOT create jobs.  So tell us Cong. Womack what is your experience on creating and sustaining private sector jobs? 

Finally, you speak of bipartisan effort and compromise (one & the same) as if they were the Holy Grail.   When you compromise your principles you have capitulated to the enemy.  On the Front Line you either win or you lose.

Joe McCutchen
Fort Smith, Arkansas

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city government offenses, State government offenses

Forced Fluoridation

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Delta Dental—the Arkansas Dental Association (ADA)—Arkansas Medicaid—and follow the money.
 August 3, 2011

The Arkansas legislator/legislators that introduced and passed Act 197 which requires selective cities in the state to fluoridate their water exceeded their authority and violated the Constitution and their Oaths of Office, along with explaining why they felt fluoride was needed in drinking water and in this case Lake Fort Smith which now is undoubtedly the finest drinking water in the state, this is subject to change if fluoride is dumped into the lake.   The legislator or legislators had no regard for the citizens by the fact they are forced to self-medicate by drinking water that contains by-products from industrial waste.

  The arrogance of the Arkansas state legislature which takes away individual responsibility to determine what medication citizens take.  This is a micro-Obamacare.

Who or what ordered them to make such a law and what did the legislator/legislators get in return for their corrupt actions?  Let them come forward and defend themselves.

Let’s examine some motives that Delta Dental & the ADA have for pushing such a heinous bill.  Delta Dental is a dental insurance company whose involvement is to allegedly fund start up procedures to fluoridate city waters. The question here becomes somewhat murky. Do they have contracts with the Arkansas Department of Human Services that pay Medicaid claims and/or do they insure productive citizens?  It becomes patently obvious that by mass fluoridation reducing the number of dental caries in their clients increases their bottom line substantially.  The ADA is being overrun by welfare recipients (Arkids 1 & 2, Medicaid, & WIC recipients) who reduce the dentist’s bottom line.
Fluoridation of water is nothing more than an economic maneuver to produce more revenue for Delta Dental and dentists in Arkansas with taxpayers ultimately having to pay for the monthly salting of our waters with toxic fluoride, accompanied by increases in water bills and no regard for the vast majority of citizens who have indicated they do not want to be self-medicated by force. It is called freedom of choice.

No regard given to the long-term health issues and citizen concerns by forced ingestion of the poison sodium fluoride, i.e. bone structure, thyroid and brain considerations, to name a few.

Who is the legislator/legislators who unleashed the vile Act 197 and are the Board of Directors blithely going to continue to pursue the unconstitutional and immoral tragedy?  Don’t these power brokers even care about their own and their family’s health?

Joe McCutchen
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city government offenses, City Politics, Globalization

Globalism on the local level=big bucks for some

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Please read & think—your individual freedoms & property rights are at stake                July 24, 2011

Government—government—and more government, all made possible by practitioners of opportunism. Why isn’t private enterprise flourishing as opposed to the metastasizing government at all levels which creates nothing but debt and destruction? Look no further than Fort Smith.

New Market Tax Credits—the rich take from the poor.

Is there a relationship between the United Nations’ Agenda 21/Sustainable Development and its bevy of bastard babies and their relationships to Sebastian County and the Fort Smith city government and their relationship to private developers and their relationship with the New Market Tax Credits?
The U.N. Agenda 21 has given rise to Sustainable Development, Smart Growth, Quality of Place, MPO (Metropolitan Planning Organization), ICLEI, Metro 1313, Providence Communities, New Market Tax Credits, New Urbanism, and the list goes on & on. MPO’s are federally established.  Fort Smith is already a participant in any number (?) of the bastard babies.  What citizen rights have been usurped?

U.N. Agenda 21 is generally known in counties across America as Sustainable Development. Sustainable policies are now pursued in every county in the United States.  U.N.  Agenda 21 is the globalist program designed to achieve the step-by-step abolition of private property, to educate for a global citizenship, and to control human actions in toto—transportation, diet, concentrated living quarters (stack & pack ‘em), walking trails, containment of worksites, i.e. the whole of our lives. Included in U.N. Agenda 21 is a written objective to reduce population by 85%–sobering! The question remains, what method or methods will be used to remove populations if Americans continue to slumber? 

Again, every county in America has adopted its own Sustainability programs…citizens, are you aware of this?   How many of these programs have Sebastian County and the city of Fort Smith implemented? What is the price for membership, and why have elected & appointed officials not made the citizens aware, e.g. Judge David Hudson, the Justices of Peace, local legislators, Fort Smith City Manager Ray Gosack & the City Board?  What freedoms have we citizens lost by their participation?  Do the aforementioned know the goals of Agenda 21 in its traitorous endeavors?  If so, they are complicit. If not, they are incompetent.

In addition to the MPO’s its companions are non-elected Councils of Government (COG’s).  Research has shown that MPO’s and COG’s are Soviet-style organizations.  These organizations hold ultimate power and are not elected. Notice the vast number of unelected commissions, task forces, study groups, etc. which as previously noted, are nothing more than self-serving power cabals with no oversight, accompanied by their lobbying efforts.  The Advertising & Promotion Commission is an excellent example.
U.N. Agenda 21 is fully embedded in American government, business, and educational systems, e.g. F.S. public schools & Univ. of Ark. @ Ft. Smith are graphic examples.

Sustainability is defined as the three E’s: Equity—establish a Collectivist society that reduces everyone to a common denominator (Obama and the Democrats); Economics—the international redistribution of America’s wealth (Obama & the Democrats) and converting the free enterprise system to what government calls Public-Private Partnerships (better described as economic Fascism, or Corporatism & government is always the CEO):  Environment—nature comes before man. 

We have seen the first two E’s manifest themselves in America, and the third E is now taking place, orchestrated by the Bureau of Land Management, Forest Rangers, etc.  Example, the San Juan and other mountain ranges surrounding Cortez, CO. have been taken over by the federal government. (Look no further than the Ouachita’s in Arkansas)  Many roads in & out of these mountain ranges have been locked and gated.  It is estimated that 50% of America’s land mass, plus buffer zones will be off-limits to ordinary people and will prevent extraction of resources.

The battlefield for Sustainable Development has become local, implemented by City Directors, County Boards, Water Boards, Fire Boards, School Boards, etc. Note again, that most are non-elected boards and the bastard babies of U.N. Agenda 21 are implemented by proliferating unelected boards which serve as the pilots for America’s destruction.

One of the largest of the bastard babies is an outfit called ICLEI (International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives). Many writings have alluded to the international cancer known as ICLEI.  Over 600 cities or county governments pay dues and have treasonous contracts with this NGO (Non-governmental Organization).  It is extremely important to note here that No. Little Rock Mayor Patrick Hayes is the CEO of this unconstitutional organization…the U.S. Division.

On to the local scene, the Fort Smith Times Record has topically reported on one of the bastard babies known as New Market Tax Credits.
The Act was supposedly not designed for high-end developers and opulent buildings and now goes totally against the intent of the New Markets program. The Act was designed to refurbish impoverished areas, but as all government programs, no matter the good intentions, they are ultimately corrupted.

New Market Tax Credits theoretically dole out federal subsidies to neighborhoods that have a 26% poverty rate.  By today’s standards, many if not most neighborhoods would qualify.  One brief example regarding the abuse of New Market tax credits involved the revered Blackstone Hotel in Chicago (where else but Chicago?).   The Blackstone, through nefarious deals orchestrated by Prudential Financial, Inc. ,  J.P. Morgan Chase, U.S. Bancorp’s, received $116 million renovation subsidies and divvied up between the aforementioned.

Enter the Fort Smith Housing Authority board of directors.  Citizens, did you know that the F.S. Housing Authority (HUD) board of commissioners arrive at political positions that the F.S. city government cannot overturn, another unelected economic cabal.   HUD czar is Richard Griffin.  In early 2010 Griffin, Ken Pyle, Steve Clark of credit card fame abuse, & Norm McLoughlin, a legal & financial consultant, and Jim Dunn (Marshall Museum executive director) attended a seminar in Miami to learn the ins & outs of New Market Tax Credits. 

Regarding the F.S. Marshall’s Museum, Richard Griffin, Commission Chairman, is quoted “if not us, who?” And further expanded his quotation “is it getting out of the box of housing? Yes.  At the end of the day, it’s a grant” (taxpayer money) It must be remembered that the proposed museum was to be endowed by private funding. It’s quite apparent that Griffin and his followers are intent on using HUD money (our money) to attack the private sector.  Today HUD owns 11,049 properties in Fort Smith according to their website, which is breathtaking, and at present HUD is in a pre-foreclosure & foreclosure on 77 properties. More failed & expensive government projects, and just how did they obtain 11,049 properties? Every expansion by HUD, New Market Tax Credits, and the rest of the bastard babies are closing the door on private enterprise and giving the United Nations a leg up.  Griffin’s quote “getting out of the box of housing? Yes.” Is indicative that the HUD board, Griffin, Pyle, etc. anticipate using HUD structure to further compete with private enterprise using citizen taxpayer dollars.

Was Griffin’s admission related to using New Market Tax Credits to fund the Marshall’s Museum and if not why did the museum Executive Director Dunn travel to Miami with Griffin, et al and who paid for Dunn’s trip and the rest of the attendees?  What is the ultimate payoff for each of the Miami participants?
So at the real end of the day, does Griffin plan to follow the Blackstone Hotel abuse example?  He and the F.S. Housing Authority can apply for federal New Market Tax Credits, at which time Griffin can sell the tax credits to investors. Will there be a local banking institution involved in this venture, e.g. First National?
Is Griffin using New Market Tax Credits to fund his impending Garrison Ave. projects– a Quickie, liquor store, service station and the remodeling of the New Theater?

All the above information was compiled & written on or before July 21, 2011.  Some of the following data was published in Friday’s edition (7/22/11) of the Times Record.

 More development and expansion by Griffin/HUD/financiers, all at the expense of middleclass taxpayers, e.g. Agenda 21 to the fore.  Executive Director of the Fort Smith Housing Authority Ken Pyle is quoted as saying “we are really feeling good”. Notice more Agenda 21 from the New Market Tax Credits…a $60 million food processing plant (why?), a regional food bank (why?), a social services campus for the Homeless (why?). This is a working example of Collectivism.  It is another example of an extension of Agenda 21 and its bastard babies, expanding government, enriching insiders, attacking free enterprise, and controlling citizens.  Not one question by Times Record reporter Ben Boulden regarding the why & who of this explosive revelation, particularly the $60 million food processing plant. The audacity of Pyle hustling for a “social services” campus.  In reality only 4% of citizens cannot fend for themselves. Their every need is already taken care of. The remaining 96% on the dole are deadbeats and so choose to be. Pyle apparently thinks using the word “campus” cleans up the sordid mess & stench to make it palatable to citizens.  Pyle and other “concerned” citizens can fund it and leave the beleaguered Makers (private sector taxpayers) alone and by the way, where are the churches in this production…not just an occasional grocery hand-out?

New Market Tax Credits=Takers take from the Makers.
Of extreme interest to all freedom loving citizens was an article titled “Housing Authority Collects Redevelopment Funds”.  Note the vulgar amount of money collected by the Fort Smith Housing Authority–$235 million in investment commitments. Remember, this commitment comes directly under the aegis of the New Market Tax Credits.  Further, as shown in the earlier part of this piece big time financial institutions have joined in the taxpayer subsidized economic scam; JP Morgan Chase, Morgan Keegan, US Bancorps… these bailed out by the Obama “stimulus” package, followed by Stephens, Inc., locally First National Bank of Fort Smith (no surprise here), Bank of the Ozarks, Arvest, and possibly others.  It should be noted that the CEO of JP Morgan Chase is a board member of the NY Federal Reserve & JP Morgan Chase received $67 billion of Obama’s stimulus loot and here we find Morgan Chase stealing more taxpayer largesse, compliments of the New Market Tax Credits.

The first part of this piece alluded to the opulent spending on the Blackstone Hotel in Chicago and here again, JP Morgan Chase, US Bancorps divvied up $116 million in renovation subsidies.
New Market Tax Credits operating on the backs of middleclass Americans and further edging toward bankrupting America by subsidizing land, building owners, raw land development, contractors, all with huge tax write-offs, compliments of the U.S. Treasury & the IRS…all by design.

We are witnessing the resurrection of Urban Renewal 2000 style— government theft on a grander scale, coupled with the usual scurrilous opportunists.

Historians declare that America’s Declaration of Independence is man’s greatest achievement.  This achievement is now being buried under the United Nations Agenda 21’s global attack.  
Let this be firmly ensconced in your brain: every time a politician or bureaucrat creates a commission, study group, task force, retreat, etc. be aware you are about to lose more of your hard earned money and freedom.

It’s all about global citizenship, the death of sovereignty…and it is here. Agenda 21 is in our town, Fort Smith, Arkansas.  Are the “leaders” sell-outs or just plain ignorant?

Joe McCutchen

www.fortsmithtruth.com
restoringhonornow.com/2011/06/28/agenda-21-saving-the-planet/
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