Bulldoze Dallas?
There is a glaring hole in the argument offered by Democrats that the policies they promote will ensure that America’s greatest days lie in our future, not in our past …
If their plans were to result in building a better America for tomorrow, why are they focused on tearing down our nation’s cities today?
I refer to an article printed last week by the Daily Telegraph (UK), in a piece written by Tom Leonard.
The article’s title explains the plan: “US cities may have to be bulldozed in order to survive.”
In the article, a county official from Flint, Michigan – Mr. Dan Kildee – explains his county’s plan to raze entire districts across large areas of his city. Flint has already taken down 1,100 structures. Another 3,000 are targeted for this path of destruction. According to Mr. Kildee, Flint needs to contract by more than 40 percent.
What’s more, Kildee and the academics from the University of California, Berkeley that support his plan see this as the first of 50 cities (identified by the left-leaning Brookings Institution) targeted for the chopping block. To them, in these cities “decline is a fact of life,” where resisting this deliberate destruction “is like resisting gravity.”
According to Kildee and the theoreticians at Brookings and Berkeley, most of these irretrievable cities are in the Mid-West and North East. Detroit, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh and Baltimore; all make this list. But what is the common thread among each of these once-great American cities? All are strongholds of the Democratic Party. Decline in the cities is not inevitable – the boarded-up homes, abandoned buildings and government subsidized demolition is actually the inevitable result of the Democrats’ policies of high taxes, excessive regulation and labor-union control of business.
My vision for Dallas is the exact opposite of Mr. Kildee’s. I don’t believe that American decline is as inevitable as gravity. To keep the “Berkeley bulldozer” out of Dallas, we need more pro-business policies to keep our economy growing and vibrant. If you want to keep Mr Kildee out of your neighborhood like I do, we need to make sure that our economy stays productive and continues to reward innovation.
For my pro-economic growth platform, see my Plan for Job Creation.
I believe that America’s greatest days are in our future, and that with this plan we can get our economy moving and create new jobs. In so doing, we can help to ensure that bulldozers will be used in our part of Texas for one thing: making room for new buildings that house new jobs and keep our economy strong.
All the best,
Pete Sessions
