{"id":1279,"date":"2014-08-14T09:54:17","date_gmt":"2014-08-14T13:54:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.granitestatefutures.org\/?p=1279"},"modified":"2014-08-14T09:54:17","modified_gmt":"2014-08-14T13:54:17","slug":"central-planners-at-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/granitestatefutures.org\/news\/2014\/08\/14\/central-planners-at-work\/","title":{"rendered":"Central Planners at Work"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Remember, most of these people serve as UNELECTED bureaucrats fueled by federal and local dollars and who are working for the federal government on soviet-style regional commissions, and may have a greater say in what goes on in YOUR town than the average taxpayer. They will work to create &#8220;Public-Private Partnerships&#8221;  taking direction from private interests that may not serve the ideas of the general population.<\/p>\n<p>Notice that the Chamber of Commerce praises the raise in the gas tax.<\/p>\n<p>In Bedford, voters overwhelmingly approved an &#8220;overlay district&#8221; on River Road, apparently missing the fact that this will only serve to turn Bedford into a city.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Inward migration&#8221; is the key word here, as that is the master plan of the federal government \u2014 to get residents to reject rural and suburban living in favor of the car-less, close quarters of the new urbanism&#8217;s &#8220;compact housing&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/96273244\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" frameborder=\"0\" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/96273244\">05-20-14 GMCC Panel Discussion<\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>If the above video does not appear on your device, use this direct link:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/96273244\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/vimeo.com\/96273244<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remember, most of these people serve as UNELECTED bureaucrats fueled by federal and local dollars and who are working for the federal government on soviet-style regional commissions, and may have a greater say in what goes on in YOUR town than the average taxpayer. They will work to create &#8220;Public-Private Partnerships&#8221; taking direction from private [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,15,26,29,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bedford","category-goffstown","category-manchester","category-misc","category-rindge"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/granitestatefutures.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1279","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/granitestatefutures.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/granitestatefutures.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/granitestatefutures.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/granitestatefutures.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1279"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/granitestatefutures.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1279\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/granitestatefutures.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/granitestatefutures.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/granitestatefutures.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}