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RhodeMap RI unnecessary

Posted 12/18/14

To the Editor:

It is so oft stated that the road to the R.I. Adult Corrections Institution is paved with good intentions. The same can be said of RhodeMap RI, a social experiment being forced upon …

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RhodeMap RI unnecessary

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To the Editor:

It is so oft stated that the road to the R.I. Adult Corrections Institution is paved with good intentions. The same can be said of RhodeMap RI, a social experiment being forced upon R.I. residential property owners by a cadre of non-elected public officials who clearly seem to be wedded to progressive liberalism to the disdain of common sense and basic economics. Advocates of RhodeMap RI want to create affordable housing opportunities for a minority sector of R.I.’s economic population, which will have an irreparable effect on R.I.’s well-settled neighborhoods. Why anyone sees value in serving a few at the expense of many is beyond my level of comprehension. RhodeMap RI’s social equity scheme would fit neatly into one of Stalin’s five-year plans of the 1950s. Their failures abound in modern history.

In the early 1980s, Rhode Islanders were confronted with a similar boondoggle approach to the future. Does anyone remember the Green House Compact? It went down in flames after voters were afforded the opportunity to review, consider and decide. My guess is, if the RhodeMap RI proposal is properly vetted by our General Assembly and the media and then offered to R.I. voters as a referendum, it will also crash and burn.

There are adequate legal measures in the R.I. General Laws to protect and promote affordable housing. Rhode

Map RI is unnecessary.

Fred E. Joslyn Jr.

Cranston

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  • falina

    RhodeMAP RI is not only unnecessary, but it is wrong and scary. The redistribution of assets, income and property determined by the color of a person's skin disturbing to say the very least. To take away someone's hard earned money and/ or property to redistribute to a less motivated or even lazy individual is unconscionable. Does anyone really want the government telling them where to live and more importantly, how? The fact that this "plan" was devised and implemented without the taxpayers' or even elected officials' input speaks to it's nature, especially the well buried and hard to find appendix A, which after much searching, finally provided a manifesto as to how everything was to be implemented with a focus on a person's skin color. Not their, effort, not their education, not their motivation....simply by their color. Not everyone wants to live in "dense housing" with pooled community resources, including yard space to contain "suburban sprawl". The documents also speak to an all "inclusive" communities with shared common "greenspaces" and equal "opportunities" for all. That really does sound wonderful in theory,everyone of every culture living together in perfect harmony, the great American melting pot. However the reality is not everyone, and they shouldn't have to be wants to be thrown together with everyone else, nor should they have to be. Not everyone is willing to do the work involved for what they have. There are all kinds of people in the world, and our differences are what make us interesting as human beings. However, just like their are good people in the world, hardworking, loving, caring and charitable, there are bad people among us; lazy, greedy conniving, untrustworthy, criminal and downright evil . Do we really want our government telling us that we must live among and associate regularly with people who may do us harm, especially our children? Thieves? Killers? Rapists? Pedophiles? It is a disturbing thought, but more frightening is the fact that a small panel of unelected officials can determine who gets what, where, when and how. That very fact violates everything that we love, appreciate and enjoy as Americans. To say everything is going to be distributed by skin color and not merit....not the hard work put in in becoming, say, a doctor, or successful business woman and redistribute those hard-fought earnings to someone who desires to stay home and watch Jerry Springer and soap operas instead of getting a job, under the guise of equal "opportunity", is just Communist, criminal, violating, racist and just plain un-American.

    Thursday, December 18, 2014 Report this

  • Straightnnarrow

    Kudos to Mr Koslyn for letter and Mr Falina for comment.

    Friday, December 19, 2014 Report this

  • ronruggieri

    I hear the Ayn Rand inspired Center for Freedom and Prosperity quacking here. It is just the liberal-progressive-SOCIALIST perspective that puts humanity and common decency above the capitalist profit system and above the excessive comfort of the oblivious affluent in the Warwick, Cranston, Barrington suburbs. The high priests of Ayn Rand at the Center are really deep thinkers: a world in which THEY are on top or almost on top is the best of all possible worlds. No, don't sacrifice ANY of your comforts so that poor blacks in the big city slums can rise above the norm of squalor, misery , and hopelessness. What does Ayn Rand's godless " objectivism " have to offer the " Other America " ?

    Please defend right here her " Virtue of Selfishness ". But I suspect the brains at the Center of Freedom and Prosperity are really intellectual dullards with an attitude- an unjustified attitude- of political and educational superiority. Can they ever rise above their own Holy Book, " The Virtue of Selfishness ," and their own Pope , Ayn Rand ? The blasphemous religion of capitalism ?

    Friday, December 26, 2014 Report this

  • falina

    Ron Ruggieri, I'll do you one better. How about the virtue of "personal accountability"? Because a lot of people are justifiably angry and tired of assuming responsibility for other people's poor choices under the often touted Socialist guise of "shared sacrifice". The recent election cycle proved that. You cannot tax people into prosperity. And you cannot motivate those to work for personal achievement and prosperity when they have no reason to do so because they are receiving their share with no involved effort for free. Ayn Rand has nothing to do with it. Just a bunch of fed up Americans.

    Thursday, January 1, 2015 Report this