Things are far too along for any real freedom to be reclaimed without a major uprising against the gubmint.

Too bad nobody seems to mind the constant, creeping impingement on our liberty.

First,

““Land …cannot be treated as an ordinary asset, controlled by individuals and subject to the pressures and inefficiencies of the market. Private land ownership is also a principle instrument of accumulation and concentration of wealth, therefore, contributes to social injustice.”
1976 UN’s Habitat I conference

Second,

In the rural areas it’s called the Wildlands Project.
In the cities it’s called Smart Growth.
In business it’s called Public/Private Partnerships.
In government it’s called Stakeholder Councils and Non-elected Boards and Regional Government.

Third,

It comes in many names and many programs. Heritage areas, land management, wolf and bear reintroduction, rails to trails, conservation easements, open space, and many more.

Each of these programs is designed to make it just a little harder to live on the land – a little more expensive – a little more hopeless.

After they herd people into the cities:
There is a restriction on space inside the controlled city limits there is a shortage of houses, so prices go up. That means populations will have to be controlled, because now there is a shortage of land.

UN Agenda 21. New Jersey is well suited geographically. Most of NJ except the Pine Barrens are in a Co-op zone. Consider this when purchasing your nompounds.

“President Obama said, “I am pleased that these Governors of exceptional experience have agreed to join the Council of Governors. This bipartisan team strengthens the partnership between our State Governments and the Federal Government when it comes to ensuring our national preparedness and homeland defense. I look forward to working with them in the years ahead.”

We are f#cked. Its over. If we stay we risk getting irradiated by a false flag attack on one of our cities. There is no where to run to.

Its a battle between the military industrial complex hell bent on starting WW3 and a bunch of Communist subversives trying to turn us into a 3rd world country.

I am not plg, but I have to ask the question.

“Bush at least lowered tax rates to give more dollars back to the people”

The cost of the tax cuts is 1.8 trillion. Who picks up that check?

“Point is, so long as one’s living standard is not diminishing and in fact rising, who cares how the next quartile (quintile, decile) is performing.”

Please make your case that the middle class has a better living standard than it did 10/20/30 years ago.

I will give you creature comforts – microwaves, larger houses, designer kitchens. However, factor in two working parents, later retirements, the cost of child care, no pensions (for most of us anyway), the potentially debilitating cost of healthcare and so on.

You would be hard-pressed to make me believe that the average Joe is better off, even with that 75k salary and a wife making half that.

And, as I said, the cost of ‘important’ goods and services – I’m not talking granite countertops here but rather food, fuel, etc. – is going to be rising, and probably sharply, in years to come as more workers overseas come closer in parity with American salaries. All the while American salaries will continue to stagnate or at best match pace with normal inflation.

Spray-on liquid glass.

Since money is no object, I propose you start a new campaign – PSLS for DSLS.

You are also exposing your mom to infinite potential downside for as far out as you can imagine.

As an investment, this one is potentially zero upside, 100% loss on the down.

Don’t know about the tax credit thing. However, I’d strongly suggest not getting your mom anywhere near your purchase of residential RE.

Take it from both my professional and personal experience: it will not end well.