The United Nations, backed by the moneyed power of George Soros, developed a plan more than two decades ago for so-called sustainable development called Agenda 21. According to Raven Clabough in The New American, Agenda 21 is nothing more than another name for a socialist world government based on a moneyless, statist, classless society.
Like apple pie, people the world over find little to disagree with regarding Agenda 21 because it is based on “green,” on environmentalism, and on saving the planet from the people who inhabit it. Under the guise of the good stuff, Agenda 21 is about wealth redistribution. Yes, its agenda is to reduce the wealth of nations that earned their own prosperity to the ones that didn’t.
Not to be outdone by the world, California legislature invited notable liberal left academics to advise the legislative body on wealth redistribution in the state. Does California have an obvious disparity between wealth and poverty? One might look around California to find few poor in sight, but that wasn’t the opinion of the learned liberal leaders nor of the Assembly that asked them in.
The CA Legislature had no other perspectives to draw from when they invited Paul Pierson and Sylvia Allegretto, UC Berkeley, Ann Stevens UC Davis, Jeffrey Michaels, University of Pacific Business Forecasting center. According to Cal Watch Dog, the academics were called in to advise the State Assembly on reforms to improve California’s economy. What were they expected to say: no, we don’t want more money for education and, yes, we love capitalism, the free market, and business?
The academics advised for more state income tax, higher tax on gasoline, removing Proposition 13, which would unfreeze affordable property taxes, increase inheritance tax, more unionization, reduce corporate tax exclusions, and the coup d’etat, ridding the state of enterprise zones. Did I mention that California academics are paid with taxpayer dollars?
They flat out advised wealth redistribution to be conducted by government against the private sector. The apparent view of the advisors is that earning one’s way in business is equivalent to earning one’s way illegitimately. Those who manage to do it well are punished by government rules, regulations, and laws of restriction to such a degree that businesses are currently moving out of California in droves. One wonders what academics will do when the producers of products are gone from the state. Will their intellects expand when the means of production for convenient living leave the state?
What goes on in California is a scale model of Agenda 21. Both smack of Karl Marxism, love of government, hatred of the private sector, and creeping socialism. And it doesn’t work because--well, to use their own word--it’s not sustainable. The fall of states, nations, and perhaps the world cannot get along with the means of production held captive by government. End of story.
It started around the world, is now showing in California, and may be coming to your local locality.
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