Friday 29 July 2011

GHOST TOWNS ON THE INCREASE AS RURAL AMERICA ACCOUNTS FOR JUST 16% OF POPULATION


Accidental or part of Agenda 21? The removal of people from the country into densely packed cities is not mere happenstance but a planned long term action by, once again, the PTB that are trying to “herd” the cattle/chattel into smaller denser areas. You don’t really think that this is about jobs, do you? Or the loss of productive farmlands? This has been part of the long term build up to the implementation of Agenda 21.

The land is not lost, the earth belongs to us all, but for now it has been stolen by the bankers and handed over to their agribusiness buddies!

And never forget living in the country promotes individual thought and independence, unwanted tendencies in the sheeple of today.

The war on our food suppliers, our farmers, has been unrelenting since the 1930’s with the Great Depression when so many were forced to just walk away from their land. That planned disaster for so many people was a large land grab by the banks, one of the first major actions taken once the power of the Federal Reserve had been fully put into play. And so it has been since then, the war on farmers and country folk by the banks. Making farming so expensive and so difficult and now so regulated that most farmers went out of business.  Agribusiness is definitely part of this, control over our food.

Another goal of Agenda 21 is to shift populations into several designated areas where conditions are crowded and access to rural areas restricted. A populace is much easier to control if they are packed tight, the effects of such living being both psychological as well as economic. And who is behind all of this implementation of Agenda 21 as part of the NWO wildlife acts and population reduction?

Just mentioning, all that aged infrastructure, weather terrorism, are intended to shift populations, to clear areas up for other use. Wars, flooding, tornadoes, flooding. Consider Katrina and how that changed the demographics forever, to the joy of TPTB.

This is part of the class and genocidal war undeclared by the elite on the people. Part of the long term plan set out to recreate the American wilderness. Densely packed civilizations will spread disease better, ah, yes, back to Agenda 21! Yes once again look to population reduction and land control as NOT being accidental.

Please keep these in mind as you read the following:

 
Blackout: This official graphic shows dominant U.S. urban areas, marked in white, while large swathes of rural areas are becoming darker as people move away

Migration will form a virtual mega-city stretching through Boston, New York City, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Baltimore, Maryland and ending in the capital Washington D.C.

In 1910 72% of Americans lived in rural areas.

Daily Mail
July 22, 2011

Vast swathes of the U.S. countryside are emptying and communities becoming ghost towns as rural America now only accounts for just 16 per cent of the population.

The 2010 census results suggest that by 2050 many of these areas could shrink to virtually nothing as businesses collapse and schools close.

This dramatic population implosion is the culmination of a century of migration to cities, as in 1910 the share of rural America was at 72 per cent.

In 1950 the countryside remained home to a majority of Americans, amid post-World War II economic expansion and the baby boom.

However, once busy areas have been abandoned, in South Dakota for example, the town of Scenic is up for sale for $799,000 as today just eight people live there.

Overall the share of people in rural areas over the past decade fell to 16 percent, passing the previous low of 20 percent in 2000, and is expected to drop further because of the economic crisis.

But in contrast American cities are booming and will continue to swallow suburban communities, producing a virtual mega-city stretching through Boston, Massachusetts, through New York City, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Baltimore, Maryland and ending in the capital Washington, D.C.

‘Some of the most isolated rural areas face a major uphill battle, with a broad area of the country emptying out,’ said Mark Mather, associate vice president of the Population Reference Bureau, a research group in Washington, D.C.

‘Many rural areas can’t attract workers because there aren’t any jobs, and businesses won’t relocate there because there aren’t enough qualified workers. So they are caught in a downward spiral.’

The rural share is expected to drop further as the U.S. population balloons from 309 million to 400 million by 2050, leading even more people to crowd cities and suburbs and fill in the land around them.

In 2010, the census found cities grew overall by 11 percent with the biggest gains in suburbs or small- or medium-sized cities.

In fact, of the 10 fastest-growing places, all were small cities incorporated into the suburbs of expanding metro areas, mostly in California, Arizona and Texas.

In all, the share of Americans living in suburbs has climbed to an all-time high of 51 percent.

Despite sharp declines in big cities in the Northeast and Midwest since 2000 due to the recession, U.S. cities increased their share by 3 percent to a third.

The data was supplemented with calculations by Robert Lang, a sociology professor at the University of Nevada-Las Vegas, and William H. Frey, a demographer at the Brookings Institution.

In the census ‘rural’ is generally defined as non-metropolitan areas with fewer than 50,000 people.

‘These new patterns suggest that there will be a blurring of boundaries as regions expand well beyond official government-defined definitions,’ Mr. Frey said.

‘People like to have it all ~ affordable housing in a smaller-town setting but in close proximity to jobs and big-city amenities such as specialized shopping, cultural events and major sports and entertainment venues.’

Areas like the Great Plains in the central U.S. and Appalachia in the East, along with parts of the South and Texas could face the most significant population declines, demographers say.

These places suffered some of the biggest losses over the past decade as young adults left and the people who stayed got older, moving past childbearing years.

Rural towns are scrambling to attract new residents and stave off heavy funding cuts from financially strapped federal and state governments.

Delta Air Lines recently announced it would end flight service to 24 small airports, several of them in the Great Plains, and the U.S.

The U.S. Postal Service is mulling plans to close thousands of branches in mostly rural areas of the country.

Many rural areas, the central Great Plains in particular, have been steadily losing population since the 1930s with few signs of the trend slowing in coming decades.

Among the struggling rural areas are vast stretches of West Virginia in Appalachia. Several of the state’s counties over the past decade have lost large chunks of their population following the collapse of logging and coal-mining industries.

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