Why have the states allowed so much federal government overreach into their homes?

By Kathleen Marquardt

In so many ways, the federal government has encroached, no, taken over control of states. With the Waters of the United States, Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing, Regionalism, Smart Cities, ICLEI, Green Mayors, and on, and on, the federal government controls what happens in every city, county, town, state of the United States.

Congressmen Mike Lee and Paul Gosar have introduced legislation to do away with AFFH. Sounds wonderful, doesn't it? But go back a couple of decades, in 1992 George H.W, Bush signed the Rio Declaration, Agenda 21, but it never was brought up for a vote in Congress. The next year Bill Clinton became president and assigned VP Al Gore to head "The President's Commission on Sustainable Development." Gore did a bang-up job with it, embedded it into every department of the federal government, then shut down the Commission saying that it was gone, nothing to be afraid of.

Nope, nothing to be afraid of.

Those departments, especially HUD and DOT, went on to give grants (with permanent strings attached) to all of the lower governments in the states. Besides getting local governments to sign on to stringent environment regs that restrict and even frequently steal private property, they have been developing Regionalism in all of the states......To Read More....