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https://www.politico.com/news/2023/03/03/trump-policy-futuristic-cities-00085383Trump calls for contest to create futuristic Freedom Cities
The former president also wants to spark a wave of vertical-takeoff-and-landing vehicles.
By Meridith McGraw
03/03/2023 11:00 AM EST
Modern cities and flying cars might sound like the makings of an episode of the 1960s cartoon The Jetsons, where a fictionalized family flew around in Orbit City.
For former President Donald Trump, however, its the foundation of a new set of futuristic policy proposals.
In a video set to be released on Friday, Trump will call for a quantum leap in the American standard of living.
Trumps plan, shared in advance with POLITICO, calls for holding a contest to design and create up to ten new Freedom Cities, built from the ground up on federal land. It proposes an investment in the development of vertical-takeoff-and-landing vehicles; the creation of hives of industry sparked by cutting off imports from China; and a population surge sparked by baby bonuses to encourage would-be-parents to get on with procreation. It is all, his team says, part of a larger nationwide beautification campaign meant to inspire forward-looking visions of Americas future.
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Diamond_Dog
(31,982 posts)Duncanpup
(12,841 posts)Abnredleg
(669 posts)its a large industry with several aircraft getting close to certification and the FAA working on air management.
https://www.mckinsey.com/featured-insights/the-next-normal/air-taxis
Caliman73
(11,735 posts)The regulations and safety requirements will be gutted, there will be little interest in standards, and it will be a nightmare.
Trump and his people are completely stupid and they are just throwing feces at the wall to see if it will stick.
Instead of building cities from "the ground up" they should invest in making the cities we already have, better places to live by providing the residents with money, jobs, and chances at community development.
Trump's ideas are about "purification". How much do you want to bet that the selection criteria for these "cities of the future" will be restricted to "real Americans"?
Abnredleg
(669 posts)Given were talking about air taxis flying in urban areas. Industry will insist on tight regulation or the public wont fly on them, thus destroying the industry.
I completely agree with your comments on investing in our cities.
dweller
(23,629 posts)Pisswig is so insane
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BootinUp
(47,141 posts)hlthe2b
(102,232 posts)INFRASTRUCTURE WEEKS!
greatauntoftriplets
(175,731 posts)There won't be any forest floors left to rake. The Freedom Cities sound like something out of The Truman Show.
OAITW r.2.0
(24,455 posts)Immigrants? LOL.
Samrob
(4,298 posts)Volaris
(10,270 posts)President Not Predictable, he sure does have the bestest brain, dunnithe?!
I bet the Freedom Cities will even get to have Freedom Restaurants, and they'll even sell Freedom Fries and Freedom Hamberders on Sundays in honor of Freedom Jeezus!
Diamond_Dog
(31,982 posts)jcgoldie
(11,631 posts)Trenzalore
(2,331 posts)Air traffic control is a nightmare
EarlG
(21,947 posts)Aristus
(66,326 posts)is pretty low.
PatSeg
(47,416 posts)My god, he is really desperate and totally delusional.
Liberal In Texas
(13,548 posts)He'll have all this ready to go in 2 weeks.
hatrack
(59,584 posts)Very Space Age!!!
Celerity
(43,333 posts)Paladin
(28,254 posts)Jetson cities? Up-and-down jerkoff transportation? Do those "baby bonuses" go to anybody besides white people?
DeSantis and his people must be giddy with their good fortune.
Kennah
(14,256 posts)doc03
(35,325 posts)LakeArenal
(28,817 posts)We call them the suburbs. (Except for the Govt land part. Which after development Republicans would privatize to billionaires).