Posted on 04/07/2021 5:54:08 AM PDT by deport
How is it anybody thought that “federal order aimed at stopping evictions” was enforceable in the first place?
Much the same here. A lot get a total package much larger than they would for working. The giverment pays too well with too many benefits to make working pay. On top of the regular bennies the indians around here get more than that but a whole lot still go to waddlemart in their pajamas.
I have a 63 year old friend whose office closed due to Covid. Her daughter has been living with her and paying the condo association fee and utilities. Daughter is moving so my friend has been looking for a job to tide her over....any job. She walked into a local Denney’s and the older female manager hired her on the spot because.....I’m going to start hiring older people because these kids just don’t show up for work, or if they do they don’t want to work.
In the years ahead, we are going to see the terrible damage this ham-handed stupidity has wrought to our economy, industry, and society.
And I believe, in some quarters, it is both intentional and celebrated.
Just one example:
nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation..
I could count at least 20 clauses in the Constitution that have been blatantly violated since the beginning of the pandemic. It is the destruction of this document that the left cheers.
Ironically, the protesters on the 6th of January were demanding that the Constitution be upheld as written. Calling that an insurrection just proves that the left no longer views the Constitution as the foundation of the government of the United States.
Maybe they’ll go back to the lib states they cane from...if they require lib “laws” and ways, to survive.
But they already spent all the ‘free’ money received from the government, so they still can’t pay rent. Waaaaaah.
Good. About time.
The TX economy didn’t falter. Sure, maybe a small percentage of people were hurt but not like in other states. Shopping didn’t slow down and parking lots were always full. Salons and other non-essential businesses stayed open despite being told to shut down. I never heard of any shop being closed locally.
If anything, construction picked up and it has always been strong. Big money was spent on buying land and building mcmansions. Here, they’re buying lots for $600 to 800K, bulldozing the decent houses sitting on them and building mcmansions. We haven’t had a day of silence from saws and drills and loud construction work this whole year.
My take away from the story:
The Texas state court system is signaling that it will no longer enforce a federal order...
Good trend.
But, there is absolutely NO WAY the CDC enjoys the authority to issue such a directive. It’s an insane usurpation of the civil rights of the landlords. Insane.
This.
I went to Easter breakfast with my in-laws, and listened to their son talk about the pandemic (he is a full Lefty Millenial) and I had to bite my tongue because I was a guest and it was not my house.
But he sounds like one who buys into that blasphemy.
I have a nephew who had spent time in jail for using a baseball bat to put thugs into the hospital who had beaten up his older brother, he did his time, rehabilitated himself, and started his own business (a personal training gym) from scratch only to have the government shut him down due to this ‘pandemic’.
They put the screws to him, and give money to people who aren’t paying their bills (including rent) instead.
It just pisses me off. I have a huge amount of respect for him, but it appears he is just the kind of person they want to put the screws to.
Alexandr Solzhenitsyn described in his seminal work “The Gulag Archipelago” how the Soviet Union had the most beautifully designed constitution that was, by law legally made available to anyone at any time, including prisoners. But as beautiful as it was on paper for the protection of individual rights and such, it was utterly worthless because it was either openly ignored, or the Soviet “judges” and legislators had it interpreted to mean whatever they needed it to mean in order to tyrannize the citizenry.
I feel that is the point we are at in this country.
Guess you should have used some of that gub mint money paying rent instead of buying that 65 inch TV.
Well, there will be a flood because there was a dam.
I rent. I oppose requiring that hapless property owners go unpaid and I can’t see where it was legal to declare this.
Well, you signed the rental contract, you are obligated to pay your rent. The landlord can’t foot the bill forever.
I hate to hear that. The same scenario is playing out thousands of times across the country, but the irresponsible are protected.
I’m suspecting there will be some sort of bailout for property owners in the form of “we’ll forgive back taxes/liability, if you sign up for Section 8 or sell to liberal nonprofits”.
There was an article a couple of weeks ago that said that the TOTAL loss of tax revenues to states was $7.1 Billion, year over year for 2020, as part of commenting on the $350 Billion ‘relief’ program for states.
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