Posted on 08/27/2021 7:40:11 AM PDT by Kaslin
As a global pandemic raged and governments began locking down and sheltering citizens in place, the United States Congress allocated $46.5 billion in rental assistance. With a moratorium in place to prevent evictions, Congress was mindful landlords would need help paying the mortgages on their rental properties. Renters would need help paying rent.
Over the last year, only $1.7 billion of the $46.5 billion has been distributed. Now, with the Supreme Court unwilling to extend an eviction moratorium Congress did not actually authorize and Congress also unwilling to extend it, evictions will begin. It was avoidable because Congress allocated the money to help renters. The bureaucracy just never spent it.
Vaccine hesitancy has come, in part, not because of crank videos on the internet and supposed experts dabbling in conspiracy, but through government incompetence. The pause of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine spooked Americans. The government paused the rollout of that vaccine due to a slight risk of blood clots in women. The risk of clotting is actually less than the risk of clotting from birth control pills, but the government freaked out about the former and has considered the latter just incidental.
Skepticism over COVID-19 comes with mask mandates. The governor of Oregon just ordered an outdoor mask mandate. Outside is literally the safest place to be from COVID-19. Masks are not required. But government institutions have shut down beaches, skate parks and playgrounds, all of which the actual science shows are safe, even with people gathered. The virus is spreading inside, not outside. Likewise, globally, Americans are the only ones putting elementary school children in masks. It has become dogma, but there is no evidence for the efficacy of masking toddlers.
Inflation is on the rise. From groceries to utilities to gas for their cars, Americans are feeling inflation in their wallets. The Biden administration says it is "transitory," even as more and more economists expect it to be around for a while. But the government pretends nothing is wrong.
Regarding law enforcement, our politicians have turned their backs on the police. Crime is spreading across the country. Police refuse to police. Should something unfortunate happen in an arrest, the officer becomes the fall guy. At the federal level, the FBI continues to reveal itself to be a hotbed of incompetence and politics. Our intelligence systems are broken, feeding bad and inaccurate information to policymakers. Our military leadership is more interested in critical race theory than countering China.
Afghanistan is our national humiliation. The Biden administration ignored warnings, the president himself ignored his advisers, and now the United States, after 20 years, is returning the Taliban to power. Even now, our president is being dictated to by the Taliban. If former President Donald Trump were in charge, the American press corps would assume Trump was bought and paid for by the Taliban. Maybe they are the ones who bought Hunter Biden's paintings.
Between A.D. 235 and A.D. 284, crisis fell upon the Roman Empire. The "Crisis of the Third Century" is studied in history classes. In 50 years, there were 26 claimants to the Roman imperial throne. Eventually, the empire split into three separate states, all of which not only claimed some connection to Rome, but also to local ties. It took Emperor Aurelian to put the pieces of the empire back together before he himself was murdered by his aides. The crisis finally resolved itself with the rise of Diocletian.
Through the Crisis of the Third Century, the Roman bureaucracy functioned and kept the empire going. Taxes were collected. Crimes were punished. Sanitation and water projects were funded and completed. It remains one of the remarkable characteristics of the Roman Empire. As emperors were slaughtered in their sleep and soldiers killed other soldiers, the Roman bureaucracy collected the taxes, harvested the grain, made the bread and fed the people. It was not perfect. There were problems. But the bureaucracy mostly functioned competently.
Our nation is breaking apart. Americans spend their time hating their neighbors. The politicians focus on election instead of policy. The bureaucracy is sclerotic. Reforms are needed and there are no reformers willing to act. We are in the crisis of our third century now.
Didn’t Erick NOT vote for Trump?
What did he think he would get?
Time for a rebirth of our Constitution and Declaration of Independence. If we lose, so be it. Better to die on our feet than a slow death on our knees.
Seems to me the money should go to the owners (I'm not an owner) who have lost millions due to unpaid rents. The renters got free rent for a year and a half and I doubt that many will even bother to try to catch up.
There was never a real pandemic. Epidemic maybe. It was a PINO. They said 2 million Americans would die in the first 3 months. The media and Fauci and Bill Gates were positively giddy about the prospect of dead bodies in the streets. We or should I say they still haven’t been able to document 700,000 deaths in almost 2 years even with all the creative bookkeeping and outright exaggeration. They are still riding the pandemic horse even after it has become swayback and has a broken leg and the shoes came off and it is blind. Way past glue factory.
Erick, the Never Trumper got exactly what he paid for. Now he has blood on his hands and is sounding conservative again in an attempt to wash it off.
He and the rest can simply KMA.
We need an Article V Constitutional Convention. This country is very broken.
Folks who are not in nursing homes are more likely to die in auto accidents than from Covid.
My worry is that when the CDC figures this out they will try to ban “killer” automobiles to stop the “epidemic in traffic deaths”.
The problem is that the Democrats don’t believe in rule of law.
A new piece of paper is not gonna fix that.
America’s founders wisely knew this, and created a Federal system, with nearly all powers designated to the States. They understood very well the corruption of centralized power, kings, and the circle of grifting, arrogant elites who live in imperial capitals.
Progressives have destroyed American Federalism this by taking more and more power for the center. They are in the final process of destroying the country with massive debt in printed, fake, manipulated paper money.
EE has no moral authority to lecture anyone about “hate”
He a total hate based tool of the DC political machine. He not “grass roots conservatives”, he is wholly owned DC astro turf.
Amen, lol.
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