Guilds
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Not really in the Senate.
The filabuster favors the minority…except for budget issues.
Maybe they should try to govern more to the middle, instead of the extreme “proggie left” they are trying these days?
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Guilds
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What do you consider the middle? JFK?
WuWei
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That’s not what they said when the republicans had it all.
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Oryx
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Housing is a problem in this country, but an eviction ban isn’t a long-term solution, and as usual, Democrats don’t seem to understand that when they use government to help fix a problem, it usually causes other problems.
But most of the nation’s landlords are individual investors, including “mom and pop” landlords who own a few units as their primary source of income. Some rely on those properties to fund retirement. While some landlords unfairly harass their tenants, there are also tenants who are abusing the eviction moratorium to dodge rent, with no intention of ever paying it back. No single anecdote captures the complexity of the problem.
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Guvnah
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There never should have been an eviction ban at all, right from the very start.
Had there been no eviction ban, a lot of that government graft that was tossed a citizens would have been prioritized toward housing by the individuals getting it. (And most people got it.)
We can discuss the propriety of those stimulus payments elsewhere. They shouldn’t have happened either. But given that they did, far too much of it went to individual spending on things other than housing.
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Oryx
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I agree. Good intentions, I think, but too many unintended consequences.
Guvnah
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Much of what government does ends up this way.
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How about Joe Machin instead?
He’s a long way away from JBiden at the moment.
Guilds
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Manchin is basically a Republican…and he is in the pocket of many corps.
It would be nice to get money out of the election and legislative process…or at least minimize it’s influence.
DougBH
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I don’t understand any of this. We are told employees can’t find enough workers and yet more money has to be doled out due to the pandemic. If people are all working, why does more money have to be doled out? Why do people not need to pay their rent?
And why would people risk going into the rental business if they are told the other party isn’t even going to be required to pay their rent?
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And that is that the Supreme Court shot down the CDC eviction ban.
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komobu
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They got this one right, 18 months late, but they finally got it.
I dont really like that the court signaled that the congress has the authority to institute the moratorium. Either we have property rights in this country or we dont. We have a 5th ammendment that says private property cant be taken for govt use without compensation. That compensation did not happen in this case.
“It is hard to see what measures this interpretation would place outside the CDC’s reach. … Could the CDC, for example, mandate free grocery delivery to the homes of the sick or vulnerable? Require manufacturers to provide free computers to enable people to work from home? Order telecommunications companies to provide free high-speed Internet service to facilitate remote work?” the high court asked in its ruling.
Why should Congress have this type of power?
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Most agree as do I you can’t just take peoples homes from them that own it that is the opposite of the country, yet the impact of homeless will be tragic to watch unfold.
It’s going to get ugly and has already been getting worse before this happened where I live anyways.
I’m so surprised that the Democratic judges dissented…
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DMK
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[quote=“Axxowiz, post:78, topic:239745, full:true”]
Most agree as do I you can’t just take peoples homes from them that own it that is the opposite of the country, yet the impact of homeless will be tragic to watch unfold.
It’s going to get ugly and has already been getting worse before this happened where I live anyways.[/quote]
The government created this mess. The ugly that unfolds is their fault. But, hey. Folks still will look to them for parenting.
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