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Old 08-03-2021, 10:24 AM
 
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I feel bad for the poor land lords. They still have to pay their bills. There are many renters sitting on their lazy behinds, instead of getting a job....and there are many jobs out there. My retired husband went out and got one.
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Old 08-03-2021, 11:13 AM
 
Location: Embarrassing, WA
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I'm generally middle to conservative leaning, and agree with much of the "get a job" responses being posted here. I live in WA ,and yes we have terribly high COL especially when compared to wages. Many middle to upper-middle class families live paycheck to paycheck due to the cost of housing. What is broken about this is many of these "non-essential" workers were FORCED to stay home, and accrued months of unpaid mortgage/rent. Prices of all the necessities shot up as well. When they went to apply for emergency UE benefits, we had a state website and call system that routinely crashed, was overloaded, and instantly rejected most applicants that had totally legit claims for unemployment. Many of the applicants hadn't even seen a $1 by the time the stay home order was lifted months later. Even with them going back to work as soon as possible, that ~$8,000-$10,000 of owed payments/rent is still looming and the cost of housing is already so high and takes a large bite out of each paycheck. They have resumed paying their rent or mortgage now that they are back to work, but many won't be able to pay that "back-rent" unless its converted into some "stretch pay" over a year or two. Most middle class working families here are lucky if they have $4,000/year in disposable income. Many of them, including a lot of my friends, sold their homes and left the state with sizable amounts of cash from home equity.
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Old 08-03-2021, 11:21 AM
 
Location: Cheektowaga, NY
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this is an outrage!!! There are no jobs out there for these poor, destitute renters.
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Old 08-03-2021, 11:29 AM
 
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https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/polit...ewsntp&pc=U531

Elections have consequences. Over 6 million people are due to be evicted with the moratorium coming to an end. This post is not to argue who should and who shouldn't be evicted. It's to point out the fact that when it's vacation time or even a day or two early, it's time for the congress critters to punch the timeclock regardless of what looms for the people (once again). Silence from Biden, Pelosi, Kamala, and all the big dem players (except Cori Bush who slept on the capitol steps in protest of Congress ending session). Worse yet, the states were issued ~$25 Billion for rent relief and less than 12% of it has been distributed. Empty promises from a socialist leaning regime once again.....imagine that!
At first, I thought this was going to be an unbiased, apolitical post, criticizing all of Congress. But then you went on to name a bunch of democrats without also naming any republicans. Oh well.

Also, you conveniently left out the part where the Biden administration tried to get an extension for the eviction moratorium, but the Supreme Court shot it down. You didn't mention that at all, that Biden actually did try.

But still....i agree with your overall point -- rich members of Congress who pretend to care about us refuse to miss out on vacation, as mllions of people may be evicted, and hundreds of thousands of landlords are being screwed over.

Whether you voted for Trump or Biden, I'm sure most people around here would agree that our government is broken and has been for some time.
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Old 08-03-2021, 11:40 AM
 
Location: Embarrassing, WA
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At first, I thought this was going to be an unbiased, apolitical post, criticizing all of Congress. But then you went on to name a bunch of democrats without also naming any republicans. Oh well.

Also, you conveniently left out the part where the Biden administration tried to get an extension for the eviction moratorium, but the Supreme Court shot it down. You didn't mention that at all, that Biden actually did try.

But still....i agree with your overall point -- rich members of Congress who pretend to care about us refuse to miss out on vacation, as mllions of people may be evicted, and hundreds of thousands of landlords are being screwed over.

Whether you voted for Trump or Biden, I'm sure most people around here would agree that our government is broken and has been for some time.
I simply can't get on board with the authoritarian far left, do as I say not as I do, nature of the Dems, and this leaves me focusing on the larger piles of excrement on their side at this time sorry. What escapes most people, is that the parties have actually flip flopped. Spend some time researching the CEO's of the top 50 major corporations and how they have politically identified, and you'll see that many of them flipped to the Dems in that last decade or less.....likely finding them more "puppetable". Follow the $$$$$$.

So, what is the motive for not extending the moratorium? The banks lobby so they get to take the homes and apartment units from the landlords that are in arears and sell them at big profits? The people that get evicted will have their rent worthiness and credit scarred, and will fall into public subsidized housing, more minions forced under control of the socialist leaning regime? Both?
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Old 08-03-2021, 11:44 AM
 
Location: Spring Hill, FL
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What escapes most people, is that the parties have actually flip flopped. Spend some time researching the CEO's of the top 50 major corporations and how they have politically identified, and you'll see that many of them flipped to the Dems in that last decade or less.....likely finding them more "puppetable". Follow the $$$$$$.
I don't know if the parties flipped as such, but they've certainly been moving. I just wonder if the CEO's actually care who runs the nation as long as their profit margins stay strong. I suspect a lot of them lobby both parties and their political affiliation is actually pretty shallow. It's just which party is going to allow them to thrive further.
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Old 08-03-2021, 11:49 AM
 
Location: Embarrassing, WA
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I don't know if the parties flipped as such, but they've certainly been moving. I just wonder if the CEO's actually care who runs the nation as long as their profit margins stay strong. I suspect a lot of them lobby both parties and their political affiliation is actually pretty shallow. It's just which party is going to allow them to thrive further.
Of course not, they'll support whoever feathers their nest. With many having switched to Dem, it tells you who they are really working for and I think this has escaped many a democrat who think they still support the working man and middle class families. The truth is, they'd sell the whole country to foreign interests and sit next to them on their thrones if they could get away with it.
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Old 08-03-2021, 11:53 AM
 
Location: Philaburbia
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So, what is the motive for not extending the moratorium?
You'll have to ask the Supreme Court.

It's been a year. A moratorium was an appropriate response to a crisis. It was never meant to be permanent.
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Old 08-03-2021, 11:58 AM
 
Location: Sector 001
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The authoritarians that run most of the planet seem hell bent in triggering economic collapses and outright revolutions regardless. Why should people get free housing? Why are we paying so many people to do nothing? We have shortages everywhere. We need more people to build more housing. Put them to work.

No, they want to mask up and lock down the damn planet, triggering revolutions and goods shortages the world over. This system in it's current state, at least in the US, is insolvent. It's quickly reaching a point where it won't be worth saving, as all the worker bees decide enough is enough and walk away. The top/managers mismanage things while raking in ridiculous money for very little effort, and the bottom live off the government, leaving the middle overworked, underpaid, masked. The next 24 months will be interesting.

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/RRPONTSYD#0

Enjoy those 3% cost of living raises while inflation runs 10-15% per year.
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Old 08-03-2021, 12:00 PM
 
Location: Spring Hill, FL
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Of course not, they'll support whoever feathers their nest. With many having switched to Dem, it tells you who they are really working for and I think this has escaped many a democrat who think they still support the working man and middle class families. The truth is, they'd sell the whole country to foreign interests and sit next to them on their thrones if they could get away with it.
No one in congress represents the working man and working classes. You'd need to get corporations and corporate money out of congress as an initial step for them to change.
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