night_son
Diamond Member
Link to the news article:
Federal judge in Texas strikes down U.S. COVID-19 eviction moratorium
From the news article:
"(Reuters) - A federal judge in Texas on Thursday ruled unconstitutional a national moratorium the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has instituted for most residential evictions to help curb the spread of the coronavirus.
Siding with a group of landlords and property owners challenging the evictions freeze, U.S. District Judge J. Campbell Barker in Tyler, Texas, ruled the CDC exceeded its authority under the interstate commerce clause of the U.S. Constitution."
Bonus video about the article:
OP commentary:
Perhaps John Steinbeck's seminal novel about the Great Depression is poised to become a non-fiction survival handbook for our times. The Grapes of Wrath, anyone? Buckle up Buttercups . . .
I am of a split mind on this subject. On one hand my family—generationally—has prided itself on the self-sufficiency of its adult men and women, no more so than in times of great upheaval. During the Great Depression my great grandfather, who owned several hundred acres of northern Baltimore County field and forest, planted his own gardens, raised his own livestock and worked whatever odd jobs he could find, all in order to provide for his family. He even bartered with neighbors—labor and goods for food and cash. His wife, my great grandmother, would hop a train every morning and ride it to a small Pennsylvania town to work in a then newly opened plastics injection molding factory. They survived and even thrived during the Great Depression only because they were willing to put forth an endless effort backed by a collective indominable will to succeed. My great grandfather taught himself to repair shoes, cut hair, forge tools and make ax and pick handles. Amazing ingenuity.
In light of the above, and on the other hand, I do feel pity for those Americans who lost their livelihoods to COVID restrictions, but landlords have to feed their families as well, no?
Federal judge in Texas strikes down U.S. COVID-19 eviction moratorium
From the news article:
"(Reuters) - A federal judge in Texas on Thursday ruled unconstitutional a national moratorium the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has instituted for most residential evictions to help curb the spread of the coronavirus.
Siding with a group of landlords and property owners challenging the evictions freeze, U.S. District Judge J. Campbell Barker in Tyler, Texas, ruled the CDC exceeded its authority under the interstate commerce clause of the U.S. Constitution."
Bonus video about the article:
OP commentary:
Perhaps John Steinbeck's seminal novel about the Great Depression is poised to become a non-fiction survival handbook for our times. The Grapes of Wrath, anyone? Buckle up Buttercups . . .
I am of a split mind on this subject. On one hand my family—generationally—has prided itself on the self-sufficiency of its adult men and women, no more so than in times of great upheaval. During the Great Depression my great grandfather, who owned several hundred acres of northern Baltimore County field and forest, planted his own gardens, raised his own livestock and worked whatever odd jobs he could find, all in order to provide for his family. He even bartered with neighbors—labor and goods for food and cash. His wife, my great grandmother, would hop a train every morning and ride it to a small Pennsylvania town to work in a then newly opened plastics injection molding factory. They survived and even thrived during the Great Depression only because they were willing to put forth an endless effort backed by a collective indominable will to succeed. My great grandfather taught himself to repair shoes, cut hair, forge tools and make ax and pick handles. Amazing ingenuity.
In light of the above, and on the other hand, I do feel pity for those Americans who lost their livelihoods to COVID restrictions, but landlords have to feed their families as well, no?
