Posted by
Mick O. on Tuesday, June 24, 2008 12:11:51 AM
With liberalism running wild, it's hard to imagine the United States lasting much longer. Judges are making policy decisions they were never supposed to be able to make. The founders would have never imagined them making such landmark decisions. I read somewhere that the judiciary was almost an afterthought by the writers of the Constitution. Perhaps they should have spent a little more time trying to imagine ways to keep them in check. Instead we now have 9 people ruling against the will of the people like the King did when the colonists broke away from England.
In a country that was founded on religious freedom, it is hard to believe that every religion is welcome except Christianity. A couple in Florida were fired from their apartment managers jobs and evicted from their home after having displayed a stainglass art piece with a short bible verse on it. Wonder what would have happened if the verse had been from the Koran? With political correctness running rampant, I am pretty sure they would have been left alone.
Wealth transfers in the form of welfare were never imagined by the founders, and would have been quickly dispatched had anyone tried to suggest it back when the country began. The idea of private ownership of personal property was very dear to them which is why only property owners were originally allowed to vote. San Francisco is the perfect example of what they were out to prohibit. Today renters outnumber landlords and therefore is one of the places with the most onerous restrictions on rent control. If you want your apartment back tenants are usually paid $10,000 or more to vacate... and this is considered reasonable when rent control is involved.
California is also a BLUE state where tenants have more rights than the landlord. Because we are a compassionate state and people are not to blame for their unfortunate circumstances, landlords can not just kick people out of their homes if they don't pay rent and must go through a tedious process to get their property back. For example, a person I know had a section 8 tenant where HUD was paying their entire rent... for the first month, anyway. The tenant secured a job in the second month of tenancy and benefits were immediately cut back to less than half even though he didn't keep the job for more than 2 weeks. The tenant was injured on the job and ended up in the hospital. He did not pay his portion of the rent for 2 months despite promises to get it together. In the third month, he ended up in jail so the landlord was forced to start eviction. For about $600 my friend spent another month trying to get the tenant and his girlfriend (who decided to squat until she could be legally removed) out, even offering them $500 at one point if they would vacate by 5PM on a Sunday evening. They didn't. At the time of this writing she's still in the unit, eviction had been served and 7 days from now we will know if they responded to the complaint. If they do not, then it will be another week and a half before Sheriffs show up to escort them out. If they do, it could be another month with a court case in between. Changing the locks would have been easier, but is illegal in California! As a result, my friend is out 3 1/2 months (at best) rent and will be responsible for any repairs and cleanup that these low life scumbag renters (but I have no opinion) leave behind. To add insult to injury, if they move out and leave any furniture, the landlord has to store it at his own expense. Of course, he can sue for damages, but these people have nothing to begin with, so he can't get blood out of a turnip.
But let's go back. These people are getting public assistance to live their deviant lifestyle. It is supported because they are drug addicted and can not get jobs. So our compassionate society had decided that you and I who work should fork over money to help them support themselves just "because we can afford it". Is that fair? So in most cases, public assistance is a transfer of money from people who earn it to people who provide NO benefits to society. Unfortunately, we now have mob rule in this country. Because majority rules, we have a group of elite polititicans, mostly Democrat, voting on our behalf to take our money and give it to those that contribute nothing. It's pretty sick, and a sign of the end times.
I hate to sound the death knell, but US Citizens need to take the country back to a place where the founders originally intended or we are all screwed. They are going to have to take on the judges to get it done. In California, the circuit courts constantly overturn laws voted on and passed in elections. Illegal aliens were the beneficiaries of a horrible ruling where voters chose to deny benefits to anyone who is not a US citizen, and the judges decided that was unconstitutional! Personally, we are making plans to relocate to a warm Latin American country that is new and has very few laws to curtail individual freedoms. It will take them about 200 years to get to where the US is, but we won't be around to see it. The only hope this country has is that a new breed of patriots take over and educate people about what is really going on in politics.
Finally, the lawmakers must be made to be accountable for the laws they pass. Right now, in most cases, I've been told they are passing laws from which they are immune. If it's good for us, shouldn't it be good enough for them?