You mean like the MIC, Walmart, Depot, Loews, Target, Best Buy and the other Chinese box stores as well ?
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| -Signs, Portents, and the Weather- |
| The CDC Is America's New Landlord |
| 2020-09-05 |
| [Mises] This is astonishing, even by 2020 standards. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, operating under the US Department of Health and Human Services, has asserted jurisdiction over private residential leases nationwide. It intends to curtail evictions until at least the end of the year, and in fact its new directive threatens federal criminal penalties against landlords who ignore tenant "declarations" made using CDC forms. It is unclear, to put it mildly, exactly how this jurisdiction over private contracts and state/local courts flows even to Congress, much less an administrative agency acting on its own. One federal official justifies the bizarre and legally dubious action based on the CDC's broad charter to stop the spread of communicable diseases—a charter at which they've failed miserably with covid: Congress has delegated broad authority to HHS, the Surgeon General and CDC, to take reasonable efforts to combat the spread of communicable diseases, and frankly I think it makes sense for those authorities abroad because we don't know for any given situation or scenario what steps will be needed to stop the spread. I think, in this particular order, the CDC has made a very compelling case that it is quite problematic at this particular time. It's focused on this particular pandemic, which is obviously the uniquely powerful grasp in the nation's entire history in terms of the effect it's had that for a bunch of reasons in particular, that the home has been sort of the focal point of people social distancing and building, sort of a safe space themselves over the past few months, and also the fact that if people get kicked out, they may end up in overcrowded congregated living facilities or homeless shelters, and that is a potential recipe for a big spread of COVID-19. |
| Posted by:Clem |
| #12 #6,7 The governance model of Rollerball... |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2020-09-05 15:26 |
| #11 Zero interest rates work best when cash is illegal. You have to place your money in an institution and the institution will take a percentage out each month. |
| Posted by: Airandee 2020-09-05 15:13 |
| #10 Wanna bet the decision came from the orange man? |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2020-09-05 15:13 |
| #9 And, oh, no, FoMoCo and IBM...they had nothing to do with Nazi Germany. No, sir-ee. |
| Posted by: Clem 2020-09-05 12:58 |
| #8 ...really? |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2020-09-05 11:43 |
| #7 You mean like the MIC, Walmart, Depot, Loews, Target, Best Buy and the other Chinese box stores as well ? |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2020-09-05 11:06 |
| #6 Totally logical next step for the smelly little totalitarians who imposed / still impose the lockdown. This follows naturally from 5 months of suffocating small businesses (except when servicing Pelosi) and 3 months of handcuffing law enforcement (except when protecting Mayor BugEyes) so that the reactionary running dog petty bourgeoisie is brought to its knees. Vitiate private contracts and transfer authority to the State apparat. Next steps: Ban fracking and increase gas taxes to cut down on private mobility and commerce. Trace "contacts" and capture them in a national database run by the Democratic Party with help from their house oligarchs. Soon: organize industry into Fascist style "corporate" sectors managed by the Party. Requisition grain and other essentials from our contemporary kulaks and wipe them out once and for all |
| Posted by: Fester Panda8409 2020-09-05 10:55 |
| #5 /\ That's what I'm thinking as well Cesare. Beginning to look rather obvious. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2020-09-05 10:38 |
| #4 Well, Besoeker if they ever get their goal of a cash free society it will all be their money. |
| Posted by: Cesare 2020-09-05 10:21 |
| #3 /\ And it has never stopped! No Gold behind the paper. Now they want to do away with paper and replace it with electrons. Your credit is good here at the company store, we'll just have it deducted from your pay. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2020-09-05 08:30 |
| #2 For sure. BTW, Federal Reserve and national income tax both created in 1913. Once Woddy Wilson got us into WWI and the Fed buying government debt (instead of corporate debt), that was the ball game. |
| Posted by: Clem 2020-09-05 08:22 |
| #1 ...a charter at which they've failed miserably with covid: Just following in the step of the Fed which was established to put an end to the 'crashes' of the 19th Century. That would have been two Depressions and a several Recessions ago. Just another national agency unaccountable to the people, ruling by fiat. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2020-09-05 07:38 |