Almost like an old movie
Oct. 10th, 2008 09:14 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
fbhjrAlmost like an old movie
Bankers evicting innocent people. Local sheriff refuses to help…
But, it’s going on in Chicago, not some small town like in the movies
One of the folks where I work, who I am almost totally out of sync with politically, said “This is the end of the rule of law. It is just like the French revolution. Next the guillotines will be brought out of storage.”
To some extent, I agree with him on this one. I don’t like the idea of law enforcement getting to choose what laws they enforce and what laws they don’t. If someone owed me a lot of money, the court said I can get it from them, but the police wouldn’t help me, I’d be pretty mad about it.
But, at least in the story, it sounds like justice is on the side of the sheriff on this one. I’ve paid rent at my apartment building for 15 years. It’s possible, if unlikely, that the management of the place has squandered that money, borrowed more and squandered that as well. It could be the Worcester county sheriff is going to be knocking on our door. (As I said, I don’t think so. The complex hasn’t shown any signs of running out of money. And, they’re doing a lot of maintenance work on the place these days.) I’d be pretty mad if after loyally paying rent for 15 years I was given the heave ho because of someone else’s bad behavior.
But, I’m worried on a systemic level.
This whole bail out thing is set up to work from the top down. I really think it needs to come from the bottom up.
I don’t care if big banks feel secure.
I do care if people who did nothing wrong are kicked out into the cold.
I don’t think I’m alone in that.
But this whole “if the banks are secure they’ll loan money again and everything will start working again” doesn’t really seem to address the issues.
If banks start loaning money again, how do those people keep their homes? The landlord borrows more?
Who is being helped with that?
I find myself spending a lot of time at the National Archives web site.
We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.
I don't think anyone is getting the guillotines out of storage. But justice & domestic tranquility don't seem to be very common these days...
Bankers evicting innocent people. Local sheriff refuses to help…
But, it’s going on in Chicago, not some small town like in the movies
One of the folks where I work, who I am almost totally out of sync with politically, said “This is the end of the rule of law. It is just like the French revolution. Next the guillotines will be brought out of storage.”
To some extent, I agree with him on this one. I don’t like the idea of law enforcement getting to choose what laws they enforce and what laws they don’t. If someone owed me a lot of money, the court said I can get it from them, but the police wouldn’t help me, I’d be pretty mad about it.
But, at least in the story, it sounds like justice is on the side of the sheriff on this one. I’ve paid rent at my apartment building for 15 years. It’s possible, if unlikely, that the management of the place has squandered that money, borrowed more and squandered that as well. It could be the Worcester county sheriff is going to be knocking on our door. (As I said, I don’t think so. The complex hasn’t shown any signs of running out of money. And, they’re doing a lot of maintenance work on the place these days.) I’d be pretty mad if after loyally paying rent for 15 years I was given the heave ho because of someone else’s bad behavior.
But, I’m worried on a systemic level.
This whole bail out thing is set up to work from the top down. I really think it needs to come from the bottom up.
I don’t care if big banks feel secure.
I do care if people who did nothing wrong are kicked out into the cold.
I don’t think I’m alone in that.
But this whole “if the banks are secure they’ll loan money again and everything will start working again” doesn’t really seem to address the issues.
If banks start loaning money again, how do those people keep their homes? The landlord borrows more?
Who is being helped with that?
I find myself spending a lot of time at the National Archives web site.
We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.
I don't think anyone is getting the guillotines out of storage. But justice & domestic tranquility don't seem to be very common these days...
