HALT RENT AT ONCE

HALT RENT AT ONCE

With COVID19 out there wrecking shit left and right, there has been a Change.org petition to hault rent, mortgage and utility bills. Here's the wording;

With the onset of COVID-19 in the United States, many thousands of workers have become temporarily displaced due to closures relating to the now global pandemic. A lot of workers who have been affected are gig workers and workers who rely on tips to earn an income. Nightclubs, theaters, bars, restaurants, and other destination-type venues are being hit the hardest right now, and most of us are wondering how we are going to pay rent, as we see the government passing legislation to bail out industries with our tax dollars. We need some assistance too!

I am proposing that the state of California institutes a hold on all rent and mortgage payments, payments for utilities, and put a moratorium on evictions until the threat of COVID-19 has been eradicated. It is simply unAmerican for us to live in fear of not being able to pay rent and to be evicted during a global pandemic that has been exacerbated by the inaction of our leaders in a country where we need to create gofundmes to subsidize our medical expenses.

Look, while I'm all for helping one another, this seems pretty broad and... well, not really based on reality. 

As both a renter and a landlord, I paid rent the other day to my landlord. I paid that rent in part with the rent that I got from my tenant on the property I own. If there was a solid hold on rent owed to your landlord, then... well, you can see that we're not all corporations and banks. 

Banks, as well, have been hit hard, especially with the lack of confidence in the markets, they need that money from their mortgage owners paying for them. This is the fault of capitalism. We have been pushed to the edge in the working class and the gig economy was basically that last thread holding folks away from the edge of complete poverty.

We knew this. We kept on saying this. A lot of small businesses will go under because of this. And yeah, it sucks you can't make rent because the economy just took a huge fall. The line about the gofundme's for medical help is comical. I mean, comical in the sense that go fund me's have been the go-to answer in our health care system for so many under employeed and those just barely making it.

It just goes to show that universal healthcare is a must and needs to happen. Which is why voting for Biden, in the short term, is the right thing, but not really doing much for progression since it puts us still on the corporate whipping boy status. Not as bad as how much Trump is corporations over people, but ya know, it's still the same sort of shit.

Anyhow, back to not paying rent.... I mean, we need to just take a moment and realize that the economy is fucked right now because commerce is on hold.  This is a key example about "trickle down economy"   Rich people still are hoarding the money, just like your average person is hoarding toilet paper. But they're not spending it. In fact, they're pulling it out of the stock market and putting it under a pillow. Flat out, this is exactly what is happening and because the rich aren't going out paying the wait staff, the parking attendants, the security guards...  so thus, there's no circulation of the currency.

You can't just say "well then, I guess we shouldn't be forced to pay rent."  Because that rent is someone else's life line at surviving in the given situation. Without that money, things don't move for them. Yeah, you can probably have the utilities services not get their bills, but how the fuck do you think they pay their employees? It's easier for the city to cut them some sort of check for the situation, but again, money needs to change hands from the top in order for the bottom to be able to survive. And ultimately that's what the problem with capitalism.

So the next time you talk shit about socialism, realize that there's just the same level of fucking problems when it comes to this consumerism capitalistic society. It is funny that when the chips fall and society is about the crumble, everyone is a fucking fan  of socialism despite 60 years of the U.S. talking shit about it.  This change petition is meaningless. Stop acting for a moratorium on your daily bills being due. The best that can happen is that you don't get your stuff turned off, but that just means that you're now behind the eight ball in the future in terms of your bills Because one way or another, they're going to get their money some how. 

So do you want to just dig that hole deeper? We're all financially insecure and putting your bills on hold doesn't help that. Fucking with the system and creating more class equality is the only way to right this ship because it's clear we're sinking as a whole. Those who are on the edge of poverty are just going to fall in further, those middle class will just be the next low income class.

This is pretty bleak, I know. It's tough times and being negative on this isn't the best, but we need to have some reality slapped into us. This is not the way. Breaking the chains. demanding far more income inequality is the only way. You being pissed some hoarding of toilet paper happens to completely gloss over that 1% is hoarding the majority of the wealth is the only way we change this shit.