A Rental Moratorium — and Now We Have to Clean up the Mess
Same thing for Guantanamo Bay, Joe Biden and, watch out — student loan forgiveness
Dr. Sema K. Sgaier and Aaron Dibner-Dunlap paint a vivid picture with lots of numbers of where we are with rental moratorium ending — “How Many People Are at Risk of Losing Their Homes in Your Neighborhood?” the New York Times July 28, 2021.
There is always hell to pay when we dive into the here and now, forgetting past lessons and having no apparent interest in future consequences.
Guantanamo Bay. What an example. It’s our spot on the island of Cuba that sports the most expensive prison in the world — around $10 million per inmate year. In a spur of the moment we locked up some bad and misguided folk but without any real clue as to how this was going to play out. We are still struggling with a solution 20 years and around $7 billion later.
Joe Biden was raised from a political coffin in those few days of terror when a socialist curmudgeon named Bernie Sanders looked pretty for the Democratic Nominee for President. Again history and future were stripped from the deciding equation. The Democratic wigs immersed in the immediacy of events were unconcerned with Joe’s “mediocre” to put it kindly campaign — he had failed to nail a single…
