[Homestead] Cities View Homesteads as a Source of Income

Lynda lurine at com-pair.net
Mon Jul 26 11:45:00 EDT 2010


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From: "Leslie" <cayadopi at yahoo.com>
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Sent: Monday, July 26, 2010 8:31 AM
Subject: Re: [Homestead] Cities View Homesteads as a Source of Income


> Unemployment no-mans' land.......... YEP. They have passed extending, but 
> few
> will qualify.
>
>
> Meanwhile, government keeps right on doing the things that will worsen 
> things.
> Bernanke testified the other day that the current level of debt is 
> unsustainable
> and that the effects will be disasterous. Same thing last year, and same 
> thing
> Paulson said the year before. Nobody is listening, and nobody is asking 
> what
> exactly does disasterous mean (in plain english).
>
>
>
>
> ________________________________
> From: EarthNSky <erthnsky at gmail.com>
> To: homestead at lists.ibiblio.org
> Sent: Mon, July 26, 2010 10:43:07 AM
> Subject: Re: [Homestead] Cities View Homesteads as a Source of Income
>
> Interesting. Now there's a sign that the economy is on the mend <sarcasm>. 
> Is
> this supposed to be redistribution of wealth, or redistribution of debt? 
> Just
> how do they determine who will win this housing lotto? Does the homeless 
> vet who
> walks the streets deserve it more than the divorced mother of three living 
> out
> of her car? Or, will the winner be the executive who lost his McMansion to
> foreclosure in 2008? Who determines who gets shelter, and how? With no 
> jobs,
> how will the winners be able to pay the taxes, or mow the lawns?
>
> Can you tell that I've become even more disillusioned with government? I 
> lost
> my job last month and applied for unemployment-supposed to be a safety 
> net,
> right? My old boss and others(based on my income mostly) told me that I 
> should
> be able to get the maximum, which in GA is $350/wk gross. Firstly, if you
> haven't been employed for at least 15 months(5 quarters), all bets are 
> off. If
> you miss that by 3 days, tough luck, no cigar, it translates to less 
> money. You
> can always appeal decisions, but it is pretty useless. So I did not get 
> the
> maximum. To add insult to injury, I also missed getting the stimulus money 
> (an
> additional $25/wk) by 10 days-I had to have filed a claim by the end of 
> May. I
> simply fell into unemployment no-man's land. People say, oh don't worry, 
> the
> Government is passing new legislation to help out with unemployment, 
> putting
> more money into the system...and yeah, the bill passed, and yeah you 
> guessed it,
> it applies only to those who have qualified for the maximum and then 
> received
> the payment for the maximum of 26 weeks, but who are no longer getting the
> benefit. Since I qualified for less than the maximum and only for 14 
> weeks, the
> new stuff doesn't apply to me. What it boils down to is that you had to 
> have
> been working from at least Sept of 2008 through Dec of 2009(15 months), 
> received
> unemployment from Jan 2010 to June 2010(26 weeks) in order to qualify for 
> the
> additional monies. That is a huge hoop to jump through, and I'd bet that 
> 98% of
> people drawing unemployment in this state won't qualify. So where does all 
> of
> that money really go?? But I digress...
>
> I guess my point is that if you read the news articles about unemployment 
> and
> the additional monies directed to help stimulate the economy(and I really 
> don't
> see how an additional $25 a week stimulates the economy, but that is 
> another
> matter) everything sounds so wonderful, so rosy, so optimistic. It sounds 
> so
> fiscally great to turn city land-ball fields into housing plots (first cut 
> PE
> out of the school curriculum, then cut it from the city budget, then 
> eliminate
> it altogether and wonder why people are FAT!), but looking closer, I'm 
> hoping
> that people will see all the pitfalls this creates. It may look great on 
> paper,
> but it will not help bring in tax money(those who win the housing lotto 
> won't be
> able to pay) and it won't help those who are truly in need. Those people, 
> the
> ones who play honestly and by the rules, will get screwed and fall into 
> no-man's
> land. In the past, those with 'drive' were the ones who won the 
> housing/land
> lottos, making do with less amenities to settle the outlands. Now, those 
> with
> zero drive will win the housing/land lotto, and complain that the 
> government
> won't provide them with services like libraries, public safety, and water 
> to
> make their lawns green.
>
> The irony of this, to me, is the short sightedness of city planners or 
> whoever
> came up with this scheme. Most undeveloped municipal land is undeveloped 
> or
> underdeveloped for a reason. Ball fields and parks are commonly 
> constructed on
> flood plains or even built upon old landfills. Placing houses on this 
> ground is
> asking for trouble down the road. If they line their coffers, they will 
> soon be
> paying the money back to the new homeowners, who will bring suit to the 
> city
> after things go bad.
>
>
>
> Gene GeRue wrote:
>> Don't panic. It is not yet another insidious way for urban bureaucrats to
>>fleece we noble country folk. But for sure this is a definition I had 
>>never
>>considered.
>>
>> From:
>> http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/26/us/26revenue.html?_r=1&hp
>>
>> Beatrice was a starting point for the Homestead Act of 1862, the federal 
>> law
>>that handed land to pioneering farmers. Back then, the goal was to settle 
>>the
>>West. The goal of Beatrice’s “Homestead Act of 2010,” is, in part, to 
>>replenish
>>city coffers.
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