Squatter’s rights. Liberating foreclosed homes from those who own them.
This is quite the plan for home ownership the left has given us: keep interest rates artificially low, require banks to give loans to those who can’t pay them back, put in place economic plans that destroy the economy and lead to large scale job loss, crash the housing market, destroy the middle class, evict people from the homes, then allow your army of parasites to move into to the vacant husks of someone else’s dreams!
Voila! Instant communism!
Yes we can!
(h/t geoffB)
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update: A sympathetic argument for the logic of an Occupy Foreclosure movement, from the always interesting Matthias Shapiro.
My reply? Make sure you’ve identified the right target. Otherwise, logic or no, you’re punishing people who don’t deserve to be punished to justify your own political ends.
That’s selfish. And it’s just another iteration of what we’ve come to expect from the scattershot “occupy” movement, whose public emotionalism is being fetishized by the liberal media as some sort of intellectually-sustainable protest. When what it really is is a cynical move to keep the “occupy” protest troops out of the parks and out of the cold so that they can plan wait out for their spring and summer offensive.
Because those pulling the strings are ideologically attached to this Administration, we should look at every move made by occupy organizers through a lens that focuses on what their long term agenda is. Everything else is merely political street theater.
Trainspotting isn’t far behind. Choose squalor.
tea party budget
This made me laugh:
Yeah, I’m sure the occupiers will move into a house with power, water and sewer shut off, and keep it like a show home. Like they did the park!
More likely, in a week it’ll look like a crack house, neighborhood property values will drop, and crime will skyrocket.
On the upside Lee, with the power off, presumably there’ll be fewer electrocutions when they strip the copper out the walls for resale, and with no water, less chance of flooding.
“and with no water, less chance of flooding.”
Indeed. Well, except for the overflowing toilets…
In the Spring/Summer of 2005 my wife and I were looking to move to a house which better fit with her disability. Because of what we needed, single story, open floorplan, immediate occupancy and some other things, many of the places we looked at were foreclosures.
People who are being forced to leave have a tendency to trash the places in various ways. Many were not really habitable without extensive work. We ended up buying one that had the least damage of any we had seen.
It is a given that an unoccupied place can have problems occur that if someone was there they would notice and take action to limit the damage. That assumes that they care enough to do so.
The whole of this “Occupy” movement has not shown any tendency to improve the surroundings that they have squatted in. They have left things much worse than when they came. If they take over foreclosed homes I don’t expect that things will go any better. Also who is going to pay to get the utilities turned on and pay the monthly bills? SEIU?
Most likely these people will strip out everything that can be fenced from the homes. Electrical wiring and copper pipe especially and leave a shell that is best torn down by after Hazmat checked it out so it won’t have to be taken away as toxic waste.
Don’t forget the lice/scabies/TB. Coming to your neighbourhood.
I think the copper would be safe from the Owies. It’s a job to strip it from the walls…
“If we could just the the locusts to descend on the right kind of fields, maybe they wouldn’t be so destructive!”
The Daily Show reporter flays the OWS class divisions.
It’s really quite exquisite.
And the subject matter is quite inevitable. Turns out 15% of the occupiers are “hipster college students” who are doing all the planning and making all the decisions—inside the lobby of Deutchbank, no less—while the rest of them just sit around and do whatever it is they’re doing.
I thought it would take them longer for the pigs to occupy the farmer’s house and walk on two legs.
I thought wrong.
Interns for the available “Ruling Class” positions.
having filthy dirty socialist pond-scum cavorting about in houses their loser asses can’t afford while real Americans pay rent and mortgages is NOT good optics Mr. Shapiro
Good optics if they keep the houses clean & leave when they are sold.
And how, exactly, would a house with a bunch of OWS squatters living in it ever be ‘sold’?
I’ve only ever been on the buying end of a house sale, but I’d imagine it’s irritating enough for all involved to sell a house — what with the “not being around so the real estate lady can show it to potential buyers” and all — when you’re the owner, and you want to sell it.
Since the last thing the squatters are going to want is for ‘their’ house to be sold out from under them, I’d imagine they’d do everything possible to prevent the sale. Maybe go take a dump in the buyer’s car while they’re looking at the house or something; they’re good at that sort of thing.