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Homeownership: Good for You, Better for Me
In the market-driven economy of today, quid-pro-quo is often (if not entirely) the modus operandi. Unfortunately, not all transactions are fair in that the “benefit” one party receives is in fact harmful to them either immediately or over time. In drafting and eventually passing the Community Reinvestment Act of 1977, the United States Congress set the American people on the fast-track to homeownership by strong-arming banks into offering home mortgages to minorities and low-income groups. Questions of legitimacy, a false sense of security and a dubious backhanded attempt at further controlling the American people come into question in addition to whether or not homeownership is a ‘right.’ Continue reading
Rethinking Political Ideologies
Suppose that Legal Philosophy was ordered as a Left-Right Jurisprudence spectrum rather than by group—Natural Law, Legal Positivism, Legal Realism, and Critical Legal Studies (CLS). Suppose that Theology was ordered as a Left-Right Religion spectrum rather than by denomination—Christianity, Islam, Judaism, Bahá’í, Hinduism, Buddhism, Sikhism, etc. Suppose that the Natural Sciences were ordered as a Left-Right Science spectrum rather than by field—Chemistry, Physics, Biology, Astronomy, and Geoscience. This is the current state of Politics. One should feel a knee-jerk reaction seeing a complex and intellectually rich system of thought reduced to an overly simplistic uni-axis or multi-axis model that is ultimately inaccurate, but more importantly breeds tribal politics.1 Continue reading