Imagine that you were a poor farmer, and you lived on your family's property and grew all your own food.
You were poor because, when there is more than enough food, food sales are rather poor.
But, you grow all your own food, and own your house, so you don't need much money.
Except for the extortion agents of the govern-cement.
And, if you don't find a way to pay them, they will take their land back, and then you will be broke AND without food.
So, we started with a poor farmer that provided for themselves.
And then, in their great wisdom, the govern-cement decided it was better to throw them off their property, because, if they didn't, then other people would stop paying their extortion. (that's logical, right?)
So, we end with a person who now needs welfare to survive.
If anyone in govern-cement was actually keeping the books, they would notice that they lost revenue, and gained expenses. (But, in the short term, they gain revenue from the land auction.) Overall, a compounding negative. The road to financial destruction.
Land auctions are still done... and held on the steps of some govern-cement office.
This is how slow the govern-cement moves. Molasses on a cold day moves faster.
What about an air conditioned room, where you can hear the bids, see what's being offered and be protected from wind and rain? Nah, that's too hard and too modern for govern-cements.
But, the real thing, is that no one pays cash for a house these days.
Everyone has to take out a mortgage to afford a house today.
So, what is supposed to be something where everyone can bid, and no one is left out, is instead only for people who have enough cash laying around to buy an entire house.
(And we mean cash, today, not tomorrow. You have to pay for house you just bid on, now. You can't "call the bank" and get the papers worked out.)
Is this govern-cements just not keeping up with the times or is it banksters who work with mayors to keep the good thing they got going together?
And the worst piece is all of this drug and alcohol usage is to numb the pain of not being a useful person, of not being able to provide for yourself.
What these people really need is a piece of property to call their own so that they can provide for themselves.
They do not need govern-cement hand-outs. They want to have a say in their future.
So, the triple whammy of the FED, BLM and property taxes are destroying people's lives and pushing everyone off the land.
The FED, with their fractional reserve money printing (or inflation) driving up house prices.
The BLM, locking up all the land away from personal use.
And property taxes slowly draining the equity from every property until nothing is left.
If i was to design a system to destroy the hearts and bodies of men, i would be hard pressed to design a better system.