[Peace] Fwd: to someone who doesn't understand law or has never read the Section 8 contract...

[Stuart Levy]

On Fri, Oct 13, 2006 at 03:40:21PM -0500, Nancy Dietrich wrote:
> 
> Actually, a better analogy would be:
> A man walks into a grocery store & wants to write a check.  The cashier
> asks him where he got the money to put into his checking account.  The
> customer says he received a student loan check for living expenses which
> he deposited into his checking account.  The cashier will not accept the
> check because he cannot sue the government if the customer's check
> bounces.  
> 
> Sound ridiculous?  Should grocery stores be allowed to not accept checks
> because they cannot sue the place that the customer received his money
> from if the check bounces?  Of course it's ridiculous---the person who
> wrote the bad check should be held accountable, not the place from where
> he received the money.  But this is what is being suggested by the email
> below.
> 
> Nancy Dietrich-Rybicki

That analogy's an excellent one.  And it naturally includes another
important way Section 8 works (if I understand it correctly): 
landlords are *not* required to accept Section 8-supported tenants;
they choose whether to participate in the program or not,
just as shopowners can choose whether or not to accept checks.

But if they do agree in general to accept Section-8 monies -- or checks --
at all, they then shouldn't discriminate based on where the money had come from.

   Stuart Levy

> > 
> > ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> > From: Ken Pirok <kenpirok at gmail.com>
> > Date: Oct 9, 2006 6:36 PM
> > Subject: to someone who doesn't understand law or has never read the
> > Section 8 contract...
> > To: briandolinar at gmail.com
> > 
> > A man walks into a grocery store and picks up a gallon of milk.  He
> > brings it the the cashier and asks if the store accepts checks.  The
> > cashier responds that they do.  The man then pulls out a ten-page
> > contract and tells the cashier that he must sign the document before
> > he'll write the check.  He further explains that the document takes
> > away many of the rights of collection that the store would have if 
> > the
> > check is bad.  Sound ridiculous?  Should the cashier or be forced by
> > law to sign the document?  Of course it's ridiculous, and of course
> > the cashier shouldn't have to sign the document.  Section 8 is no
> > different.
> > 
> > I am a Democrat, in case you didn't notice-albeit a centrist or a
> > moderate.  From what I can see from your e-mail, it is you who is 
> > the
> > extremist.
> > 
> > Ken Pirok
> 
> 
> > ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> > From: Ken Pirok <kenpirok at gmail.com>
> > Date: Oct 9, 2006 6:36 PM
> > Subject: to someone who doesn't understand law or has never read the
> > Section 8 contract...
> > To: briandolinar at gmail.com
> > 
> > A man walks into a grocery store and picks up a gallon of milk.  He
> > brings it the the cashier and asks if the store accepts checks.  The
> > cashier responds that they do.  The man then pulls out a ten-page
> > contract and tells the cashier that he must sign the document before
> > he'll write the check.  He further explains that the document takes
> > away many of the rights of collection that the store would have if 
> > the
> > check is bad.  Sound ridiculous?  Should the cashier or be forced by
> > law to sign the document?  Of course it's ridiculous, and of course
> > the cashier shouldn't have to sign the document.  Section 8 is no
> > different.
> > 
> > I am a Democrat, in case you didn't notice-albeit a centrist or a
> > moderate.  From what I can see from your e-mail, it is you who is 
> > the
> > extremist.
> > 
> > Ken Pirok
> > 
> > -- 
> > Brian Dolinar, Ph.D.
> > 303 W. Locust St.
> > Urbana, IL 61801
> > briandolinar at gmail.com
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