No offense to any Delaware FReepers, but hoarding (mental illness) and living in Delaware might have some connection, right?
Because when the SHTF and your basement is stocked full of food, water, medicines and ammo, will be easier for them to declare that you have a hoarding problem and intervene. For your own good, of course.
My first thoughts, as well. And how is “the state” going to decide who is or is not a hoarder? And what will the retraining be like?
You don’t get it.
If you have a task force, then you have to have information.
You don’t think you’re a hoarder, but I’ll bet the good little nazis they put in charge of this will want to know WHY you have TWO cans of chicken soup, and of a brand not approved of by central planning.
The rich are hoarding money that should be spread around more fairly. At least, that’s how Harry Hopkins used the term “hoarder”.
And NYC thinks it has a problem with Bloomberg.
PS - So they’ll go house to house with or without a warrant?
This is the camel’s nore under the tent.
What follows is the state setting up guidelines on what constitutes a “normal” amount of everything for the citizen to have.
Enforcement will be spotty, except when it comes to “hoarding” of guns, ammo, water, MREs .....
"Advisory panel" = devoted statists and their cronies
"stakeholders" = government entities and pro-statist front groups.
"offer input" = orchestrate into a concerted statist message.
Every socialist society has rationing. “Hoarding” is only an issue when there is rationing.
5% of the state's population?
Really, 45,000 out of 900,000 people
I don’t believe it.
It is none of the states business but it is a real psychological problem.
I have noticed on the show “Pickers” which I don’t particularly like, that many people so old they only have a year or two left, will have huge amounts of odds and ends stored where they will never be used, yet they hang onto them like they will use them in the afterlife.
Guess who gets to define hoarding...
I hoard, so what? But nothing like some folks, my wife does too. Paperback books. And jewelry.. And .. Uhhh. Stuff.
Do we need GUbamint intervention? Not yet.. But it’s nice to know Big Bro is always thinking about us,, and worming its way further into your domain as familia.
Animal Welfare Officers are part of the task force?
Are they accusing dogs and cats of hoarding? Will they be sent to animal psychiatrists for retraining?
A: Who determines who’s actually hoarding?
B: How do they know that 45,000 people are hoarding?
C: What’s their reason for “helping” with this “problem”?
D: Who have they enlisted to “squeal” on hoarders?
E: Don’t they have anything else to do?
Preppers are first on THIS list.
Ha! In Oakland, California we have burglars to deal with this ;-)