Posted by
Laura L. Hollis, JD on Friday, March 26, 2010 2:01:12 PM
This time, from people who are paying their mortgages! How dare they protest paying for the mortgages of those who have not! How dare they value responsibility more than profligacy!
For that matter, how dare the evil, nasty, slimy, greedy banks that loaned the money (other people's money) insist that it be repaid!
Indeed, why should anyone be repaid for anything? Why should anyone be asked to repay anything? How corporatist! How ridiculously market-oriented! How slanted in favor of those who have, and against those who have not! If you have enough to lend, then you have more than you need. It is unfair to ask for it back!
But why not go all the way? If it is unfair to expect people to repay anything, then why is it fair to expect people to pay for anything? If health care is a "right," why isn't food? Water? Transportation? A California king bed? Pottery Barn drapes? Really good coffee?
In fact, if it were not for this absurd need to "pay" for things which should be our rights by virtue of having a pulse, we wouldn't need to go begging for "jobs." How degrading! How humiliating!
No one should have to work. We would not need to "spread the wealth" if there were no "wealth" to be "spread."
"Responsibility," "repayment," "payment," "employment" - these are all just buzzwords that right-wing haters hide behind! They're really just code for racist, sexist, ageist, classist, socio-economicist HATE.
Ban wealth! Ban contracts! Ban employment! Ban the hate!