When what to my wandering eyes should appear, but this post over at Silver Blue’s. Seems that he has a friend, Neil, who sent the article on how the suffering of Hurricane Katrina victims isn’t enough.
I’m all for changes to laws when they do good. Above all, they should do no harm. I’m sure that then Congress, in it’s frickin’ finite wisdom, decided to change the Code, they were acting on the pay of large credit corporations who have enabled Americans to over extend themselves to the point of not even owning the blood that may be gushing out of their slit wrists from high interest rates, foreclosures, and the like. Individuals that have medical emergencies (or cancer treatments, or the like) are similarly fucked. After all, businesses can’t continue to turn high profits if people can declare bankruptcy and keep their house, or a car, or some shadow of a life.
But now that Katrina has caused death, havoc, destruction, devastation, (plague, locusts and dark of night remain to be experienced), one of the (perhaps) unintentional side effects is to ram the shaft in those victims who have lost the most, in most cases, everything. By the time the Code changes on October 17, those who have been displaced, disowned, disenfranchised, disenchanted, and disheartened will also find despair. Sorry victims, but you’re twice fucked. And don’t think we’re going to use any lube. Or kiss you afterward. Obviously you brought this destruction on yourself by not supporting Supreme Comrade Bush not planning far enough in advance to have an equal amount set aside to pay off everything that you’ve lost. Better yet, they’re going to be told “It’s your own damn fault for owing for anything in the first place.”
May someone with an iron boot kick the shit out of our legislators until they finally see why “absolute power corrupts absolutely.” Quit listening to big business and their donations, and try to frickin’ remember what it was like to be a regular citizen…. one who now has nothing to go back to — no job, no house, in some cases, no family; then look and try to figure out why the suicide rate is steadily increasing two, four, eight months after the reconstruction begins. Nothing from nothing leaves nothing. These people are starting with zero and really appear to have nothing to lose — except what the government will be taking from them in punishment via the Bankruptcy Code.
I hope they find it damn hard to sleep at night.
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