A Nation of Suckers and Slaves

From Brain-Terminal.com: In 21st century America, the federal government's solution to every financial problem seems the same: people who are responsible with money are forced to foot the bill for the reckless.

Bought a house you can't afford? No problem! Everyone else will bail you out. Made a bunch of risky loans to people who can't repay them? It's an honest mistake. Just stand in line for some TARP money, courtesy of the American taxpayer. Can't pay your credit card bill? It's OK. Congress just passed a law shifting more of the burden onto those who pay on time and in full.

People who would never think of stealing from their neighbors don't seem to mind using government for the same purpose. And what politician passes up an opportunity to buy votes using money earned by others?

Unfortunately, pure democracy can abide such things, as long as the number of people receiving the loot is greater than the number of people whose property gets looted. Our political leaders know that the electoral math works out-for now-even if the economic math does not.

Left unasked in all of this is an important question: is it moral for politicians to use the unparalleled power of the federal government to penalize certain people and reward others based purely on what's politically popular?

Isn't this why our country's founders recognized that the liberty of the individual is distinct from (and must be coupled with) democracy, so as to prevent a tyranny of the majority?

This depressing state of affairs inspired me to put together this one-minute video entitled "A Nation of Suckers and Slaves."

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[Yakko77]

My credit card debt is zero.

I bought a house I can afford (only 80K and less than 1000 sq ft).

I can afford my car payment too.

I cut back on spending to pay for my medical needs.

In other words, I pretty damn financially responsible.

And yes, that makes me...... a sucker.

[keith5000]

It's like a real-life Atlas Shrugged. (If you haven't read that classic book, do so now!)

[freakylocz14]

@Yakko77 I'm from California. I was expecting something that cheap to be in a Plains state.

[Yakko77]

@freakylocz14 Small "starter" houses can be found for that here in Nebraska. The same house would likely cost at least x2 that amount in California and such.

[freakylocz14]

@Yakko77 Where the hell does a house cost 80K?

[smellyfooty]

@Yakko77 this means you earn more than 20,000 a year. that's what that means....

[BigChiefFan]

Work your ass off for PAPER with fancy ink, while they take the gold. Wake up.

[BigChiefFan]

Work your ass off for PAPER with fancy ink, while they take the gold.

[vutEwa]

Yeah, well I'm no longer a sucker and soon no longer a slave. I've stayed out of debt but I'm not going to pay this debt they try to throw on me. No sir! I shall not pay that, it is not my debt!

[zliminator]

Oh shut up! You're hurting my ears! I don't want to hear this! La-la-la-la-la-la-la!

[SmokePropaganda]

today the supreme court overturned a 100 year old law prohibiting corporations from financing campaigns

Fascism: corporate control of government and media.

[canaan1967]

We are working not for government but for obscenely wealthy corporations who got bailed out by the govenment.