“Mr. Weidner, I got this mail telling me to fill out the form for a foreclosure review.…should i do it?”
To which I initially replied….
“Sure, if you want to waste your time because nothing will come of it.”
But then I was approached and was encouraged that I should encourage consumers to support such things so I wrote several posts….
“Fill out the forms! Let the government help you!”
But as I said, it felt rather like an abused spouse returning for a few more punches to the face. And then on New Years, the reports came that if you did waste time filling out those little forms, you were in fact completely wasting your time because the banks were shutting down the whole investigation.
Just how does that make you feel, knowing that whatever time you spent was completely wasted..your complaint flushed down the toilet? Well, you ain’t even touched the iceberg.
But keep in mind who you’re dealing with here….as a reader from Naked Capitalism wrote:
The two parties, our whole political class, are not stupid or incompetent. They are not good people making mistakes. Nor are they psychopaths making bad decisions. Each of these rationales in some way contains the idea that they are not wholly and completely responsible for their acts. While each of these explanations holds a certain attraction, none of them are true. The truth is a lot simpler. They are criminals acting as criminals. It doesn’t matter what they think. It doesn’t matter what they believe.
Who cares if they equate their good with the general good, and believe the more they take for themselves, the more the general good is served? Would we accept this argument from a car thief, a burglar, or a bank robber? No. So why should we accept it from our political class?
We need to be as serious and hard assed about this as they are. Everytime you see Obama, Boehner, Reid, McConnell, or Blankfein and Dimon, everytime you see any of our political classes remember that they murder more Americans in a year than a dozen bin Ladens did in a lifetime. They steal more in a year than a million Dillingers. They create more destruction than a hundred natural disasters. More pain and suffering than a major epidemic. They are the banality of evil made manifest. We must stop being distracted by that banality and look at them up close and in the face in all their evil and ugliness.
They mean with every atom of their being to loot us to the last drop and beyond if they can. To resist them, we must be as clear eyed and steadfast as they are to destroy us. We must put aside comforting but false stereotypes. We should keep ever present in our mind the evil that they are and the evil that they do. We can not afford to let that image slip an instant from our view, because when we do, they win. They succeed in making their evil appear less, or even no evil at all, and so easier to sell and continue.
