I have a different idea. What if there was a website with pictures, phone numbers, names, home addresses of everyone who worked for a debt collector? It could have links to laws regarding harassment and stalking and information on making bombs and such. I would have no thing to do with it of course. But wouldn't it be interesting?
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In the article I linked to, Barbara Ehrenreich says:
The alternative is to value yourself more than any amount of money and turn the guns, metaphorically speaking, in the other direction. It wasn't God, or some abstract economic climate change, that caused the credit crisis. Actual humans -- often masked as financial institutions -- did that, (and you can find a convenient list of names in Nomi Prins's article in the current issue of Mother Jones.) Most of them, except for a tiny few facing trials, are still high rollers, fattening themselves on the blood and tears of ordinary debtors. I know it's so 1930s, but may I suggest a march on Wall Street?
I agree, but may I suggest that the fact that the guns must (always always necessarily always) be "metaphorical," whereas theirs are not, is why We Always Lose?
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And a special shout-out to the Homeland Security officer now assigned to watch this blog. How's the wife and kids?
Our Homeland Security buddy is far too busy defending America to answer questions such as that. Let's just give wifey a friendly little phone call and inquire ourselves.
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