Once a weasel, always a weasel
In biblical times, the tax collectors were universally hated. These days the home mortgage folks should be getting the same treatment.
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Tar and feathering -- the new retro in-thing. Nothing like "circulating vindictive menaces" as Pres. Washington once proclaimed against (see below). And as for tax collectors, you don't have to go all the way back to biblical times: the Whiskey Rebellion (1791-94).
http://www.earlyamerica.com/earlyamerica/milestones/whiskey/
http://www.amazon.com/Whiskey-Rebellion-Washington-Challenged-Sovereignty/dp/0743254902/ref=cm_cmu_pg_t/183-1844176-2449515
Next up: Wall Street bandits
Posted by Tom the Tinker | July 19, 2009 10:46 PM
Yeah! Anyone that can't afford to pay cash just doesn't deserve to own their own home.
Either that, or we can get loans from tofu farmers and unicorn herders.
Or beat drums and dance in circles until the manna drops from heaven.
Posted by John Dunshee | July 21, 2009 1:17 AM
People should have mortgages, John. It's just that the wonderful "free" market that some people worship leads to abominations that we all have to pay to clean up.
Posted by Jack Bog | July 21, 2009 1:19 AM
That ain't the rhetoric, Jack.
Tar 'n Feather? Remember "Burn, Baby, Burn"
Detroit is still suffering from that.
Probably too ancient for most readers.
Posted by John Dunshee | July 21, 2009 1:44 AM