RashyNullPlanet

A friend sent me this site this morning: youwalkaway dot com. They advocate walking away from your mortgage obligations:

If you QUALIFY
Your lender WILL NOT be able to call you in attempt to collect!
Your lender WILL NOT be able to collect any deficiency or loss they may receive by you walking away!
You WILL be able to stay in your home for up to 8 months or more without having to pay anything to your lender!
You CAN have the foreclosure REMOVED from your credit!

That site is clear evidence that many people have no idea what promises and obligations are, and even worse, that many people think they can get something for free. A mortgage is a contract, a promise. If a person breaks a promise, you can’t trust anything they say. When someone walks away from a mortgage, someone else is paying for it. Not the bank. Not “the man”. Your neighbors. And don’t ever forget: there ain’t no such thing as a free lunch.

Richard Nikoley writes about the Cannibal Pot.

Those folks are laughing, just as Richard notes, because they think “they’re going to get to feast”.

I think, though, that the only reason they’re able to laugh at all is the fact that they’re so insulated from the brutality.

None of those people would dare to do on their own what they’ve delegated via a vote. None would have the gonads to approach someone else’s employer and demand a portion of everyone’s paycheck. None would dare smash their way into their neighbor’s house and forcibly prevent their neighbor from using some recreational drug. None would forcibly prevent people from gambling.

But many are willing to delegate those actions to someone else via a vote.

Voting insulates them from the brutality of the cannibal pot. They don’t have to get their hands dirty when they vote. Voting lets them leave the dirty work to someone else.

There’s no way around it: voting is delegated coercion. Delegated theft. Delegated brutality.