A Debtors Prison 01 18 2025

One:

 So lets say that you lose your home because you can't pay your mortgage debt.

And you become homeless because of that.

Then lets say that you are arrested and imprisoned for vagrancy.

Are you not then in a debtor's prison?

Okay let's say that you are.

Not let's say that someone is favored by a bank.  They are allowed to borrow perhaps 10,000 times the amount of what your mortgage debt was.

They go bankrupt.

Should they not also be in a debtors prison? And shouldn't their sentencing time reflect the amount of debt in comparison to your single home debt and prison time?

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Two:

Perhaps here is a corollary to what I am getting at.  You would expect that the highest paid in our country each have something to teach us?  That each of them has attained all of what might be considered the passage right to manhood?

But what happens when you have millionaire athletes and perhaps rap stars or movie stars with imperfect grammar?  What are we learning from them?  What is there to learn from someone extremely rich who couldn't even learn everything you did?

I had a little more to say about that.  But it is gone with the wind for right now.

© 2025 Thomas Paul Murphy

3. So Republicans have kind of an odd view about justice?  How long before that degrades our country to something like, if there is someone in a debtor's prison, why not let the one that they are in debt to own them?  Kind of like how Republicans like to say the union of states breaking motto, let the states decide?  But in this case, let the wealthy decide how to employ those who owe money to them?  To the point of let the wealthy own them.  Because that is best?  That is the best way to handle that?

Do you kind of feel like your back just became crooked when you read that?

4. Now lets say that you had a President of the United States who was in bed with Russia.  And he decides that to ease our national burden it would be best if prisoners were sent to Siberia.  To freeze to death?

But let me ask you this.  If you become homeless in the winter, zero degrees, in the United States but are not put in prison for vagrancy, what has effectively happened to you?  About the same as if you were released into the middle of Siberia, with just the clothes on your back?

All the while the leadership of this country can't understand why you don't live in a room with actual gold trim, and gold faucets and gold door knobs and gold everything.

Is that what our country is supposed to be about?