JULY
11, 2007 --
Hey
American politicians -- have you anything to say about 30.29
percent interest rates on credit cards?
Or are you too busy running for president to notice?
Hey American media -- have you any questions of the presidential
candidates about 30.29 percent interest rates on credit cards,
or of such questions below your radar.
How about this American politicians and media -- s l o w l y people
are realizing that our high gas prices are not helpful to our economic
well-being, as they siphon money to just one economic sector. Do
you think 30.29% credit card rates are helping the economy grow?
Government does not abuse
people. How
about this approach, American politicians and media. It is 15 years
from now and you are well off, but many people are not. Your grandchildren
ask you how you reacted when capitalism got inflicted by the double
meanness whammy from oil companies and banks.
What are you going
to tell them: it was fun to crush people, or will you just brush
them off, with a lie or two?
What if your grandchildren ask how you reconcile what you did to
the middle class and the counsel in Federalist 57 that leaders
should work for the common good? What will you answer --
that the Founding Fathers were a bunch of pre-Marx commies who
did not understand economics?
LPR is honored to report to its clicksters
that it learned recently how credit card badgerers, like some New
York City parking violations people, thrive on schadenfreude. This
writer had been getting morning calls from HSBC and Chase requesting
payment of credit card balances.
The day after remitting payment
at local bank branches, the phone rang before 8.30 a.m. with the
announcement that this was a call to collect a debt.
Those HSBC
and Chase reps apparently had too much fun with their collection
calls to see, first, if payment had been made.
And isn't it interesting that their phone calls ask for us by our
first name, as if we were acquaintances of some duration. Try to
phone them, of course, and see how many menu hoops you have to
jump through to reach a voice -- which, of course, will be artificial
when located.
A few years ago, a book appeared with this title: "The Triumph
of Meanness." LPR has no quarrel with the title, just with
all that it covers, the writer, alas, apparently saw things in
terms of right against left, and not right against wrong.
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That,
sadly, has been the difficulty with the left since November 8,
1994, and this view is now apparent in the call to revive the
Fairness Doctrine to curtail the influence of talk radio.
LPR wonders: if talk radio is so powerful, how did the Democrats gain majorities
in Congress, last election? Seems to LPR that the left in America would like
to open schools of government teaching Mugabeism.
Their
silence on credit card cruelty suggests that they already approve
business schools that advocate usury.
Some quick observations that are not, LPR believes, likely
to be found on Huffington, or even Drudge: There is no such
thing as a Republican Party in the City of New
York.
It is unclear if there is even a Republican Party in New York
state, outside NYC. (Would a Democratic governor of New York
have no hesitation keeping the
Republican leader of the state senate under surveillance if Republicans had
any power in the state (apart from participating in the spoils
system--in some measure?)
Government does not abuse people.
People acting under cloak of governmental authority abuse people. When you
hear the term "bureaucrat" -- just think of this: bully in government. Realization
that the source of woe is a person, not a cog in a machine, tends to lower the
odds, LPR believes.
Concerning
the Bloomberg candidacy: LPR recently mentioned a couple of
horror stories at the hands of Parking Violations to two plain
citizens
of usually pleasant disposition.
On hearing of another's PVB travail, each acknowledged his
and her own experience resulting in their use, each confided,
of language they do not ordinarily express.
LPR has previously suggested that the media ignores the PVB outrages
because of the special treatment given the press.
Accordingly, the press in NYC does not know that there is no
way all the Mayor's money could ever get him elected president.
He would be undone by the question from an elderly, but still
alert, driver concerning his draconian parking fine policies
which are, of course, an alternative method
of regressive taxation.
Oil, banks and NYC itself, have turned our streets quite mean,
indeed. The continued decline in support for President and Congress
tells LPR that the people are ready
to give their support to politicians and media that support right against wrong,
not left against right -- that are representatives, not rulers, that are not
ashamed of our founding legacy of public service in an atmosphere of justice
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