In 1833 after decades of controversy, since borrowers owing as little as 60 cents could be held indefinitely in squalid jails until they paid off their debt … let me introduce our contemporary version Debtors Prison Redux.
‘Are there no prisons?”
‘And the Union workhouses. Are they still in operation?’
“The Treadmill and the Poor Law are in full vigour, then?”
Starting at 2:10 Christmas Carol
In an era where the lines have been all but erased between Wall Street and Washington DC it seems the Corporatocracy has no interest in taking a haircut of any size in this debt fueled implosion. Yet annual bonuses equal to 3 or 4 years of wages for most are continually handed out … and the losses ….. are non-existent. Backed by tax payer dollars the theft continues while no investigation or prosecutions are even on the horizon.
Unless… you are one of the peasant debtors …
