As Congress is once again about to be stampeded into a disastrous policy by a faith-based Administration that refuses to disappear before it wrecks our lives completely, yet another twist of the knife is being contemplated by our economic masters. They now want (this is no joke!), they really now want to not only take over the toxic mortgage debt generated by a wacky crowd on Wall Street, they now want (this is no joke!) to take over uncollected and probably-uncollectable car loans and credit card debt.
The potential consequences of this latest notion of the frightened little men who have stolen our economic futures are so many, so varied, and so awful, they hardly bear mention on a website that can be accessed by children under 12–whose lives, by the way, are certainly going to be less pleasant because of present doings on The Street and in the Capitol.
Let us thus focus on at least one good thing that may come out of these 18-wheeler dealings: Protection for our right to sleep in our own cars.
You see, just as Congress will almost certainly move to keep people with toxic mortgages in their homes, they will likewise almost certainly move to protect those of us who are obliged to sleep elsewhere–shelters, tents, and yes, cars–to retain at least the latter as a night-time dwelling place.
Let us therefore praise the fine men and women now working so diligently on our behalf in Congress. True, they could put off adjourning for a few weeks to get the massive restructuring of the economy right. But that would be too much to ask folks who know the transcendental importance of their own reelection.
Just let me keep the right to sleep in the old Chevy. Do that for me, dear elected official, and you’ll sure ’nuff get my backing at the polls.