People talk about Ron Paul as if he were onto something. They're all kooks.
Today I am recalling the man standing in for the Ron Paul Revolution on the radio call-in who felt as if the Feds are poking too much into his private life. What private life? It turned out that he was a convicted felon who did time for GTA in his misspent youth.
The IRS already has everything it needs to know to get money out of you. You file taxes, then they have your name, your kids names, your wife's name, all of your social security numbers, how much money you made, where you live. They have everything they need to get anything they want, but all they really want is your taxes. Well, their taxes. And there's nothing you can do about it. So what privacy are you attempting to protect?
The credit bureaus have everything they need on you. All they want is for you to pay on time. Screw them and they screw you back. They know all they need to know, and all it takes is a seven year slice of your life. What difference does it make?
If you lived in Brazil, in the favela, you wouldn't wear a watch. You don't have a 'regular job' nor do you have a 'regular paycheck'. Nobody is interested in whether or not you pay your bills on time because there is no credit bureau worth having. That's because there isn't a class of landlords for whom you might fill out a rental application. There's no low cost housing, nobody's financing it. That stuff happens in America. People over here need a culture of 'regular job' because it means something - something to the credit bureaus and the investor class who are financing apartment buildings and mortgage instruments and all that borrowing economy. You're not smarter or harder working than the man in the favela. But you have a regular job and an infrastructure of credit that he doesn't have.
What do you Americans have to lose? Nothing. The economy is already paying off the credit bureaus and landlords and mortgage brokers and bankers. Your privacy doesn't mean anything to them. They already get what they want. They have no more reason to ask you any more questions. If the collection agency is calling you at dinner time or on your cellphone - that's as deep as it gets. And you feel guilty why? Because it's affecting your credit rating. You are, after all, keeping your kneecaps.
Nobody cares about you that much.
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