This comic reminded me of an old idea I once had… If you were caught and tried for breaking and entering someone’s house and destroying everything in it, I wonder how the judge would feel about your reason being that you wanted to help the economy?
au contraire. you could make it a law, or an exception for the rich and powerful, (they make their own exceptions…) but “joe six-pack” could only pull that off at election time.
Then the banksters hit us with the Econolypse of 2007. Remember the religiously held belief that real estate would appreciate indefinitely? When people would take out outrageous loans because they could always sell and let someone else pay it off? Then came foreclosure blight where houses would sit till the drug addicts noticed, and stripped them bare. Another form of accelerated obsolescence.
Golux: I’m confused about the remark “till the drug addicts noticed, and stripped them bare.” Perhaps there were a few such incidents, but I believe you’ll find that many of the empty housing developments left in the wake of the recession were taken as homes by people who were made homeless by crushing debt. No mere looters, then, but organised squatters taking up residence in buildings which, in many cases, were no longer owned by anyone since whoever funded the development went bankrupt, leaving their assets abandoned.
October 2, 2009
This comic reminded me of an old idea I once had… If you were caught and tried for breaking and entering someone’s house and destroying everything in it, I wonder how the judge would feel about your reason being that you wanted to help the economy?
Hm…I have a feeling it wouldn’t hold water.
December 23, 2010
au contraire. you could make it a law, or an exception for the rich and powerful, (they make their own exceptions…) but “joe six-pack” could only pull that off at election time.
September 19, 2013
Then the banksters hit us with the Econolypse of 2007. Remember the religiously held belief that real estate would appreciate indefinitely? When people would take out outrageous loans because they could always sell and let someone else pay it off? Then came foreclosure blight where houses would sit till the drug addicts noticed, and stripped them bare. Another form of accelerated obsolescence.
June 6, 2014
Golux: I’m confused about the remark “till the drug addicts noticed, and stripped them bare.” Perhaps there were a few such incidents, but I believe you’ll find that many of the empty housing developments left in the wake of the recession were taken as homes by people who were made homeless by crushing debt. No mere looters, then, but organised squatters taking up residence in buildings which, in many cases, were no longer owned by anyone since whoever funded the development went bankrupt, leaving their assets abandoned.
June 6, 2014
Also, sorry to double post, but did you really have to be that guy? ‘Drug addict’ is not an acceptable catch-all term for ‘immoral bastard’.