re: #25 webevintage

And what really sucks will be how many folks will be all “well why not, they are just lazy bums sitting around wasting my money…I bet they are all high too…if only they prayed a bit harder God would bless them like he blessed me.”

The lack of empathy emanating from the right is just so smug and damaging to this country.

I’ve seen a number of stories lately of people being arrested in certain states (Arkansas being one of them) because of some crappy laws that pertain to debts.
And I mean unsecured credit card debts.
Yes, we do still have debtors prisons in this country.
And they comments that accompany one of these is full of “served them right” should have paid their bills” “got what they had coming” without even thinking for a minute that putting people in prison over an unsecured debt (even one that might have a judgment on it) is something that went out when we created this country.

At some point empathy must be replaced with fiscal reality.