Bill Collectors In America: Picking Up the Pieces

ALL OVER AMERICA, people are being hounded by bill collectors. Mostly, it happens on land line telephones, which may be a major reason why most folks are going straight cell. But they aren't picky. They use any and all means of communication, and tens of millions of us are at deeply indebted risk. But at least they aren't knocking our doors down, and hauling us off to debtors prisons anymore. At least, not yet. But don't hold your breath, and do knock on wood. We really haven't advanced all that much from the middle ages. Let's see now. Your wages can be garnished, of course. Your possessions can be consifiscated. You can be put in prison. Isn't there a popular television show in which car repossessors, necessarily acting like thugs, drive off with people's cars over and over again, one after another, while the people who thought they owned them put on exaggerated dislays of anger? How much longer until the government spies snooping on us and the corporate creditors chasing after our meager money are the same people? Things are already worse than George Orwell or Aldous Huxley could ever have imagined...If you have a low wage job, no health insurance, and no great personal wealth, which probably describes most of us, stay well, and stay out of the hospital and don't count on relatives. Not in America, where relatives are often enstranged. Otherwise, the vultures will descend and circle, and will not depart until the carrion is entirely consumed. America is not a compassionate, caring culture. In america, non profit hospitals demand immediate payment. We all do. But nobody seems able to pay. So its a race to the bottom, making one wonder which will economically crash and burn first: the American government, or the American people. Perhaps our corporate masters will end up having to pick up the pieces, like we have done for them so many times. But they won't be able to put us back together, because, by then, it will be too late.